Example sentences of "be much [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , if one of your customers is in financial trouble and he owes you money which is due in 20 days , you are much better off than if the debt does not fall due for 100 days . |
| 2 | We are pensioners with no help from Income Support so I want to know why we should pay for these people , a lot of them are much better off than we are and can afford to smoke and drink . |
| 3 | Under the new-look European farm policy agreed last year farmers are much better off than they thought they would be . |
| 4 | ‘ Other British sports are much worse off than athletics but are they doing as much as we are to put things right ? |
| 5 | Except I am much more so than you ! |
| 6 | " She 'll never be raised again , " and Maurice suggested that Willis would be much better off if he did n't have to look at the wreck of Dreadnought at every low tide . |
| 7 | ‘ Poor people would be much better off if they had fewer children to feed and clothe . ’ |
| 8 | It seems that we would be much better off if we spent money not on constructing a barrage but on cleaning up the various sewage works that I have castigated over the years . |
| 9 | In short , said the doomsayers , the Middle East would be much worse off than it had been before the American-led coalition drove Iraq 's army out of Kuwait . |
| 10 | We were much better off than him . |
| 11 | Though this salary was the same as that of a third-class constable , the lowest police rank , village sergeants were much better off because they served in their own localities , were not subject to discipline , and had other income . |
| 12 | It is above the eighth magnitude , and is visible with × 7 , though only as a dim blur ; its real distance is 69000 light-years , so that it is much further away than the brighter globular clusters such as M13 Herculis and Omega Centauri . |
| 13 | But if the idea of this procedure is simple , the practice is much less so because of the problems involved . |
| 14 | Even when our conscious feelings are not in a state of conflict , it is difficult to portray them relatively accurately in words , but it is much more so when they are . |
| 15 | As it happens , she was much better off than me because her weekly wage was five shillings . |
| 16 | Though television was pro-government and pro-Conservative it was much less so than other elements of the mass media . |
| 17 | But she was much more still than Shelley , and on the whole very silent , and in her silence was a mournful quality . |
| 18 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |