Example sentences of "are [adj] [verb] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | FEW PEOPLE WAITING EXPECTANTLY to board the passenger liner QE2 for the holiday of a lifetime are likely to give much thought to the part that ICI 's Chlor-chemicals business will be playing in their journey . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it is possible to identify a number of matters which are likely to demand much attention in the early nineties . |
| 3 | Some of the greatest novels ever written , James 's ‘ great fluid puddings ’ , are hard to make much of in purely aesthetic or formalistic terms . |
| 4 | Whatever happens , the TV viewer of the future looks likely to be presented with a bewildering array of alternative television systems , that are unlikely to do much for the sales of HDTV or any other wide-screen television . |
| 5 | Where there are no established rules to guide decision we must make a direct judgement as to what will have the best consequences , concentrating on the more immediate and those we are personally most motivated to promote , as the remote future is highly unpredictable and we are unlikely to do much to promote what is not personally inviting . |
| 6 | This is a place where you are unlikely to spend much money . |
| 7 | You are unlikely to see much of this fish during the day since it is crepuscular , so you will need to provide hiding places for it . |
| 8 | You are unlikely to see much of this fish during the day so provide hiding places for it . |
| 9 | This year sales are unlikely to reach much more than one and a half million . |
| 10 | The benefits of a centralised distribution system may include a small rate of tax on the centre 's activities , but since these are unlikely to include much added value to the products being distributed , the scope for manipulating transfer prices is limited . |
| 11 | But they are unlikely to have much of an appetite this morning . |
| 12 | The people in the company who will have to run the system , the manager or director in whose department the system will be installed ought to be involved in the selection process , but such people are unlikely to have much knowledge of computers and computer software although they may be familiar with word processing and spreadsheet systems running on microcomputers . |
| 13 | People are unlikely to pay much more attention to his decisions just because there has been some fiddling with the constitution . |
| 14 | American and European firms are unlikely to get much of a look in . |
| 15 | But punters are unlikely to get much value for the grey in this competitive 25runner handicap and , as Daru had to be ridden out for his last two victories , he is worth opposing . |
| 16 | Unless working-class children are given linguistic means of control over the disciplines of the curriculum , and situations in the outside world , they are unlikely to stand much chance of being upwardly mobile . |
| 17 | We are unlikely to find much evidence one way or the other just by reading judicial opinions at random , for judges are unlikely to explain why they believe what everyone believes . |
| 18 | Techniques that can not readily be proven analytically are unlikely to gain much engineering credence . |
| 19 | Equally , common law remedies are riddled with so many complexities that they are unlikely to exercise much deterrent effect on conglomerate entities operating behind Chinese Walls . |
| 20 | Ports at a distance from the Tunnel , whether dealing principally in passenger or freight traffic , are unlikely to suffer much loss of business after 1993 . |
| 21 | For the same reason , they are unable to hold much water within the shell and are , in consequence , at risk from desiccation at low tide . |
| 22 | We are cut off from their happy little world which we know nothing about and are unable to recognise much of our ways within theirs . |
| 23 | Tasks which require subjects to read and respond to sentences and which furnish precise data on the time course of their reading , are able to reveal much more about sentence processing . |