Example sentences of "[be] much [adj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smoke contains levels of carcinogenic substances and heavy metals like cadmium , lead and berillium that are way in excess of permitted limits , some of which are much higher anyway than those in West Germany — lead 34 times , berillium 80 times and cadmium 166 times . |
| 2 | We are much clearer now than at the beginning about how to approach science in a more girl friendly way ( see Smail , 1983 , 1984 ) , and the clarity is due in part to the way we have worked with teachers . |
| 3 | That 's what you want , a decent endowment , it takes out all the fluctuations , and er the they 've big reserves , and of course the minute the endowment starts to look a bit poorer , it 's switch back to P E Ps , course I 've always said that P E Ps were a good idea , and the charges are much better now than they were , and I 'm just thinking of the poor chap that 's read the paper two years ago , over his tea and toast on a Sunday and thought mhm good idea , I 'll take an endowment , and two years later it 's the same person saying aha , no , pretty bad news an endowment . |
| 4 | I 'm glad I 'm grown-up now actually because er y'know it 's one of my great pleasures in life to wake up in the mornings and think great I 'm grown-up , I do n't have to go to school and er and I do n't have to live with my parents and er things are much better now than they were say sort of y'know twenty years ago or so , er giving away my age there . |
| 5 | He says east west relations are much better now so it 's not needed . |
| 6 | So the forces acting on the ERM are much stronger today than ever before . |
| 7 | As I shall describe , the prospects for finding such a theory seem to be much better now because we know so much more about the universe . |
| 8 | They 'll be much longer now than they were before . |
| 9 | And although it is much better now than it was on Thursday morning , I know I ca n't train for the next three days . |
| 10 | The spermatozoon is much smaller even than the ovum and , although it is a single cell it consists of a " head " and long tail , which propels the sperm by quivering . |
| 11 | The tax on businesses is much lighter here than in France , and it is also lower than in Germany . |
| 12 | The mathematics curriculum is much broader now than it was at the time of the 11+ . |
| 13 | When she was much more enlightened er , and the where the learning standard er , simp was much better simply because the girls were cared for . |
| 14 | Aggie , too , was on her feet and her voice was much lower now as she said , ‘ Aye , it 'll suit me . ’ |
| 15 | The Firth was much broader here than at Dalmeny and , if it had not been a clear day , Corbett could have almost believed they were out on the open sea . |
| 16 | The veteran keeper — 43 next month — said goalkeeping was much tougher now than when he started . |