Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as you can stay reasonably flexible a well-planned interview structure will make comparisons between candidates much easier because all candidates will have been put through more or less the same hoops . |
| 2 | Pieces of material much longer than the vice jaws should be gripped between two wood strips and held in the vice with the addition of a G-cramp or screw at each end ( fig.2 ) . |
| 3 | The revenue was never enough for this , and the Company began declining into bankruptcy much faster than before . |
| 4 | Why the change of direction is the most important and difficult move in golf to come to terms with goes much further than many golfers seem to realise . |
| 5 | He must have been in Mrs Wright 's house with Lee much longer than he 'd thought . |
| 6 | Francisco said , ‘ You have settled down in Spain much faster than Rosie . |
| 7 | To your numerous enquiries , I must answer rather briefly , for I have so bad a cold as to be half blind : add to which so bad a cough & sore throat , that if they do nt go I shall be in town much sooner than I expected … my eyes are so sadly worse , that no bird under an Ostrich shall I soon be able to do . |
| 8 | Good windsurfing boots or shoes have soft rubber soles so your grip will be far better , and the materials used in them mean that they can withstand use in water much better than running shoes . |
| 9 | As road transport has improved , changing from horse-drawn waggons to motorcars and lorries , the larger market towns and cities have grown in size much faster than the small ones . |
| 10 | Parsley does best in deep moist soil and sun ; the mints prefer the same soil , and are impervious to shade or sun , but pineapple mint will survive in drought much better than ginger mint . |
| 11 | The British government 's rules on the use of sewage sludge as fertiliser for grazing land have been called into question by the discovery that bacteria survive in soil much longer than previously thought . |
| 12 | Two groups of animals can appear to be distantly related because of their size and body shape , and begin to diverge and then become similar in form much later because both share the same way of life . |
| 13 | ‘ Sometimes I can relate to animals much better than people ’ she says . |
| 14 | Actually , John nearly went to England much sooner than turned out to be the case . |
| 15 | I get to places much quicker than I used to : places like the far end of the room . |
| 16 | They are also very durable , standing up to frost much better than many housebricks , which need the protection of the house roof . |
| 17 | They were now drifting down river much faster than before . |
| 18 | Because Mr Ross was unconscious , he had been unable to steer his vessel and the craft had drifted two miles out to sea much further than it was designed to go . |
| 19 | A Cambridge mathematician , Michael Behrend , derived an ingenious formula which shows that sites will align by change much more than one would expect . |