Example sentences of "be [adv] much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most ceramics are not much better than glass in this respect but the ductile metals , such as wrought iron , mild steel , copper and aluminium , have works of fracture which are enormously higher than their free surface energies and range between 10 4 and 10 6 J/m 2 . |
| 2 | Modern tackle has given today 's anglers a great advantage and simple things such as float control are now much easier than they must have been in the silk line and gut era . |
| 3 | The minimum latency period should be not much less than ten times the period between offline runs . |
| 4 | By then he had been encouraged by the success of The Idea of a Christian Society ( 1940 ) though it is sobering to reflect that the sales , so he told me , were not much more than 6,000 copies . |
| 5 | The professional were not much better than the amateurs at distinguishing the irons but were better than the amateurs at spotting the shaft differences between the woods . |
| 6 | The second-half power cut hardly mattered because Oldham , embarrassingly inept as three goals punctuated the first half , were not much better when they were allowed to play . |
| 7 | The air pressure against the side walls is generally much less than p s and except near the back of the cylinder is small compared with the axial stress . |
| 8 | One suspects that in the end , they see no real use in either ‘ dick-tionaries ’ or dictionaries : a feminist orthodoxy is not much better than a sexist one . |
| 9 | More riskily , the budget announced in December was based on the assumption that the oil price would average $22 a barrel for the year ; it is not much more than $17 now . |
| 10 | And yet , the astonishing fact is that the H.T. that we know and take for granted today is not much more than a hundred years old , generally accepted as having originated in 1867 with the variety called ‘ La France ’ . |
| 11 | It must be said , though , that in Schopenhauerian eyes the Greeks are in fact less compelling instructors than Shakespeare ; and that tragedy as a whole is not much more than one of several " quietives of the will " which it is the function of art in general to provide . |
| 12 | No it 's not m it 's not much it 's not much further than . |
| 13 | It 's not much further than . |
| 14 | Why it 's not much more than twelve hours since I saw you . ’ |
| 15 | Medical treatment for hay fever is now much better than it used to be . |
| 16 | But lame Lucca skipped and dived into dark recesses at Signor Fixit 's commands barked out in Italian that was not much better than Molly 's . |
| 17 | The body itself was not much more than five feet tall , the coffin measuring five foot 6 inches in length . |
| 18 | After all , it was not much more than five years since the Westminster Abbey wedding that thrilled the nation , if not the world . |
| 19 | It sounds complicated , but the whole sailing distance was not much more than two miles . |
| 20 | Perhaps he was n't much better than Dalziel . |
| 21 | I toyed with the idea of taking it myself , and hiding it somewhere , but it was almost too heavy for me to carry , and there was nowhere much nearer than the house itself where it could be hidden . |