Example sentences of "[to-vb] much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eventual pensions received by women who participated in these inter-war schemes would have reflected their low and unequal pay as well as conditions of service which typically required women to retire much earlier than men , especially in private sector employment . |
| 2 | One would however have to go much further than this . |
| 3 | It was a sign that Ceauşescu intended to go much further than Dej in rehabilitating the Romanian past and distancing the Communist regime from the original Soviet model , at least so far as public presentation went . |
| 4 | For most companies , the practice in the UK is to report much sooner than the publication period permits . |
| 5 | This system allows me to communicate much better than I could before . |
| 6 | They 'd have to try much harder than this . |
| 7 | My personal preference and practice — but it has to be supported by very fertile conditions — is to prune much harder than many think that a rose can stand ( remember , do n't be afraid of the knife , to three or four buds as necessary to find the outward pointing direction from the previous years prune . |
| 8 | Roger Bootle , chief economist at the Midland Bank , argues that it will be difficult for Britain to grow much faster than its recession-hit EC neighbours . |
| 9 | My advice to other mums , though , is start as early as possible going to groups , like NCT New Mums , so he learns to socialise much earlier than my son did . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've wanted to do much better than I 've done . |
| 11 | However , Lambarde 's marriage to Sylvestre was not to last much longer than his first , for after bearing him four children she died two weeks after the birth of twins on the 1st September 1587 , scarcely 4 years after marrying him . |
| 12 | Although we found the geese , the nests were long deserted and the large creches of goslings were big enough to run much faster than we could . |
| 13 | Being made of metal , often precious metal , coins have tended to survive much better than less durable objects . |
| 14 | Calm water : Mushroom anemones seem to fare much better if placed in quiet areas of the tank , where the current is n't strong enough to actually move the disc of the polyp . |
| 15 | The Director of Naval Intelligence , Rear Admiral John Inglis , was particularly anxious to know more about the Ordzhonikidze 's propeller design since the ship was able to travel much faster than British naval experts had calculated . |
| 16 | This effect occurs in practically any room , but it is more noticeable in concert halls or other large rooms , where the indirect sounds have to travel much further than the direct sounds , and are therefore delayed by a much greater amount . |
| 17 | In any case , the continuation of the war was forcing the revolution to dig much deeper than the topsoil of reforms . |
| 18 | In the 1970s it was only a curiosity but around 1980 it had a renaissance when people discovered that in certain complicated molecules , involving both deuterium and tritium , the presence of a muon caused fusion to occur much faster than had been previously thought possible . |