Example sentences of "[adv] much the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firearm of the infantry soldier of World War I was the bolt-action rifle , and the rifles of all the armies were fundamentally much the same . |
| 2 | Well I 've been in the Daily Mail 's office , presumably much the same . |
| 3 | Ah well more or less much the same as it is today . |
| 4 | It was not so much the right hon. Gentleman 's arrogance to which I objected — we are accustomed to that . |
| 5 | With relief he discussed the emigration of the James family with the nuns ; so much the best thing — if there was no chance of a reconciliation — all round . |
| 6 | It is not so much the Western origin of new component technologies as their gestation in the West 's civilian sectors which must pose the most vexing questions for Soviet policy makers and their orthodoxies . |
| 7 | ‘ People do n't use pubs like they used to do and that 's the demise of the country pub , not so much the other things that have been said . |
| 8 | If he had n't rattled her so much the other day , leaving her high and dry to sneak off and join his girlfriend , she might have remembered to tell him about the dratted ledgers . |
| 9 | I shall go even further : my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles . |
| 10 | The influence of all three is perceptible in Nicholas Shakespeare 's first novel , though it is not so much the magical flights of Marquez as Greene 's Catholic mysticism which I found the most intriguing . |
| 11 | Strange that this bird sits there and sings While we must only sit and plan Who are so much the higher things — The murder of our fellow man … |
| 12 | It may be that what we are protecting children from is not so much the awful consequences of their ignorant decisions but of the burden of responsibility for those decisions which children are not yet ready to bear and which , for entirely non-political reasons , we can not choose to impose upon them . |
| 13 | Not so much the screaming figures . |
| 14 | It is entirely possible to think that if ‘ literary ’ and ‘ aesthetic ’ are words that go naturally with ‘ American ’ but not with ‘ English ’ , so much the worse for the English . |
| 15 | The statement ‘ everyone has a right to medical care adequate to his health and well-being ’ is , in the Universal Declaration , tantamount to the highwayman 's ‘ stand and deliver ’ : if this right is not realisable within a society , it must be realised by compulsory redistribution and reorganisation as between societies , and if it is still impracticable even by compulsion on an international scale , so much the worse for the international community ! |
| 16 | He had an irrepressible tendency to send up his interviewers : if they were daft enough to believe it — so much the worse for them . |
| 17 | If it freezes , a collar of ice is then so much the worse , so it is a wise precaution to go round your roses after windy conditions and tread firm and close out any ‘ funnels ’ — but of course the danger to taller bushes can be much reduced by shortening sail . |
| 18 | If economic agents do not arrive at the solutions indicated by the economic model ( or if foreign policy decision-makers do not choose the strategies recommended by game theory ) , that is , one might say , so much the worse for the agents . |
| 19 | But if bureaucrats turn out not to organize and act as in the model , then that is so much the worse for the model . |
| 20 | The premise behind the ability to waive is that it is only the individual who is concerned , and thus if he ‘ chooses ’ to ignore the interest then so much the worse for him . |
| 21 | If for instance , Hanslick found it impossible to take his libretti seriously as poetry , so much the worse for Hanslick . |
| 22 | If his subjects were unwilling to accept the progress and enlightenment he offered , so much the worse for them . |
| 23 | So much the worse for human beings ? |
| 24 | So much the worse for computers ? |
| 25 | ‘ So much the worse , I would have wished him to see his township burn . |
| 26 | The problem was not so much the offensive content of the material , since there was no one who was not familiar with it . |
| 27 | God not so much the Prime Mover we can do without him — but the God who understands what 's going on . |
| 28 | What mattered to Marx and Engels was therefore not so much the specific history which had produced these concepts , but the fact that they had a history at all , that the concepts were dependent on the type of society and economy in which they occurred . |
| 29 | Heavy industry produced not so much the industrial region as such as the company town , in which the fate of men and women depended on the fortunes and goodwill of a single master , behind whom stood the force of law and state power , which regarded his authority as necessary and beneficial . |
| 30 | Now Cranston had seen decapitated heads , be they of murdered taverner or some lord executed on Tower Hill , but this was truly gruesome ; it was not so much the half-closed eyes and still blood-dripping neck but the mouth forced open and , thrust inside , the mangled remains of the dead merchant 's genitals . |