Example sentences of "much [noun] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not too much milk and a tiny bit of sugar . |
| 2 | We are acutely aware that it will not succeed without much prayer and a mutual pulling together . |
| 3 | More likely he did n't have much faith but a great deal of superstition . |
| 4 | Hurrying away on her next mission , Nicandra felt quietly elated because the little act of kindness in donating her scone had been accepted with so much pleasure and a thoughtful reservation for breakfast . |
| 5 | Few things in life give as much pleasure as a well-tended garden . |
| 6 | These vivid , compact displays require as much creativity and care , and can give as much pleasure as a formal garden . |
| 7 | Such overseas business represented not so much diversification as a natural development of banking facilities to meet customer needs . |
| 8 | Nationally what was needed was not so much cash as a rational development programme with long-term perspectives . |
| 9 | as if every sentence he had ever written had not cried out to the heavens that the man had as much integrity as a rotten tree-trunk . |
| 10 | Her visits were a cause for much speculation and a great deal of dread because her power was infinite . |
| 11 | In addition , there is now much evidence that a brief episode of pain may induce long term changes in the excitability of spinal nociceptive neurones . |
| 12 | For those who only need relatively local stations , advantage can be taken of the fact that nearly all FM stations now radiate , either slant-polarised or circularly polarised signals , so that a vertical dipole , completely non-directional in the horizontal plane , gives as much signal as a horizontal one . |
| 13 | But in fact the whole fluffy , vapid confection is so resolutely unmemorable that it gives as much offence as a toothless poodle . |
| 14 | All for now , save much love and a big hug , |
| 15 | In a place like Alberta , with that much capital and a good deal of know-how , which he himself had , the boy could be quite wealthy before he was forty . |
| 16 | My car is clamped two hours before we are to leave for Holyhead , though lifted within the hour , after much persuasion and a torrid sobbing session at the clamping office . |
| 17 | Precision of communication is important , more important than ever , in our era of hair-trigger balances , when a false , or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act |
| 18 | In 1153 , for example , when the bishop of Langres brought a complaint against Duke Eudes II of Burgundy in the royal court , all four royal summonses to the duke met with excuses ; in the end , therefore , the royal verdict was given by default to the bishop , but without much expectation that a long-term solution to the conflict had been achieved . |
| 19 | Moreover , recent work has shown that much of the heat energy in the seas of the North Atlantic ( every square kilometre of which gives off as much energy as a nuclear power station and hence influences our weather ) is absorbed from sunlight in the tropical Pacific and is carried by ocean currents through the Drake Passage and up into the Atlantic . |
| 20 | They could be emitting as much energy as a large power station . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't have a feeling that after putting so much energy and a big piece of my life into the Maryinsky I could leave . |