Example sentences of "[noun sg] much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was accustomed to exercise for , each morning for the past two weeks , Sharpe had saddled her at three o'clock , then ridden her south to watch the dawn break over the Sambre valley , but this morning , hearing the crackle of musketry to the east , he had ridden the mare much further than usual . |
| 2 | A Cambridge mathematician , Michael Behrend , derived an ingenious formula which shows that sites will align by change much more than one would expect . |
| 3 | The classic response to this situation is to take from the rich and to give to the poor on the grounds that the poor spend their money much faster than the rich . |
| 4 | It is impossible to describe in a few words , but one thing that many knitters do not realise is that it can be worked from either left or right and that some people find one side much easier than the other ( not necessarily related to whether you are right or left handed either ! ) . |
| 5 | It was suggested that the authorities tried to manipulate aggregate demand — primarily through fiscal policy — in order to achieve their desired combination of economic objectives but , because of the lags mentioned earlier , such policies exerted their full effect much later when economic conditions had changed as a result of the fluctuations in the business cycle . |
| 6 | A figure much better than the 100,000-plus constantly bandied about by some financial commentators . |
| 7 | The revenue was never enough for this , and the Company began declining into bankruptcy much faster than before . |
| 8 | c The past 3 years have destroyed the myth that elderly dementing people can not play a role in the running of a nursing home — we have seen even severe Alzheimer residents respond to normalization programme and reality orientation work and enjoy it and , indeed , remain at a plateau much longer than they would otherwise have done ( highly subjective comment , I know ) . |
| 9 | It seems to me that all of us in this chamber have at one time or another , wanted to actually spend money erm it comes programme of committees , I do n't think it 's behoved upon me at the moment to transgress on what programme committees are actually er but to predict exactly where they will want their expenditure to go but I do know is that there is a huge backlog of member generated aspirations in terms of the environmental improvements , traffic calming facilities , particulary which I suspect were actually generated mildly in excess of the figures which we have before us tonight which is why we clearly leave open that further bids against capital can be made in the course of the next three years , erm which will be assessed against the overall financial position of the council and I think the council much more than that . |
| 10 | He has summed up the issue much better than I could . |
| 11 | To your numerous enquiries , I must answer rather briefly , for I have so bad a cold as to be half blind : add to which so bad a cough & sore throat , that if they do nt go I shall be in town much sooner than I expected … my eyes are so sadly worse , that no bird under an Ostrich shall I soon be able to do . |
| 12 | Yet further fumblings by Mr Major could haul Mr Clarke to the top job much earlier than that ‘ one more year ’ which , by Tory consensus , is now Mr Major 's time-limit for proving he is the right man to lead the country . |
| 13 | He became the fourth of the afternoon to be caught behind off one which left him , this time off Watson , who did the stock-bowler 's job much better than Pringle and in Christchurch . |
| 14 | In Britain , however , because of ministerial responsibility and because of the suspicion that the appropriate ministry could do the job much better than a new , inexperienced board ( which usually has a lower calibre of staff ) , the ministries concerned have their own sections on tourism , forestry and the countryside which go over everything the board in question proposes , giving authorizations , suggestions or exercising a veto . |
| 15 | This kick may be very fast , but it can be detected by an opponent much earlier than many other kicks in karate . |
| 16 | We have understood this crucial point much longer than most of our colleagues , who tend to think in terms of the impact of nature on society , or the reverse . |
| 17 | I could prove my point much better if I kept on , I 'm determined , so I kept on . |
| 18 | Unlike the other actors — they 'd been in the business much longer than I had — I had no idea what work I could get . |
| 19 | If that kind of thing had happened very often , Athens would have lost the war much sooner than she did . |
| 20 | The growth of German industry , the flight from the land , the Ostflucht and the ending of serfdom had all broken the bonds of the Prussian feudal system ; had caused a massive upheaval in terms of social and geographical mobility ; had caused a radical change and development in German class- and national consciousness , and had created problems of identity deep within the German consciousness , precisely because they took place much later than in the west European nations . |
| 21 | If Father were to hear them he 'd whip me out of that place much quicker than he pushed me in , I can tell you . |
| 22 | Good windsurfing boots or shoes have soft rubber soles so your grip will be far better , and the materials used in them mean that they can withstand use in water much better than running shoes . |
| 23 | Simpson could see that they knew each other much better than he 'd presumed . |
| 24 | Nicklaus , now 52 , was one of 12 players to break 70 with a 69 , a score matched by not only Bernhard Langer and Steve Richardson , of the Europeans , but also Woosnam , who began his defence of the title much better than he had expected . |
| 25 | When I was a young conductor in Germany it was usual to conduct the finale much slower than we hear it nowadays . |
| 26 | Individual contact much more than organisation to organisation is a way barriers between the sectors are broken down , and a way we can understand each other 's motives and ideals . |
| 27 | Not a bit of it — do not know if W. J. Jakimiuk who was responsible for the Chipmunk 's lovely qualities also devised the Beaver 's agile handling , but I should not be surprised if he did , for it flies like a smaller aeroplane , with light forces and a roll-rate much better than that long high-aspect-ratio wing might suggest . |
| 28 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 29 | The Matchplay 's unique ‘ needlepunch ’ construction gives surface texture which , claims Anglian and Midland , makes sand infilling much easier than for other products . |
| 30 | The young man lying there was short of stature , blond , and though he had been in the ground much longer than Erceldoun the body , though swollen and green-tinged , had hardly begun to decompose . |