Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] much a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , our use of our mother tongue is often so automatic and habitual , and so much a part of our individual and social identity , that help is needed to stand back and reflect on aspects of language with some degree of objectivity . |
| 2 | Our breath is moist and our sweat evaporates ; one person ‘ produces ’ a quarter of a litre of water during eight hours of sleep , and as much a litre and a half during an active day . |
| 3 | One consequence of the blaze in St Pierre was that it is difficult now to diagnose how much of the damage was a direct result of the nuee ardente , and how much a result of the fires it started . |
| 4 | This is an attractive and historic place , and very much a river town , having formed around the point where two dynamic Pyrenean torrents , the Gave d'Aspe from high up on the Col du Somport , and the Gave d'Ossau from even higher up on the ruggedly distinctive Pic du Midi d'Ossau , flow together . |
| 5 | He was a very earnest , very intelligent gentleman — and very much a gentleman , whom I never thought of as particularly ambitious . |
| 6 | He 's a good boy , and very much a boy . |
| 7 | Inputs , such as , for example , a ‘ corporate capability' , are often common to more than one offering , and very much a management concern . |
| 8 | Drucker outlines the variety of innovative activity , arguing that ‘ innovation is work rather than genius ’ and very much a matter of discipline . |
| 9 | The underlying approach was still remarkably uncritical and very much a matter of assertion and appeal to reason , the message couched in fairly bland terms and over-reliant on a concept of progress from a philistine past . |
| 10 | One died leaving a small son , the other is back at work but very much a shadow of his former self . |