Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | will only come much nearer when male doctors |
| 3 | Now the illusion is well and truly shattered and the only reason the share price has not plunged much further than it has is the hope that some brave soul will put the group out of its misery with a takeover . |
| 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 | Despite all their expectations ( and ample campaign funds ) they did not do much better than the GCP in 1954 . |
| 6 | things would not move much further until they were given a determined push , and MT Crosland was to do just that . |
| 7 | In any event , in colonial Vietnam reformists did not fare much better than revolutionaries . |
| 8 | You 've already stayed much later than you said . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | NORWICH need to find their touch in front of goal or their Premier League lead might not last much longer than the New Year celebrations . |
| 11 | His ‘ vulgarity ’ did not extend much further than a quotation from Dryden , but he spoke with gusto and good humour . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Even if churches planted start very small , they can still grow much faster than larger ones . |
| 14 | It is unfortunately true that however good your routefinding , long rock descents usually take much longer than you expect . |
| 15 | The implication here is , that a man desists from killing animals out of fear that he may be killing a reincarnated soul , but while it may be possible to draw that conclusion , the principle of identity clearly goes much deeper than that , and in fact it could be said to contradict Tillich 's suggestion since that is no more than enlightened self-interest . |
| 16 | Nicholas Cruz though goes much further than that . |
| 17 | Nicholas Cruz though goes much further than that . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | In the spring parliament of 1340 the commons offered a grant of tax subject to conditions which now went much further than the concessions they had sought in the previous year and which were reminiscent of the concerns of the Ordainers in 1310–11 . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're set for the end of the century , ’ he says , ‘ but you ca n't look much further than that , can you ? ’ |
| 23 | The most sceptical of sceptics will immediately move much faster than his scepticism should allow . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But because they have not reached agreement with the Press Association who supply newspapers with the racecards , it wo n't reach much further than racecourse punters who buy an official card . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Well , I finally got Miguel to talk to them about it and it turns out the reason there are n't any old folk around is because they do n't live much longer than about 35 . |
| 28 | But green campaigns directed at the handling of solid waste sometimes go much further than is justified by the need to protect health , or even to prevent litter or damage to the landscape . |
| 29 | In their different ways all the theorists discussed earlier in this chapter offer answers to this question , and all thereby come much closer than Halliday 's minimalist position to the generally recognized objectives of literary study . |
| 30 | certainly going much further than they did , do n't quite know how far you would go |