Example sentences of "[be] much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sometimes ( no , often ) feel that you are much more than eighteen months older than me . |
| 2 | They are much more than just quaint old fashioned words . |
| 3 | As the program time needed to send each step command is likely to be much less than 0.1 ms the processor has spare capacity for other tasks . |
| 4 | The most that a strategy can realistically hope to win in an average one of its 1 5 pairings can not be much more than 600 points . |
| 5 | The most that a strategy can realistically hope to win in an average one of its 15 pairings can not be much more than 600 points . |
| 6 | " It ca n't be much more than eleven , " said Alice . |
| 7 | It may not be much more than forty per cent of the voters , leaving the non-voters and the remaining sixty per cent of those who took part in the election to be governed by an administration which is not of their choosing . |
| 8 | Post-Darwinian geologists had assigned vast tracts of time for the operations of forces still believed by us to have shaped the Earth ; but they were challenged on the grounds that thermodynamics could demonstrate that the Sun and the Earth could not be much more than fifty million years old . |
| 9 | The cathedral was constructed in the form of a T , the horizontal limb being much longer than the vertical , stretching away into the endless dark . |
| 10 | Nearly all of Dad 's acquaintances were called ‘ Johnny ’ , this being much easier than having to remember every man 's christian name . |
| 11 | Cos in a very profound sense this is true , and I was so glad that it was I think a very serious part of the flow of Dr Stuart 's report that he mentioned that the er s sense of the ministry of the whole people of God as being much more than a distant objective for us , but something of absolutely essential , vital importance to the whole life and service and outreach of the church . |
| 12 | In fact , as Christmas has been disappointing here I ca n't really foresee this year being much better than 1992 . ’ |
| 13 | The weather , being much better than expected , allowed us to take a gentle stroll and some light refreshment . |
| 14 | Our most obvious support is through cash donations , but often it 's much more than that . |
| 15 | Do n't think it 's much more than that . |
| 16 | The amount of time , officer time taken to process an application for a modification to an existing permission is still substantial and in some cases can be even more than that per a new proposal , but in those circumstances , and this is just by way of illustration because the the actual fee regime is , is very variable , by way of illustration the fee chargeable for a a , a modification is much less than for the application as a whole er f for , for the er er working as a whole . |
| 17 | In general , this is a general point , the ionic selectivity of such channels is much less than for voltage gated channels . |
| 18 | While the government later indicated that it had merely given drafting assistance , it is abundantly clear that its influence on the Bill was much more than one would normally associate with drafting assistance . |