Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] [adv] much " in BNC.

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1 Yet it is this policy making , often particularly that which occurs at the highest level , that receives very much more attention .
2 Essential to this is making the measurement and reporting of performance against plan meaningful — and that goes as much for the board as the managers .
3 The measure of that lies as much in the minor elements as in the headline-grabbing reforms of taxation and expenditure policy .
4 This has as much to do with the aural texture of guitar-based rock as with funk or soul , and their records often fail to gain airplay on rap specialist radio shows .
5 This places too much burden on others .
6 This owes as much to the country 's past success as to the ruling party 's new tact .
7 This owes as much to the location of the ring , as to the size of the stones : given the view across the countryside , with nearby lower hills , and distant smooth green fields , a full moon over Strichen will have conveyed powerful mystery .
8 If it is felt that this smacks too much of the ‘ green shield stamp ’ approach , it should be realized that it is intended that the scheme will operate with a substantial element of vocational and tutorial guidance using specialized staff .
9 AD 695 that travellers from afar , or foreigners , are instructed to shout or blow a horn before leaving a road , to avoid being treated as a thief or worse ; this says as much about the controls placed on the English population as the desire to protect foreigners .
10 This says as much to me as any artfully contrived moussette .
11 This depends very much upon the individual , but peer-group support is often invaluable .
12 To unlock this requires as much knowledge of the Vedas , the ancient holy books of the Hindus , as The Satanic Verses does of the Koran .
13 This applies as much to the terminally ill patient as to any other .
14 This applies as much to business organizations as it does to public sector organizations .
15 This applies as much to external users of the information as it does to internal users .
16 This implies that much of the geographer 's hydrological endeavour is directed not towards the solution of a specific hydrological problem but towards a more complete understanding of the landscape …
17 Apparently none of this means too much to the East Germans at the moment , but we 're sure it 's just another barrier that they 'll soon surmount .
18 Since infinitive clauses are generally non-factive , this indicates how much of James 's psychological web is woven out of possibilities and hypotheses , rather than known facts .
19 This determines how much money , time and effort should be spent to bring them to acceptable levels .
20 Golding and Middleton argued that the " focusing of moral outrage on items like this does as much to create concern as to reflect it . "
21 This poses as much of a challenge for a future Labour government bent on reform as for Kenneth Clarke and his colleagues .
22 This proves too much .
23 This suggests as much as a triple purpose in Kant 's analysis of our concern for animals .
24 None of this comes as much surprise to sausage supremo Bill O'Hagan .
25 That depends how much of a determinist you are
26 Alas that the RIBA 's garden design book had taken away garden architecture , for that encapsulates so much characteristic of the Regency .
27 That shows how much damage could be wrought on parts of the planet .
28 That shows how much energy is available , and it is very attractive to try and harness this , but since the turn of the century there have been over a hundred patented devices to extract energy from the waves , but we still do n't have a single commercial one operating .
29 Oh it er oh it used to take it all depends how much they gave her to do you see .
30 It might be two or three shillings perhaps five shillings , it all depends how much your you got done .
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