Example sentences of "and [adv] much a " in BNC.

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1 In addition , our use of our mother tongue is often so automatic and habitual , and so much a part of our individual and social identity , that help is needed to stand back and reflect on aspects of language with some degree of objectivity .
2 It became clear that travelling was important to Morris and so much an inspiration that if he ever felt bored at home or lacking in inspiration he just packed a suitcase and got on the nearest train to visit someone .
3 It became clear that travelling was important to Morris and so much an inspiration that if he ever felt bored at home or lacking in inspiration he just packed a suitcase and got on the nearest train to visit someone .
4 Our breath is moist and our sweat evaporates ; one person ‘ produces ’ a quarter of a litre of water during eight hours of sleep , and as much a litre and a half during an active day .
5 Gloucestershire will go into 1990 , hoping for improved results on the field , with a new resolve — and very much a new look .
6 Inputs , such as , for example , a ‘ corporate capability' , are often common to more than one offering , and very much a management concern .
7 He 's a good boy , and very much a boy .
8 This is an attractive and historic place , and very much a river town , having formed around the point where two dynamic Pyrenean torrents , the Gave d'Aspe from high up on the Col du Somport , and the Gave d'Ossau from even higher up on the ruggedly distinctive Pic du Midi d'Ossau , flow together .
9 Drucker outlines the variety of innovative activity , arguing that ‘ innovation is work rather than genius ’ and very much a matter of discipline .
10 Recalling going into Kyle , while I was at Stromefirry-nofirry , and remembering that nightmare vision of the burned-black man after the blevey — Sir Rufus with his black bones , black nails , black wood and his black jaw hinged back and very much a dental-records job — and thinking , How did they identify Andy ?
11 The underlying approach was still remarkably uncritical and very much a matter of assertion and appeal to reason , the message couched in fairly bland terms and over-reliant on a concept of progress from a philistine past .
12 He was a very earnest , very intelligent gentleman — and very much a gentleman , whom I never thought of as particularly ambitious .
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