Example sentences of "much [conj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donlevy ‘ lorded it over everybody else ’ and exasperated Ray Milland so much that during a fencing sequence , Milland aimed for an unpadded spot on Donlevy , managing to draw blood . |
| 2 | Why for example is the profit on running a service station whittled away so much that by the time off-site costs are taken into account , the final profit is just one quarter of what it was ? |
| 3 | The interesting thing of course was his ro , his brother Robert was a civil engineer and the story goes , of course , they disagreed so much that in the end George said okay Robert you can have the civil engineers , I 'll start with mechanical engineers ! |
| 4 | There was smoke down there but not too much and with the aid of his torch he had no difficulty in locating the three missing men , all huddled shapelessly in a corner . |
| 5 | It blurred so much and in the blurring we have discovered our own vulnerabilities . |
| 6 | At first it were good because it were incentive for her to keep going because she 'd , you know , paid so much but toward the end , she said , it were getting ridiculous . |
| 7 | Not so much because of the menace in his voice and manner , but because it caused me to lose what little respect I had for him . |
| 8 | The ANC rejected the proposal , saying that the government was opposed to majority rule " not so much because of the principle involved but because of dissatisfaction with whom the majority will be " . |
| 9 | And er you ca n't really do much because of the stone walls and there 's too much window and too much noise , and you get quite a few insects in them , and they 're just generally not very nice at all . |
| 10 | ‘ Not so much because of the liver but because it spoils the effect of the first drink of the evening . ’ |
| 11 | Hue and Cry are the most interesting of the new pop sophisticates , not so much because of the music , but because singer and lyricist Patrick Kane is an intellectual firebrand who 's more sussed than most about the contradictions and complexities of trying to infiltrate intelligence into the world of teenpop . |
| 12 | But Harold was not to be soothed : he demanded retribution , he demanded action , not so much because of the ridicule but because at some stage in the programme it was alleged that he had made advantageous use of privileged or secret material in an improper fashion in relation to a book he was then about to publish . |
| 13 | As we have already indicated , what has been ‘ lost ’ from the countryside has been the village as an occupational community , which has disappeared not so much because of the impact of the newcomers but because of the underlying changes in the economics of agriculture . |
| 14 | CHARITIES are losing money not so much because of the practice of suggesting the amount of donations but because they impose such high postal charges on the goods they offer . |
| 15 | Since both hands are needed for the descent , as much as for the climb , one can not keep hold of any eggs that one finds . |
| 16 | These territories were theoretically viewed as the third party beneficiaries of an international status designed with the objective of promoting international peace and security , as much as for the advancement of the territory and its inhabitants . |
| 17 | The others followed , all of the same murderous breed , twenty killers to be let loose on the tiny defenceless country which Trent had learnt to love for its simplicity and innocence as much as for the variety of its natural beauty . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , Circumspecte agatis deserves attention because of the circumstances which brought it about as much as for the harmony which it established in some controversial areas of justice . |
| 19 | What is at once important to stress about the Council is the lasting caution , indeed conservatism , of the majority of its members and of their consultants , as much as of the curia and the popes . |
| 20 | Even the second movement of the Suite , which can sound merely hectic , has a musicality reinforcing the awareness that Schoenberg was thinking of the world of cabaret as much as of the classroom and counterpoint . |
| 21 | As the years unfold , the penny will drop in the general council of the CBI , as much as on the commuter trains from Basildon , that the whole market-based experiment has gone as far as it can — and the new need is for a government and policies that actively manage the instability and short-termism of the British economy . |
| 22 | It is evident that the figures and groups were set up and down the field , surely very much as on the Underworld vase ; only on this wall there were scores of figures and also certainly more indications of setting . |
| 23 | Some committee , board and panel chairmen acquired a reputation for being especially rigorous , and in some cases angry responses from institutions focussed on the alleged biases or eccentricities of panel members as much as on the nature of the judgments made about the courses . |
| 24 | Fear of the Communist " Trojan horse " was still present in the minds of the Executive , though it was now coupled with a desire to assert the Party 's independence from allies on the Right as much as on the Left . |
| 25 | We could argue , then , that recording comes at the culmination of one era as much as at the start of another , and that the blanket concepts of ‘ mass media ’ and ‘ mechanical reproduction ’ need opening up . |
| 26 | The issue is as much conceptual as empirical , having to do with the definition and measurement of handedness as much as with the demonstration of a hemisphere " dominance " effect . |
| 27 | When , during the 1930s and 1940s , the concern was with the quantity as much as with the quality of population this particular objection carried little weight , although being drawn upon as a reason for not restricting a national scheme of family allowances to the working classes alone . |
| 28 | However much the Donation had been perfected and refined by the twelfth century to fit into other papal arguments , there still remained the basic problem not so much as to the origin of power as to its descent . |
| 29 | The words took time to sink in — to herself as much as to the rest . |
| 30 | Of course , this is a tribute to Muriel Spark 's novel as much as to the film ; and this is a key to the moving image portrayal of Edinburgh and its surroundings — film-makers have come to Edinburgh to produce stories which are set here already , generally well-known stories from fact or fiction . |