Example sentences of "[verb] much [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pricing restraints are treated much more harshly than non-price restraints . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , most natural populations , at most times , change much more slowly than they would if subjected to strong directional selection . |
| 3 | The rule for raising before velars , however , is strong and active and does not seem to have begun to recede lexically : in word-list style ( which is usually considered to be formal ) it persists much more strongly than post-velar raising ; neologisms undergo the rule , and it affects spelling ( see the discussion of ‘ occasional spellings ’ below ) . |
| 4 | If your crops fail , or grow much less prolifically than your neighbour 's , then it is due to witchcraft . |
| 5 | It was true , of course , that property was dispersed much more widely than in Europe . |
| 6 | Gartner believes that by 1995 ‘ Sun will compromise much more substantially than it previously has , de-emphasizing Sun-specific application programming interfaces and services such as Open Network Computing and Open Look in favour of X/Open , OSF and USL-endorsed interfaces . ’ |
| 7 | A system can be designed much more economically if it can be assumed that skilled personnel are available to control and take care of it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Dividend pay-outs are much lower in Japan and Germany than in Britain and America , but this is not the only or even the main source of returns to shareholders : they receive capital gains ( indeed they prefer them in Japan , where dividends are taxed much more heavily than capital gains ) and , especially in Japan , gain business advantages through shareholdings in customers or suppliers , for instance . |
| 10 | ( see fig 7 ) This can be applied much more easily because it is not rigidly defined in the way that Burgess ' model is . |
| 11 | Since the stock of dinar assets held by households has risen much more slowly than this , the proportion of household assets held in foreign exchange accounts has steadily grown : while in 1980 this proportion was less than 40 per cent , by the end of 1986 it had reached nearly 70 per cent . |
| 12 | In the fifties and early sixties the cost of imports had risen much more slowly than prices inside the advanced countries . |
| 13 | A side-effect of the right of citizens to make foreign exchange deposits has been that , as inflation has continued and accelerated , the dinar value of these deposits has grown much more rapidly than the value of dinar assets held by households . |
| 14 | If wages had not risen , most of this scrapping would not have happened and productivity would have grown much less quickly than it did . |
| 15 | I had started to fear that each of us controls the manner in which we die much more closely than is generally supposed . |
| 16 | In essence , he argues , certain forms of conduct which were once forbidden are now allowed , and are regulated much less formally than they once were . |
| 17 | Each piece , given space , will grow much more quickly than leaving the budded offset attached to the base of the main stalk . |
| 18 | Professional qualifications are stipulated much more commonly than academic degrees . |
| 19 | THe local area network business is growing much more quickly than the PC industry as a whole . |
| 20 | First , the dollar is still ‘ fundamentally undervalued ’ , and by quite a margin — that is , a dollar buys much less abroad than it does at home . |
| 21 | The note , headed ‘ Costing Labour 's Programme ’ and dated 17 July 1989 , says : ‘ The Labour review document has been drafted much more carefully than on some earlier occasions . |
| 22 | Under the Citizen 's Charter , we shall soon be able to identify much more precisely than ever before those schools which are delivering unacceptably low standards . |
| 23 | However , it is characteristic of quantified patterns that they can conceal what lies behind them and so they can be interpreted much more deeply than in this unilinear way . |
| 24 | It has been found that this form of conditioning can occur much more rapidly if the response prevents unpleasant stimuli occurring or stops them once they have started . |
| 25 | But Thalberg went on to play much more widely than Liszt , even visiting North and South America ( which Liszt never did ) ; and Liszt kept some of Thalberg 's operatic paraphrases in his repertoire . |
| 26 | Branding and voucher regulations were enforced much more consistently than in earlier years . |
| 27 | ‘ But you must remember it 's only provisional pole and I 've got two young tigers either side of me that will be going much quicker tomorrow so we 've all got to find a bit of speed . ’ |
| 28 | These mill owners alleged that cloth woven on Lewis from mainland yarn could be sold much more cheaply than cloth made from yarn spun in Lewis . |
| 29 | Steel , however , rusts much more quickly than wrought iron . |
| 30 | 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 . |