Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Anisminic decision goes much further than this and says in effect that A 's decision can be set aside by the courts if they disagree with his interpretation of the rules which he is required to apply . |
| 2 | Daddy 's driven after you , but I did n't think he would catch you up because your car goes much faster than his . ’ |
| 3 | Instead , the separation occurs much later when the embryo is made up already of many hundreds of cells . |
| 4 | As a result , Romanesque architecture lasted much longer than in Italy or France or England , indeed it was more on a par with Germany in this respect , but , equally , Gothic architecture when it arrived , also lasted much longer , delaying the Renaissance till the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century . |
| 5 | The process takes much longer than the two years of ‘ aftercare ’ written into many restoration contracts . |
| 6 | Her heart thumped painfully as she remembered him making love to her for the first time , the hard , forceful thrust of his body coming much quicker than she had expected , an abrupt shock after all the gentleness that had gone before . |
| 7 | The feeling of hitting along the hips will often produce the right kind of action , with the hips and body unwinding much earlier than the player imagines . |
| 8 | Holding the cow 's tail he leaned on the hairy back and , empty-eyed , blew smoke from the pipe which like most farmers at a cleansing he had prudently lit at the outset And of course , since the going was heavy , it just would happen that the job took much longer than usual . |
| 9 | Folkman discovered that tumours in rabbits ' ears treated with protamine grew much slower than untreated tumours . |
| 10 | Thirdly , in generating assessment exercises from objectives the whole process took much longer than anticipated and initially reviewers were unhappy with the quality of exercises produced by contract ‘ item writers ’ . |
| 11 | And it would be another 55 years before an Australian team paused much longer than to browse the bazaars , while the nations have met just once in Test cricket on the island , in 1983 . |
| 12 | One owner after another makes the amused discovery that these simple objects will keep the playful cat or kitten occupied much longer than any fancy toy . |
| 13 | Under water , the world of sound signalling takes on an additional significance since sound in water travels much further than light , moving a great deal faster than it does in air . |
| 14 | In any case , the continuation of the war was forcing the revolution to dig much deeper than the topsoil of reforms . |
| 15 | This explicitly materialist framework of contemporary neurophysiology originated much later than Aristotle . |
| 16 | But the significance of this terrace solidarity went much further than this . |
| 17 | His reply was something like ‘ No Leeds wont do much better than last year , when they won the title everyone had exceptional seasons and played above themselves , last year was a true reflection of how good they are … ’ . |
| 18 | In the 1970s it was only a curiosity but around 1980 it had a renaissance when people discovered that in certain complicated molecules , involving both deuterium and tritium , the presence of a muon caused fusion to occur much faster than had been previously thought possible . |
| 19 | Scottish Amicable 's partnership with J. Rothschild Assurance goes much deeper than purely processing the business for the Company . |
| 20 | The problem of the uneven playing-field goes much deeper than those arising from non-compliance . |
| 21 | I will not suppose them guilty of a direct intention of striking us , particularly if they had any idea of the danger of such a proceeding , for the cliff rose much more than a hundred feet above us , and even a very small stone would have fatal effect by striking the head . |
| 22 | The main advantage of compression joints is that they make complicated pipe runs much easier since the joints can all be assembled , tightened , slackened off again and the pipe rotated in the joint to get the position right before the nuts are all re-tightened . |
| 23 | The halogen bulb 's unique regenerative cycle means that the filament does not wear out , the glass does not blacken , and the bulb lasts much longer than ordinary bulbs in fact , for between 2000 and 400 hours — all of which makes the halogen bulb an extremely efficient form of lighting . |
| 24 | Creating our own reality goes much deeper than that . |
| 25 | Mr Landon also argues that the problem goes much deeper than just testing but begins when children are first identified as having a problem . |
| 26 | .. the struggle to establish a clear identity for a radical left of centre politics in the latter part of the 20th century goes much deeper than individual policy issues . |
| 27 | The birthrate towards the end of the nineteenth century declined much faster than the deathrate . |
| 28 | Machines can keep the disparate parts of such a system co-ordinated much better than men can . |
| 29 | Her heart beating much faster than usual , her face much paler , she turned and high-stepped through the undergrowth towards the path along which the signpost pointed . |
| 30 | This teaching appealed to many ordinary people because it was simple to understand and made Christian obedience appear much easier than it really was . |