Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] much a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blyth was historically a separate place from Tyneside , although very much a part of the North East Coast . |
| 2 | Although very much a townsman , Eliot was , like G. K. Chesterton , a great advocate of country life , and he shared the attitude of many townsmen that most other people ought to live in the country . |
| 3 | In addition , our use of our mother tongue is often so automatic and habitual , and so much a part of our individual and social identity , that help is needed to stand back and reflect on aspects of language with some degree of objectivity . |
| 4 | It became clear that travelling was important to Morris and so much an inspiration that if he ever felt bored at home or lacking in inspiration he just packed a suitcase and got on the nearest train to visit someone . |
| 5 | It became clear that travelling was important to Morris and so much an inspiration that if he ever felt bored at home or lacking in inspiration he just packed a suitcase and got on the nearest train to visit someone . |
| 6 | Our breath is moist and our sweat evaporates ; one person ‘ produces ’ a quarter of a litre of water during eight hours of sleep , and as much a litre and a half during an active day . |
| 7 | Gloucestershire will go into 1990 , hoping for improved results on the field , with a new resolve — and very much a new look . |
| 8 | Inputs , such as , for example , a ‘ corporate capability' , are often common to more than one offering , and very much a management concern . |
| 9 | He 's a good boy , and very much a boy . |
| 10 | This is an attractive and historic place , and very much a river town , having formed around the point where two dynamic Pyrenean torrents , the Gave d'Aspe from high up on the Col du Somport , and the Gave d'Ossau from even higher up on the ruggedly distinctive Pic du Midi d'Ossau , flow together . |
| 11 | Drucker outlines the variety of innovative activity , arguing that ‘ innovation is work rather than genius ’ and very much a matter of discipline . |
| 12 | Recalling going into Kyle , while I was at Stromefirry-nofirry , and remembering that nightmare vision of the burned-black man after the blevey — Sir Rufus with his black bones , black nails , black wood and his black jaw hinged back and very much a dental-records job — and thinking , How did they identify Andy ? |
| 13 | The underlying approach was still remarkably uncritical and very much a matter of assertion and appeal to reason , the message couched in fairly bland terms and over-reliant on a concept of progress from a philistine past . |
| 14 | He was a very earnest , very intelligent gentleman — and very much a gentleman , whom I never thought of as particularly ambitious . |
| 15 | One died leaving a small son , the other is back at work but very much a shadow of his former self . |
| 16 | It felt relaxed , comfortable , but very much a ‘ man 's world ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ An Essay on Woman ’ , though very much a poem of protest against the injustices which women suffer , offers no simple solutions . |
| 18 | Charlotte Brunsdon 's excellent collection Films for Women ( 1986 ) and E. Deirdre Pribram 's equally useful Female Spectators ( 1988 ) both emphasise the heterogeneity of female spectatorship , whilst at the same time seeing film-viewing as very much a social practice rather than something which individuals undergo , passively , in the dark . |
| 19 | The CIA commented somewhat tentatively at first on Harold Wilson , the prime minister , describing him as very much a loner in British politics . |
| 20 | She seems happiest in the country with her powerfully romantic interpretations of a Path through the Trees Down a Lane in Winter which she regards as very much a Traveller 's Joy . |
| 21 | Tandem 's move reinforces current thinking which sees microkernel system software as very much an up and coming trend across the industry . |