Example sentences of "be much [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sometimes ( no , often ) feel that you are much more than eighteen months older than me . |
| 2 | They are much more than just quaint old fashioned words . |
| 3 | Decision-making tends to be much slower and this is often the reason for such slowness . |
| 4 | As the program time needed to send each step command is likely to be much less than 0.1 ms the processor has spare capacity for other tasks . |
| 5 | The most that a strategy can realistically hope to win in an average one of its 1 5 pairings can not be much more than 600 points . |
| 6 | The most that a strategy can realistically hope to win in an average one of its 15 pairings can not be much more than 600 points . |
| 7 | " It ca n't be much more than eleven , " said Alice . |
| 8 | It may not be much more than forty per cent of the voters , leaving the non-voters and the remaining sixty per cent of those who took part in the election to be governed by an administration which is not of their choosing . |
| 9 | Post-Darwinian geologists had assigned vast tracts of time for the operations of forces still believed by us to have shaped the Earth ; but they were challenged on the grounds that thermodynamics could demonstrate that the Sun and the Earth could not be much more than fifty million years old . |
| 10 | The cathedral was constructed in the form of a T , the horizontal limb being much longer than the vertical , stretching away into the endless dark . |
| 11 | Nearly all of Dad 's acquaintances were called ‘ Johnny ’ , this being much easier than having to remember every man 's christian name . |
| 12 | Cos in a very profound sense this is true , and I was so glad that it was I think a very serious part of the flow of Dr Stuart 's report that he mentioned that the er s sense of the ministry of the whole people of God as being much more than a distant objective for us , but something of absolutely essential , vital importance to the whole life and service and outreach of the church . |
| 13 | In fact , as Christmas has been disappointing here I ca n't really foresee this year being much better than 1992 . ’ |
| 14 | The weather , being much better than expected , allowed us to take a gentle stroll and some light refreshment . |
| 15 | Now on tornado the development costs erm I know , exceeded the original expectation by quite a considerable margin but the production costs were much less and overall , taking the two lots together , it turned out to be a good buy . |
| 16 | Our most obvious support is through cash donations , but often it 's much more than that . |
| 17 | Do n't think it 's much more than that . |
| 18 | The amount of time , officer time taken to process an application for a modification to an existing permission is still substantial and in some cases can be even more than that per a new proposal , but in those circumstances , and this is just by way of illustration because the the actual fee regime is , is very variable , by way of illustration the fee chargeable for a a , a modification is much less than for the application as a whole er f for , for the er er working as a whole . |
| 19 | In general , this is a general point , the ionic selectivity of such channels is much less than for voltage gated channels . |
| 20 | It is much more that he seems to be playing games . |
| 21 | It was much later that I realized my subconscious tendency towards preferring complicated solutions , merely to demonstrate my clever mental logic . |
| 22 | Well because the labour in say this country is over productive , this has an awful lot of categories attached to each unit of labour , that 's why labour is very productive , is that you for each unit of labour employed there might be ten units of capital , I E there are chemicals etcetera , the reason why erm this this pressure on the land in say Africa , Africa , even though the density of population was much less and that there 's virtually no capital there , right , so in order to produce the food , you know the labour has to till the soil by hand and spread the seed by hand |
| 23 | While the government later indicated that it had merely given drafting assistance , it is abundantly clear that its influence on the Bill was much more than one would normally associate with drafting assistance . |