Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 2 | If there is no preparedness to see extensive nationalization of the worst offending corporations and if there is no political or national will to place public officials on the boards of directors to guarantee that ‘ our ’ interests are given as much consideration as those of the corporation , then clearly the will to control corporations has atrophied in the withering light of pragmatism . |
| 3 | Do you think students are given too much time to respond to each stimulus or not enough ? |
| 4 | During the 20th century the average person in Western society has been eating too much fat and too little fibre . |
| 5 | The attitudinal function has been given so much importance in past work on intonation that it will be discussed separately in this chapter , though it should eventually become clear that it overlaps considerably with the discourse function . |
| 6 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 7 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 8 | At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed . |
| 9 | If you think you are eating too much salt , the first thing to do is to go easy on the amount you sprinkle on food and use in cooking . |
| 10 | If so , what was this creature , that had stood before him naked and singular , but concealed multitudes ? ; this power Chant had said possessed no friends ( it has only ADORERS AND UNDOERS , he 'd written ) and had been done as much harm in these dealings ( again , Chant 's words ) as Estabrook , to whom Chant had offered his contrition and his prayers ? |
| 11 | I have no doubt that we could around that figure but the Chief Officer rightly believes and indeed Her Majesty 's Inspector rightly believes that we are operating too much technology most of the time . |
| 12 | It has not been revealed how much money the Bulgers have been paid for the interview , but the figure is thought to be in the five-figure bracket . |
| 13 | There is probably no better example of an industry and a sector in which economic policies are causing so much damage . |
| 14 | This applies to all disputes , but it is the territorial disputes with religious backgrounds that are causing so much suffering , and which so badly need a completely new criterion against which they can be judged . |
| 15 | The trouble is , we 're bringing so much stuff in it 's just the amount of space ! |
| 16 | You 're using too much water ma . |
| 17 | You 're causing too much aggravation , Carter , you hear me ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ They 're pumping so much rubbish into her ! |
| 19 | That we 're paying too much income tax . |
| 20 | But today , it 's one bu everything 's , everything works alright today cos they 're getting so much money you see . |
| 21 | You 're getting too much mouth on you for one as does n't earn her keep . |
| 22 | The girls plan to pitch their talents against the boys at the end of term , so they 're getting as much practice as possible . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're doing too much thinking . |
| 24 | Perhaps you 're doing too much Fred and not resting it . |
| 25 | Faced with those kind of possible reductions in service , if there is a penny one penny more than necessary spent on administration and bureaucracy wherever it is in the youth and community programme that is gon na be less money for front line vision and the Labour group can have to think very , very carefully about that and the issue is gon na be that if we 're spending too much money or if they 're coming back to supplementary estimates which wo n't be available er given the financial situation next year if we 're having two heads of centres or whatever when we could have one that is gon na mean less money for front line services to the people of Highfields and there 'll only be one group that will be responsible for that , if that does come about and I think that 's something that we all need to bear in mind because what we were told as members of that committee is that the youth and community budget is gon na be in for some very serious times in the future and it 's mainly the government 's fault because of the way they 've decided to re-organise the situation it 's going out of our hands into the control of an unelected body and like most members of this council I think we would oppose that but that 's the reality of the situation and I could not support any increase of funds er for any community centres if I knew it was simply gon na be spent on administration . |
| 26 | However , if you feel they 're spending too much time on this , you can have a hostile Ghost arrive and attack . |
| 27 | And they 're losing so much money they 're selling it . |
| 28 | They say yes you 're allowed so much money to have your house fixed and they fix it . |
| 29 | not even go into it , because what happens is they 're allowed so much funding in a year and if the budget runs out half way through , that 's every body out of work . |
| 30 | flood it with oxygen , and you 're putting so much oxygen in that the normal mechanism of the oxygen combining with the haemoglobin in the red blood cells is bypassed and the oxygen under high pressure will actually dissolve straight into the bloodstream . |