Example sentences of "[vb infin] much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it would adapt much faster than a legal body . |
| 2 | But if widowhood is such a double shock for many women , why do widows survive much longer than widowers ? |
| 3 | An advantage of this system is that work can commence much earlier than in the traditional system because much of the design work will take place at the same time as the actual construction . |
| 4 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't need it but I 'll do much better than that . |
| 6 | Mr G Douglas Vaisey also suggests that others should start setting the comps : ‘ I 'm sure we [ we ? ] can do much better than Katie Mallett . ’ |
| 7 | By 1939 Europe could meet her own needs of agricultural products only in olive oil and wine ; in 1880 she could still do much better than this . |
| 8 | Even if a business was very efficient , he said , it was difficult to generate gross margins of more than 28% , whereas an efficient company in the fast-growing network market could do much better than that . |
| 9 | For them to develop properly they need guidance and a good example , and you ca n't do much better than have somebody like Fergie in your setup — somebody who has done and seen it all . ’ |
| 10 | Despite all their expectations ( and ample campaign funds ) they did not do much better than the GCP in 1954 . |
| 11 | The simple mouse-and-icons approach means putting together new forms or reports ought to be a doddle ; and for functions like queries or browsing , you ca n't do much better than the GUI . |
| 12 | The person who creates a crisis in a relationship which is not going well such that the two part company and he or she is able to establish a more suitable and rewarding partnership may do much better than the person who avoids crises and settles for a far from ideal partner . |
| 13 | Trained keyboard users can type much faster than humans write by hand , but speech is much faster than either of these for the majority of people . |
| 14 | Even if churches planted start very small , they can still grow much faster than larger ones . |
| 15 | An intensive conditioner will work much better if you cover hair with a polythene bag after applying to seal in body heat . |
| 16 | The use of the ‘ Fax Box and Jargon Box ’ is good and the general attempt to imitate the Windows desktop is a good idea but would work much better if less cluttered . |
| 17 | " I would work much harder if you came now and then so that I could tell you of my progress . " |
| 18 | ‘ We 're set for the end of the century , ’ he says , ‘ but you ca n't look much further than that , can you ? ’ |
| 19 | ( This process , incidentally , may begin much earlier than many secondary teachers suppose . |
| 20 | In any event , in colonial Vietnam reformists did not fare much better than revolutionaries . |
| 21 | February the twenty eighth , end of February , yeah , my Lord so of course erm staying the counterclaim as a set off would n't really progress much further because after eighty five , I mean that 's simply a subsidiary way in which the defence arises , article eighty five arises primarily because we say underlying the arrangements are void and you 're enforcing something , which is void and you ca n't do it , that 's not a set off claim , but your Lordship I mean , my Lord that 's why that does n't really get them any further , my Lord they 've always had outstanding , which they 've never pursued er for order fourteen so they can always ti try as they said they will for the other erm , erm preemptive attacks upon us |
| 22 | The most sceptical of sceptics will immediately move much faster than his scepticism should allow . |
| 23 | things would not move much further until they were given a determined push , and MT Crosland was to do just that . |
| 24 | Due to the very nature of vigilance , the tests to measure it must take much longer than is required for the other tests above . |
| 25 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG now looks as if it is right down there in the corporate basket case category : after some three years of substantial losses , Siemens AG chairman Heinrich von Pierer now says that an effort is being made to ensure that its return to profit ‘ does n't take much longer than three years ; ’ its biggest problem is that the pain of customers starting to go stone cold on mainframes has scarcely begun yet in Germany . |
| 26 | He was taken out of the garden at put on trial , all the others were gathered together swiftly Normally a Jewish trial would take much longer than this . |
| 27 | I could go much faster than they could . |
| 28 | Hypnosis , however , can go much further than just improving the patient 's self-image . |
| 29 | So the divorce of sex from reproduction which is erm a very common and even fashionable view in the later twentieth century and of course is one very much facilitated by modern birth control technology and things like that this , this divorce of sex and reproduction is in a way you could say a characteristically male way of looking at things if the male 's er contribution to offspring does n't go much further than the initial fertilization . |
| 30 | The definition implies that the tendency must go much further than merely shocking or disgusting readers . |