Example sentences of "[verb] much [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You had to put them all on in a piece you see with the tube in it and er things became much easier when the wheel base trim came in . |
| 2 | Smaller forms can be interplanted with bush roses , but normally shrub roses grow much larger than the bush forms — 8ft ( 2.4m ) and 10ft ( 3m ) high and wide being quite common — with considerable variation in habit and the way they carry their branches and blooms . |
| 3 | Both these directors fared much better than the other I have mentioned insomuch as they were working right up until their death . |
| 4 | For the background of this design I found a rough raw silk which I felt looked much better than the more conventional old linen , but one could always choose one of the linen-covered mountboards that are available in similar colourings , or even hessian or plain linen . |
| 5 | I would have felt much happier if the word had been will rather than could . |
| 6 | So I would n't like to see any property developers take it , the club on because I think they 'd be purely after the ground , I , I 'd feel much better if the consortium with Ray at the head took it over because they are genuinely interested in Walsall and the Walsall people . |
| 7 | The switch of news focus clearly had some influence on the public 's agenda but a remarkably small one : in terms of television influencing the public 's agenda the cause seemed much greater than the effect . |
| 8 | I gazed upwards and could see a few stars twinkling in the sky , one seemed much brighter than the others . |
| 9 | A girl who seemed much older than the others came to talk to her . |
| 10 | If you 're going away , wear clear or pale nail varnish — it will look much better than a dark colour with a tan . |
| 11 | Even if output continues to decline at a similar pace in this quarter before it picks up in the next ( as most forecasters expect ) , the total peak-to-trough decline will look much shallower than the 2.7% average drop in GNP during the eight recessions since the second world war . |
| 12 | A companion RCA disc contains four 20th-century works , the earliest ( 1913 ) , being Webern 's Five Pieces , op 10 , polished epigrams , and the latest , Fortner 's interludes from his opera Blood Wedding ( 1957 ) , which sound much older than the Webern . |
| 13 | MITI argues that their guidance has at least prevented maturity rates from getting much longer than the average of four months . |
| 14 | The method proved much cheaper than the conventional equipment currently used to monitor pollution levels , and is quick enough to allow recognition of pollution hotspots and the drawing up of weekly pollution maps . |
| 15 | In good old Blighty , however , we knew a big story when we saw one , and they do n't get much bigger than the size of the Universe . |
| 16 | ‘ They do n't come much bigger than the Ashes . |
| 17 | Even in the worst years of the Depression there were still people wealthy enough to give their cast-offs to the poor , and they did n't come much poorer than a Salvation Army officer 's family . |
| 18 | The Cepheid variable R Crucis , between Acrux and Epsilon , is an easy binocular object , though it never becomes much brighter than the seventh magnitude . |
| 19 | Since the working class remains much bigger than the middle class , a small proportion of manual sons provides sufficient numbers to fill many of the higher-level vacancies . |
| 20 | Before the 1790s higher spending on poor relief , although it convinced many contemporaries that the incidence of poverty was increasing , probably did not , except in particularly bad years , reflect much other than the increase in population and in food prices . |
| 21 | I do n't know that I can learn much other than the general profit-and-loss position — it would be an enormous job to go through bills of lading and check each individual consignment . " |
| 22 | In electoral terms the ILP remained much stronger than the Communist Party , as the results of the general election in October 1931 underlined . |
| 23 | The Bauer/southern Slav position on the national question , however , spread much wider than the Bund . |