Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] much [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Later investigations had the benefit of a 18,800 lexicon , which provided a much greater coverage of the English language .
2 Professor Stubbs provided a much lengthier example of class-room discussion to illustrate good practice in the teaching of linguistic terminology .
3 The visits to the colleges provided a much wider perspective on the provision of accounting courses as opposed to the narrow single college viewpoint .
4 There was evidence that other businesses in the same line as the plaintiffs charged a much lower fee — in most cases less than £3.50 per transparency per week .
5 We found a much higher number of HAPCs in children than previously reported in adults .
6 The greater use of hired labour on the arable farm created a much greater cleavage between farmers and the farm workers than in the pastoral areas , where little hired labour was employed and where the most significant class division was between landowners and their tenants .
7 Although it was clear that Mr Smith adopted a much warmer tone towards the unions than his predecessor Neil Kinnock , the speech also marked an attempt to ease tension between him and some union barons .
8 Keith Rickaby BBC Scottish Orchestra : Middlesbrough Town Hall THE programme deserved a much bigger audience than actually attended .
9 He deserved a much higher reputation and Rain wished she could trust Joseph to help him acquire one .
10 and there 'd a much worse instance similarly with the I P R at when forty two people had signed up for something and only five appeared
11 Nasser drove a much harder bargain than Farouk 's negotiators , which seriously delayed the completion of the New Anglo-Egyptian Treaty , preventing any reduction of British troops in Egypt .
12 This drove a much harder bargain and , it has been suggested , represents the moment at which Edward overplayed his hand .
13 As a direct result of the project , a much larger committee was established , where membership comprised a much wider representation of the staff as a whole .
14 For example , the origin of the missile was far from clear ; and as detailed structures of many H-H objects were elucidated , the jet interactions described above seemed a much better proposition .
15 As a result the negative obsession of anti-semitism played a much greater role than the positive outline of racial nationalism and the Nordic , Aryan or Anglo-Saxon theme of such ideas .
16 In the postwar period , international institutions have , after all , played a much greater role than previously , albeit dominated by the United States , and , to a lesser extent , the Soviet Union .
17 Whatever the validity of this theory , there is no doubt that in our period the banks ( and similar institutions ) played a much greater role as developers and directors of industry in Germany , the great industrial newcomer , than in the west .
18 On the other hand Wilkinson , determined to beat the British number 1 , played a much tougher match , taking every opportunity to place pressure on his agitated opponent who succumbed 6–4 7–5 .
19 In West Africa , as in all aspects of life there , Africans played a much larger part on railway staffs .
20 The catch was that the cost per copy assumed a much larger rate of copying than actually took place in the business .
21 He was about to walk on when he noticed a much older sign on the metal railings inside the glass , ‘ Princes Street Gardens ’ .
22 Stirling envisaged a much larger force of raiders with a permanent base deep in the desert , supplied by air , which could descend at will on the coastal lifeline of the Axis forces .
23 One faction ( the Bolsheviks — ‘ partisans of the majority ’ ) favoured a narrow definition which would admit only dedicated and disciplined activists , while another ( the Mensheviks — ‘ partisans of the minority ’ ) envisaged a much broader Party enveloping wide sections of the proletariat .
24 One faction ( the Bolsheviks — ‘ partisans of the majority ’ ) favoured a narrow definition which would admit only dedicated and disciplined activists , while another ( the Mensheviks — ‘ partisans of the minority ’ ) envisaged a much broader party embracing wide sections of the proletariat .
25 But Hutchison , a captain in the Royal Engineers , faced a much closer battle between World Cup skiers fighting for the top four places in the men 's event .
26 Juvenile age classes showed a much greater range of variation than the adults , and that variation decreased with age until only those of the parental form survived as recruits into the adult population .
27 Pot D showed a much lower increase than E and C as measured , but this was not noticed ( N.B. noticed , as opposed to noticeable ) by eye .
28 Follow up of our patients showed a much lower rate of sudden death ( two out of 156 or 1.3% , leaving out the patient who died before admission ) .
29 One clone ( designated CL100 ) reproducibly showed a much higher hybridization signal with the induced probe relative to control and was characterized further .
30 Most L1 + cells at this site were this taken to represent granulocytes , which was supported by the fact that the CD68 + L1 - cells showed a much stronger reaction for acid phosphatase than those expressing L1 in all ethanol fixed specimens examined .
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