Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] much [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blyth was historically a separate place from Tyneside , although very much a part of the North East Coast . |
| 2 | Although very much a townsman , Eliot was , like G. K. Chesterton , a great advocate of country life , and he shared the attitude of many townsmen that most other people ought to live in the country . |
| 3 | ‘ Our punters , although very much the suit and tie brigade , do like a good pint . |
| 4 | Although very much the ‘ poor commons ’ paying for the most part a 5 per cent tax on their goods , they were anything but an undifferentiated whole . |
| 5 | Though so much the better if she did . |
| 6 | From this point of view , the liberal-democratic British constitution is applauded as pretty much the best in the world and so no case is made for constitutional reconstruction . |
| 7 | ‘ An Essay on Woman ’ , though very much a poem of protest against the injustices which women suffer , offers no simple solutions . |
| 8 | Charlotte Brunsdon 's excellent collection Films for Women ( 1986 ) and E. Deirdre Pribram 's equally useful Female Spectators ( 1988 ) both emphasise the heterogeneity of female spectatorship , whilst at the same time seeing film-viewing as very much a social practice rather than something which individuals undergo , passively , in the dark . |
| 9 | The CIA commented somewhat tentatively at first on Harold Wilson , the prime minister , describing him as very much a loner in British politics . |
| 10 | She seems happiest in the country with her powerfully romantic interpretations of a Path through the Trees Down a Lane in Winter which she regards as very much a Traveller 's Joy . |
| 11 | ‘ Joe ’ Burke was regarded in Australia as very much the English gentleman . |
| 12 | Tandem 's move reinforces current thinking which sees microkernel system software as very much an up and coming trend across the industry . |