Example sentences of "be [adv] much a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the work of Bottomley and Coleman ( 1981 ) criminal statistics are so much a function of highly variable administrative practices that they seem almost incapable of telling us anything about anything . |
| 2 | To confront the anger of God in the way the ancient Israelites dared to do , to face it as directed against ourselves and the society of which we are so much a part , is to escape the romantic pretence , the unrelieved jollity , or the easy , unthinking speech of so much that passes for Christian belief and worship . |
| 3 | Any would be magnificent and there is time to knit several of them for ‘ specials ’ but I have n't said anything yet about small ‘ fun ’ presents and decorations which are so much a part of Christmas . |
| 4 | He did not enjoy it as he had the fishing that had been so much a part of his life on La Blanquilla . |
| 5 | ‘ The Nightingale ’ provides a record of one of the evening walks shared by Coleridge and the Wordsworths which had been so much a part of their lives together . |
| 6 | She had been so much a part of his plans for the future that he was now thinking of countries where they could farm together . |
| 7 | Seb thought she looked thinner and seemed to have lost much of the air of confidence that had always been so much a part of her . |
| 8 | The baby is well and so am I. You have always been so much a mother that I am not surprised that you feel like a grandmother , even without ‘ legal sanction ’ . |
| 9 | Even as Acheson pondered the problem Smith argues that the US was already moving toward support of the French although it might not have been so much a matter of whose hand was on the tiller as how the compass was being set . |
| 10 | That 's the way the world works , and we 're as much a part of it as anyone else . |
| 11 | I am as much a captive as my half-brother . |
| 12 | ‘ I am as much a Chinaman as a Frenchman , ’ Flaubert declared . |
| 13 | Friction between locals and newcomers has been as much a function of this as of any other factor , a conflict between the aesthetic appreciation of the qualities of the English countryside and a utilitarian assessment of its productive capacity . |
| 14 | In important respects , however , his longing was a self-deception , a poetically fruitful means of expressing that sense of loneliness and isolation which had been as much a part of him in Ottery as in London . |
| 15 | Racist atrocity has been as much a part of the American experience of war as any other nation . |
| 16 | The disappearance had naturally been as much a mystery to him as anyone else … |
| 17 | Better to remember that he had called her sweetheart tonight , and it had been as much a sham as his kiss . |
| 18 | Remembered as a son of the King Cenberht who had been a co-ruler of the western Saxons with Cenwealh before his death in the 660s ( see above , p. 49 ) , he may have been as much a victim of the impact of earlier Mercian expansion under Wulfhere as of internal strife . |
| 19 | The complaints , cautions and convictions for offences relating to animals in the UK are horrifying , and are as much a reflection of the relative toughness of our laws as the number of predominantly domestic pets kept per capita . |
| 20 | These centralized schemes are as much a reflection of adequate financial support as co-ordination . |
| 21 | Now those clothes are as much a trademark as were Andy Warhol 's ill-fitting silver wigs . |
| 22 | Presents from returning travellers or presents for your hostess are as much a sign of manners to the hareem as they are to us . |
| 23 | So leadership elections are as much a threat as an opportunity for the left . |
| 24 | As part of the audience you are as much a part of the entertainment as the performance itself , and this is something that dramatists are aware of and have always written for . |
| 25 | They are as much a part of Milan as La Scala or the Galleria Vittore Emmanuele . |
| 26 | Whinges about the black market for centre-court tickets are as much a part of the Wimbledon tennis championships as thunderstorms are — but this year 's new rules mean that any tout reselling tickets at Wimbledon next month could end up in a magistrate 's court . |
| 27 | ‘ They are as much a part of our heritage as buildings and landscape , ’ he says . |
| 28 | They are as much a part of a history of sexuality as the grander organisation of sexual codes . |
| 29 | The 80-strong standing orchestra , the many-acred hats department and all the job-for-life people are as much a part of its history as The Blue Angel and Metropolis . |
| 30 | Outworn devices which are no longer functional in the defamiliarization process are as much a part of the work 's material as ideas or aspects of real life . |