Example sentences of "[vb past] much [adv] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is to say , scholars have assumed that around 1550 the English language became much more convergent than it had been before even though there can be no direct evidence that spoken English did become more convergent . |
| 2 | Similarly , through Lata 's sister 's marriage to Pran you 're led into the world of politics and the subject of land reform , which sounded dull to me at first but became much more interesting as I got into it . ’ |
| 3 | During the scoring of the recall tests , it was noticed that those of the Cornell students seemed much more full than those of the community college students , and the researchers decided to analyse the two sets of results separately , instead of together , as had originally been planned . |
| 4 | He had toiled for 19 wicketless overs on a bouncy pitch but seemed much more cheerful when he re-emerged after tea with his arm around Mayer . |
| 5 | To Dexter the producer seemed much more self-confident than on the morning after the murder , talkative and charming . |
| 6 | I had few worries that she would suddenly take an interest in American history , but she might notice something out of place and the combination lock looked much more sophisticated than it actually was . |
| 7 | Today , though , she looked much more ruffled than usual . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , total system approval proved much less predictable than relative preference . |
| 9 | In practice , although this way of thinking was one perspective from which we looked at our material , it proved much less useful than we expected . |
| 10 | Litter from battery hen farms is unsuitable for the plants and though turkey litter was tried last Christmas it proved much less successful than the chicken fuel . |
| 11 | However , Beecroft 's attempts , little noted at the time because they were mounted from Fernando Po , proved much more successful than the highly publicized expeditions that set out from England . |
| 12 | A similar situation obtained in the second example which unsurprisingly proved much more difficult because it is unfamiliar and the numbers are more complex . |
| 13 | Paul 's verdict : the stove proved much more manageable than the complicated arrangement of parts first appeared . |
| 14 | Yet Europe appeared much more stable because Germany 's one likely enemy , France , was more effectively isolated than ever and therefore presented , for the moment , no danger . |
| 15 | And , anyway , we did put them in the picture , they left much more knowledgeable than when they came . |
| 16 | He said Kaos , the German word ; it sounded much more doom-laden than mere ‘ chaos ’ — which , to her mind , was a fitting description of the everyday state of the London money market . |
| 17 | Even to herself she sounded much less convincing than usual . |
| 18 | The Germanic culture of the South Saxons remained much more intact than that of the rest of the country . |