Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if widowhood is such a double shock for many women , why do widows survive much longer than widowers ? |
| 2 | And indeed the anthropomorphism of the sociobiologists goes much further than that since they regularly employ a language which derives directly from the ideology of twentieth-century capitalism : investment , costs , benefits are central elements in their vocabulary . |
| 3 | When it comes to loyalties the list of allegiances extends much further than we have considered hitherto . |
| 4 | We ourselves have found that if a patient goes on to a diet which is relatively free from pesticides , herbicides and chemical additives , then often the homoeopathic remedies work much better than if the patient continues to eat an additive and junk-food-laden diet . |
| 5 | All successful companies spend much more than 0.5 per cent . |
| 6 | Sometimes she thought that things went much better when Liza happened to be out of the room and she was alone with John . |
| 7 | Code of practice : Far-reaching proposals go much further than the code published by national newspapers . |
| 8 | The state is , in effect , assuming a parental responsibility , although the role of the state in the education of children goes much further than that , of course . |
| 9 | One implication of revisionist work is that the root cause both of the fall of tsarism and of the failure of the liberals and moderate socialists lies much deeper than the liberal interpretation would have it . |
| 10 | But the local publican told Jane that these maligned outsiders behaved much better than drunk Councillors . |
| 11 | One unexpected observation was that the carrion-eating bees have an exceptionally high proportion of queen to worker cells in their nests , apparently because their high-protein diet makes worker bee larvae grow much faster than those of other species . |
| 12 | To be sure there was still a strong response opposing Enoch Powell 's call for repatriation , from all shades of political opinion , but the racialization of public debate about the 1985 riots went much further than 1980–1 . |
| 13 | When they were asked to turn out and fight on behalf of king or queen and country , some regiments performed much better than others . |
| 14 | And it should be remembered that the Whigs did much better than the Tories in the open and more popular constituencies in the elections of early 1715 , largely because the Jacobite scare and the fear of popery worked to their advantage . |
| 15 | The eventual pensions received by women who participated in these inter-war schemes would have reflected their low and unequal pay as well as conditions of service which typically required women to retire much earlier than men , especially in private sector employment . |
| 16 | Multiple biopsies sample much less than 1% of the surface area of the colon . |
| 17 | Practical solutions require finding more processes and developing a strategy , but some puzzles become much easier because they have many pieces the same . |
| 18 | But individually they orbit at different speeds depending on their distance from the Sun , the innermost rocky planets orbiting much faster than the outer balls of frozen gaseous vapour , such as Jupiter , Saturn and Uranus . |
| 19 | The well-established agricultural divisions of the county were reinforced by medieval practices , but perhaps the greatest contribution to Sussex life was the extension of settlement much deeper into the Weald , the piecemeal annual clearings going much farther than before . |