Example sentences of "[adv] much [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The examples given in Table 6.1 refer to the kind of experience well within the capacity potentially of everyone , and may be so much accepted as part of everyday life as to go unnoticed . |
| 2 | Around me , as the pirates and Famlio stared at Gharr , the atmosphere grew so much charged with fury and tension that it almost crackled , like a defective energy field . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The whole operation does not so much aspire to style as do what it pleases with it . |
| 5 | Our bondage to society is not so much established by conquest as by collusion … we are entrapped by our own social nature . |
| 6 | By June 1318 the forest of Selwood in Wiltshire had been so much reduced in size that the warden 's farm of £10 a year could no longer be paid , and the Forest of Dean had been reduced by a quarter before the end of the reign . |
| 7 | Crown lands had been so much reduced in size that the most efficient management could not have increased their yield to the point at which they might have made any significant impact on royal finances . |
| 8 | He used to tell me I was going to fail but I did so much work at home it was my best subject . |
| 9 | Sandy was so much taken by surprise that her sickness was forgotten . |
| 10 | Obviously much depends on personality . |
| 11 | Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’ |
| 12 | The idea now under consideration , that we take effects to be probable events , is announced or expounded but not much supported by argument . |
| 13 | fresh leaf stems , seeds , of use in respiratory conditions such as colds , bronchitis and coughs ; a stimulator of appetite and a digestive , not much used at present ; dried root anti-flatulent |
| 14 | In the last section we have come to the interesting conclusion that B may alone exist of all our variables but we reached that conclusion on a magnet shape not much used in practice . |
| 15 | Upstate city-dwelling environmentalists are not much welcomed by conservative and strongly Mormon southerners who have mined , logged and ranched the land for decades . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , I scarcely think so , ’ she said carelessly , ‘ I am not much set on jewellery , you know … ’ |
| 17 | The slope in figure 10.6 is not much changed after polishing , so the technique is illustrated in exercise 10.1 . |
| 18 | Although the ericaceous shrubs are a consistent part of the community , they are usually much reduced in stature by exposure and grazing , and may be only a few centimetres high . |
| 19 | Although Adsersen ( 1989 ) believes that the major threat to conservation is not from tourism but from land-use via agriculture and sand and gravel extraction , there is still much cause for concern , especially if hotels and tourist resorts are developed . |
| 20 | Fox carried out much research at East London College and at the laboratory . |
| 21 | Paraffin oil heaters , although now much improved in design for safety and ease of filling , can be a hazard for some of the frail elderly , and should not be used by them if any other form of heating is available . |
| 22 | In conclusion , despite all that has been said , it must be emphasised that attitudes are as much affected by reality as affecting reality . |
| 23 | But it is worth noting that even in China , the buyer of licenses is as much motivated by profit as is the copyright owner . |
| 24 | They restrict opportunities for choice , experiment and innovation , which are as much needed in education as in any other field . |
| 25 | Words are generally as much over-used within worship as they are outside it . |
| 26 | The heart is as much identified with thought and the mind as with the emotions and the will . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He did n't much care for nature in the raw : it was messy and wasteful and there was too much of it . |
| 29 | He did n't much approve of animal experimentation in the first place , so I 'd guess that it was forced on him by the sponsor . ’ |
| 30 | Like when we 're doing geography , we do n't seem to be working , but when we started revising we ended up in two years with seven books , which is goodness knows how much compared with chemistry or a subject like that . |