Example sentences of "[adv] much [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But here again the knowledge is so practical , so much preconditioned by behaviour , that it can be taught and is taught mainly by doing what they are told to do on particular occasions and by not being allowed to do or to touch certain things that are always within their experience . |
| 2 | Our bondage to society is not so much established by conquest as by collusion … we are entrapped by our own social nature . |
| 3 | Sandy was so much taken by surprise that her sickness was forgotten . |
| 4 | The idea now under consideration , that we take effects to be probable events , is announced or expounded but not much supported by argument . |
| 5 | Upstate city-dwelling environmentalists are not much welcomed by conservative and strongly Mormon southerners who have mined , logged and ranched the land for decades . |
| 6 | In conclusion , despite all that has been said , it must be emphasised that attitudes are as much affected by reality as affecting reality . |
| 7 | But it is worth noting that even in China , the buyer of licenses is as much motivated by profit as is the copyright owner . |
| 8 | So far much hampered by lack of money and staff about 1.5 million catalogue entries have been completed and 2,665,000 photographs produced . |
| 9 | If we look at industrial work it can be seen that it tends to be too much dominated by part tasks in that the worker is not involved with the delivery of the whole product but with a small component of it and even , at times , with a particular operation on that small component . |
| 10 | Food preferences are very much dictated by habit , and those who get into the habit of choosing the fibre-rich foods gradually come to prefer them . |
| 11 | It is a romantic adventure set in a time when the role of women was very much restricted by dress and their rights , but compared to ‘ Anna Karenina ’ it is a modern novel , first published in 1941 . |