Example sentences of "[vb pp] much [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pricing restraints are treated much more harshly than non-price restraints . |
| 2 | According to the World Bank , the proportion of Thais living below the poverty line fell from 59% in 1960 to 26% in 1986 and , with the three years of double-digit economic growth that followed , must have fallen much further since . |
| 3 | Projects of the International Chamber of Commerce can usually be completed much more quickly , since not only are they less formal but they are not legal instruments in themselves , simply rules or trade terms incorporated by contract , so that the legal issues are de-emphasized and , indeed , the product is primarily the work of non-lawyers . |
| 4 | I would see the South as having developed much more quickly and differently than the North . |
| 5 | Hobhouse already adumbrated the idea of a welfare state , which was developed much more fully by Marshall ( 1950 ) , who defined citizenship as the possession of civil , political and social rights , the last of these being most fully attained in the twentieth-century industrial societies which had embarked upon the construction of comprehensive systems of public provision , including a national health service , more generous and accessible educational facilities , and greatly extended social security . |
| 6 | But colonialism , the tensions caused by a feudal economy 's reaction to capitalism and finally the effects of capitalism itself have all been imposed on a social structure which can be traced much further back . |
| 7 | He was rock hard , fully aroused beneath the rough denim of his bermudas , and she froze , beginning to struggle in nameless fear … completely new emotions were being aroused much too fast . |
| 8 | In stressing the challenges that face us in health and safety it is not to ignore the environmental challenge however we recognize it needs to be considered much more widely so that our resources can be most effectively targeted . |
| 9 | It was true , of course , that property was dispersed much more widely than in Europe . |
| 10 | compensation for suspected cases instead of being dilatory for 18 months , the problem would have been contained much more quickly . |
| 11 | The moulded plasterwork of the walls was probably original , but the shining parquet floor had clearly been added much more recently and gave the room a stark , functional look . |
| 12 | A system can be designed much more economically if it can be assumed that skilled personnel are available to control and take care of it . |
| 13 | One , the general public , can really only be reached by direct advertising in the media — the other , the ‘ gate-keepers , ’ those who work in the social field and in advice agencies , need to be approached much more selectively . |
| 14 | Dividend pay-outs are much lower in Japan and Germany than in Britain and America , but this is not the only or even the main source of returns to shareholders : they receive capital gains ( indeed they prefer them in Japan , where dividends are taxed much more heavily than capital gains ) and , especially in Japan , gain business advantages through shareholdings in customers or suppliers , for instance . |
| 15 | All of these matters are embraced much more enthusiastically in the Supplement than they were in the original design bulletin . |
| 16 | Such a policy could be applied much more effectively to colonial territories , where British control of trade and payments was well grounded . |
| 17 | ( see fig 7 ) This can be applied much more easily because it is not rigidly defined in the way that Burgess ' model is . |
| 18 | This analytical structure can be applied much more widely , including the design of administrative structures ; to think systematically and rationally about an educational system that has grown up ( as we saw ) in a wholly irrational and unplanned way can have disturbing and revolutionary effects . |
| 19 | Grain prices in the last five years of Elizabeth 's reign were 75 per cent higher than in the first five years ; but wages and industrial prices had risen much less steeply . |
| 20 | Since the stock of dinar assets held by households has risen much more slowly than this , the proportion of household assets held in foreign exchange accounts has steadily grown : while in 1980 this proportion was less than 40 per cent , by the end of 1986 it had reached nearly 70 per cent . |
| 21 | In the fifties and early sixties the cost of imports had risen much more slowly than prices inside the advanced countries . |
| 22 | A side-effect of the right of citizens to make foreign exchange deposits has been that , as inflation has continued and accelerated , the dinar value of these deposits has grown much more rapidly than the value of dinar assets held by households . |
| 23 | Most have either grown much more rapidly , or they have declined significantly . |
| 24 | It has followed the pattern that was expected , says Thomas , though has grown much more quickly . |
| 25 | If wages had not risen , most of this scrapping would not have happened and productivity would have grown much less quickly than it did . |
| 26 | But Gilliland found that the real temperature record could be matched much more closely by adding a third factor to the calculations : varying solar heat output tied to the 76-year cycle of variations in solar size ( Climatic Change , vol 4 , p I 1 1 ) . |
| 27 | aspirants had been , in a sense , responsible for securing , and which could and should be made much more widely available . |
| 28 | The computerised registration systems being introduced into some schools will allow sophisticated analyses of attendance patterns to be made much more quickly . |
| 29 | But could their dramatic re-building have been done much more cheaply ? |
| 30 | I think that maybe you should have done much more actually , but I I have n't argued because he 's so . |