Example sentences of "[is] [verb] much [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Caught here by Peter Chick on September 11 , despite its age it is faring much better than the much younger , but cocooned , Citation executive jet behind !
2 Gloucestershire is faring much better than many other parts of England .
3 For most companies , the practice in the UK is to report much sooner than the publication period permits .
4 Finally , the distinction between health and social care is proving much less clear in practice than in concept , and long running boundary disputes between agencies could erupt unless the problem is considered specifically in joint planning forums .
5 To use genetic engineering techniques to produce paclitaxel , the genes for each of these enzymes would be needed and this is considered much too complex .
6 Sailing is becoming much more popular in the UK and from the USA comes a warning about personal standards of responsibility while enjoying water-related recreation .
7 ‘ There is a lot of pressure from everyone , and it is becoming much more serious now , ’ she admitted , while fighting back her tears .
8 Once this condition is reached , say with potential difference , balance is approached much better by adjusting the quadrature component to reach a new range to that corresponds to magnitudes of potential differences indistinguishable from some new much lower minimum .
9 Others look for evidence of rituals and declare that ritualistic and satanic abuse is happening much more often than most people are prepared to believe .
10 When multi-track sound mixing is being carried out it is necessary to cue the various tracks in and out to a precisely laid-down programme , a task which is made much easier by reference to a ‘ dope-sheet ’ .
11 In the decentralizing authority the exercise of that influence is made much easier by the offer of participant status in the administration and development of local policy .
12 If members of the public generally or of a section of the public share an interest which has been interfered with by government action , the protection of that interest by court action is made much easier if one person can bring an action as representative of a large number of people .
13 He notes that successful collusion requires communication between the firms and that this is made much easier if they are able to exchange information about prices , outputs , and costs .
14 Risk management is made much easier where there is a quality–based culture which emphasises individual responsibility and ownership of problems , and where an atmosphere of ‘ constructive intolerance ’ of avoidable risks has been established .
15 If the Minoan deities merged as this evidence suggests , reliable identification is made much more difficult .
16 However , its task is made much more difficult by the fact that derogations granted to the Welsh water authority allow it to pump raw sewage into both those rivers .
17 If plant and animal production is made much more efficient in its use of resources , food surpluses could remain a recurring problem , certainly in the short term .
18 Since the input and output of each component is defined ( though not constrained ) by the Chart data structure , such independent design and interfacing is made much more simple .
19 The disparity between the revenue raised by the BBC in Scotland and the resources allocated by London to Scotland , reported today , highlights just how crucial is the debate over the BBC 's charter and how vital it is that it is made much more prominent in Scottish life .
20 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 .
21 ‘ XYZ ’ is rooted much further back down the racks of dog-eared discs in the second-hand shops where Moose once worked , back to C&W , maverick balladeers and songwriters like Jim Webb , Lee Hazelwood , Gram Parsons and Fred Neil ( whose ‘ Everybody 's Talkin' ’ gets charmingly worked over here ) rather than soundscapers .
22 In mammals , the pineal is buried much deeper in the skull .
23 THe local area network business is growing much more quickly than the PC industry as a whole .
24 The student population at polytechnics is growing much faster than that of universities .
25 Use a seven point scale where 1 would indicate that the driver is going much too slowly and 7 would indicate that the driver is going much too fast .
26 Use a seven point scale where 1 would indicate that the driver is going much too slowly and 7 would indicate that the driver is going much too fast .
27 But since reorganization it 's become much more diverse and we 're expected to do a lot more different things . ’
28 I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay .
29 The slight variation of the longitudinal velocity in Fig. 21.19(b) , as indicated by the spacing of dye patches , implies that fluid close to the wall is moving much faster than average .
30 There is a much greater homogeneity and community of interest and value systems about the Western European states which are parties to the convention than is the case with the world community generally ; it is possible to prescribe with much greater precision and consistency the standards sought to be attained and , once attained , their observance is rendered much more likely , even without special enforcement procedures , by the social and economic interdependence and intercourse with prevails in Western European society as compared with the larger world community .
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