Example sentences of "[is] [verb] much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caught here by Peter Chick on September 11 , despite its age it is faring much better than the much younger , but cocooned , Citation executive jet behind ! |
| 2 | Gloucestershire is faring much better than many other parts of England . |
| 3 | For most companies , the practice in the UK is to report much sooner than the publication period permits . |
| 4 | Risk management is made much easier where there is a quality–based culture which emphasises individual responsibility and ownership of problems , and where an atmosphere of ‘ constructive intolerance ’ of avoidable risks has been established . |
| 5 | If members of the public generally or of a section of the public share an interest which has been interfered with by government action , the protection of that interest by court action is made much easier if one person can bring an action as representative of a large number of people . |
| 6 | He notes that successful collusion requires communication between the firms and that this is made much easier if they are able to exchange information about prices , outputs , and costs . |
| 7 | My personal preference and practice — but it has to be supported by very fertile conditions — is to prune much harder than many think that a rose can stand ( remember , do n't be afraid of the knife , to three or four buds as necessary to find the outward pointing direction from the previous years prune . |
| 8 | The student population at polytechnics is growing much faster than that of universities . |
| 9 | The slight variation of the longitudinal velocity in Fig. 21.19(b) , as indicated by the spacing of dye patches , implies that fluid close to the wall is moving much faster than average . |
| 10 | The company now has 260 employees , up from 170 at its birth and has won Borland International Inc chief Phillipe Kahn over — ‘ Technically , it 's brilliant and Taligent is running much faster than I expected ; instead of being bogged down by the bureaucracies of its two large parents , Taligent seems to have taken the best of each company , ’ Kahn commented to the Journal , which notes that Wordperfect Corp and and Novell Inc are doing applications . |
| 11 | Moreover , the overhang of unsold properties is evaporating much faster than expected . |
| 12 | A fifth of England could be built on by the middle of the next century , according to a report from the Council for the Preservation of Rural England ( CPRE ) , which finds that countryside is disappearing much faster than official figures suggest . |