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Example sentences of "[be] much [adv] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.

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1	The arguments that are now available to justify the use of particular methods are much more convincing than they used to be .
2	Sperm whales frequently dive to search for squid and they are much more agile than any of our hunting devices .
3	Ponies nearly always have the bonus of excellent temperaments and are much more agile than horses .
4	Ponies nearly always have the bonus of excellent temperaments and are much more agile than horses .
5	Figures for the average price of a detached house in each region for 1988 are provided in Table 9.1 ( column 6 ) and indicate that houses in the South East are much more expensive than elsewhere in the country .
6	The Avent bottles for it are much more expensive than others , about £6 each , but I think they are worth having .
7	REMEMBER : Calls per unit are much more expensive than calls made from conventional phones .
8	bottles are much more expensive cos you pay for the bottle .
9	Excessive emphasis has been placed on the ‘ spectrin repeats ’ of dystrophin as the repeats are much more variable than those of spectrin , which suggests that their structure may differ .
10	MOORE 'S VERBAL RECOLLECTIONS OF THE MINES ARE MUCH MORE EVOCATIVE THAN THE DRAWINGS THEMSELVES , IN WHICH THE MINERS APPEAR AS FROZEN STATUARY .
11	Moore 's verbal recollections of the mines are much more evocative than the drawings themselves , in which the miners appear as a frozen statuary .
12	It has long been the view of central government that these forecasts are much more accurate if they are made at a local rather than at a national level ( Hammond , 1984 ) .
13	Worries are like home videos — they are much more stressful if you use the freeze-frame .
14	Although adult herons sometimes catch fish using these particular baits , they are much more successful when using insects .
15	Things here are much more instant than at IBM . ’
16	It is also important to point out at this stage that Firbas ' notions of context-dependence/independence are much more restricted than Halliday 's notions of given/new :
17	Under the no boundary proposal one learns that the chance of the universe being found to be following most of the possible histories is negligible , but there is a particular family of histories that are much more probable than the others .
18	Third , he said , the Big Six have a substantial revenue advantage because they are much more profitable than second tier firms .
19	However , the Commissioner 's powers are much more limited than those of either of these bodies .
20	Erm some metals are much more reactive than others .
21	Reactivity : The alkenes are much more reactive than alkanes because they are ‘ unsaturated ’ ( have double bonds in their structure ) .
22	This will need topdressing each year in spring , together with the addition of a little slow-acting organic fertilizer — herbs are much more aromatic when grown " hard " with little nutrient .
23	Women are much more emotional than men and will , as a result of their emotions , distort their testimony ;
24	They are designed especially for slip , so are much more effective than most cards in the basic packs .
25	These are much more effective when coupled with a thorough removal of acid organic detritus from the substrate .
26	Any minor problems that exist are much more noticeable when the guitar is used with huge amounts of gain .
27	Modern boilers are much more efficient than their predecessors , particularly condensing boilers .
28	One possible theory about why some people are much more affected than others is that they may have had traumatic experiences of falling as a baby or a young child , and that this has further re-inforced their instinctive behaviour .
29	But the poems which he wrote are much more subtle than this obvious insult .
30	Second , the magmas involved are much more viscous than those in Strombolian eruptions so that the explosive activity tends to be violent , often demolishing parts of the volcanic structure .