Example sentences of "much [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a less sustained form , this is still a much used line of attack . |
| 2 | Rank for rank , East India Company officers received double the pay of an officer of a royal regiment , while serving in a country with a much lower cost of living . |
| 3 | This is a much lower threshold of liability than the notion of violence that underlay the common law concept . |
| 4 | While this downswing will not be as sharp as the previous downturn ( in 1979-81 ) , not least given the very much lower level of inflation that we now have , a dull 1989 is bound to be followed by a difficult 1990 . ’ |
| 5 | This is no longer necessary ; fear for one 's personal safety is a much lower level of alarm . |
| 6 | Without such basic knowledge , you might gain some small insight into the sport , but at a much lower level of appreciation than if you had done some reading in advance . |
| 7 | Optimal scaffolding is that which promotes the highest level of functioning with the minimal level of support ; a child who is having difficulty in making herself understood may require a great deal of support ; a few minutes later that same child dealing with a different topic may become relatively fluent and require a much lower level of adult participation . |
| 8 | This is a much lower level of use than either Edinburgh or Glasgow , but in view of the standard of service observed on this occasion , it is impossible to say whether this usage figure represents lower demand , or merely laxity in control . |
| 9 | In Wales the amount of development plan grants paid for drainage increased 3.5 times , and for grassland improvement 3.2 times , between 1979/80 and 1982/83 compared with a rise of 74% for farm buildings ( the latter then attracting a much lower rate of grant ) . |
| 10 | Or if you have a number of outstanding debts , such as credit card charges and hire purchase deals , a remortgage can pay them all off at a much lower rate of interest to help you reduce your outgoings . |
| 11 | Similarly , Abigail Tordoff , for example will have a much lower point of contact than me , but the principle is the same . |
| 12 | However , although this factor is important , it is unlikely to explain why default rates have risen so rapidly during 1990–91 compared with the early 1980s , given the much lower levels of inflation during the recent downturn . |
| 13 | The savings come from less absenteeism , lower insurance costs , more productivity , fewer deaths ( Weis calls this ‘ much lower rates of worker mortality ’ ) , not so much deterioration in furniture , carpets and so on , including office machines , less maintenance and less spent on air-conditioning and heating . |
| 14 | The new show is very much that kind of format , except I wo n't be doing any vicars or skinheads . |
| 15 | The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is at first sight a much simpler kind of formation . |
| 16 | For those who wish to immerse themselves in our lovely landscapes , for 1992 we have a much expanded selection of country villas , castles and hotels of character , set in hidden away places often so obscure even we had trouble finding them ! |
| 17 | And , of course , there is a much shorter history of interruption in many European broadcasting systems than in the more fully commercial system of US broadcasting ( and those histories show signs of reversal in new systems such as satellite and cable ) . |
| 18 | The nationalities concerned are generally Lutheran ( Estonians and Latvians ) or Roman Catholic ( Lithuanians ) by religion , not Orthodox , and they have been under Soviet rule for a much shorter period of time than most other nationalities , since 1940 rather than the immediate post-revolutionary period ( when communist-led governments were briefly established in all three republics ) . |
| 19 | An operating lease lasts for a much shorter period of time than the economic life of the asset and the lessor retains the risks and rewards of ownership . |
| 20 | The logical arable landscape is therefore the prairie and , no matter how much this type of landscape may be deplored , the economics of modern food production are compelling more and more farmers to create it . |
| 21 | I strain too much this string of life , belike , |
| 22 | you know and she , you know you do n't have to pay much this sort of heating 's in or something like that so she 's probably got loads of spare money like you , which is good because she 's on her own and it gives her more , you know |
| 23 | The end result will be more information on asbestos roofing traced , but only by considering all of the documents listed under the much broader category of roofing . |
| 24 | There is a potentially much broader field of work which could be construed as the sociology of knowledge . |
| 25 | Education has become part of the political battleground , and its transformation into a non-racial system can only be part of a much broader transformation of society . |
| 26 | I 've got to assimilate a much broader kind of spectrum outside the interests of climbers in national parks . |
| 27 | The second change is the increasing differentiation among universities in terms of funding , based initially on surveys of research performance , but now becoming widened to include a much broader range of performance indicators . |
| 28 | The state may thus mould the company 's constitution so as to protect the interests of parties directly involved , for instance the interests of shareholders against abuse of position by management , but it also has a much broader right of intervention , allowing it , if appropriate , to redefine corporate objectives to secure compliance with favoured social goals . |
| 29 | A much broader definition of empowerment proposes that people gain control in their own lives in the context of participating with others to change their social and political realities ( Rappaport , 1987 ; Zimmerman and Rappaport , 1988 ) . |
| 30 | Modern types of ballvalve come with a much easier method of adjustment . |