Example sentences of "are [vb pp] much [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These two easily ( or too easily ) targeted objectives of personality and performance are given much more extensive treatment than the more politically contentious issues of professional status and recognition , and the basic conditions of teachers ' work . |
| 2 | I think the way things are going now the Black people in South Africa are treated much better than they were before , but they used to be treated terribly , and after all it was their country . |
| 3 | Pricing restraints are treated much more harshly than non-price restraints . |
| 4 | For instance , half a dozen A's are included much later because as Miller explained varieties of Aloe and Agave had only recently flowered in the Chelsea Garden for the first time and could not have appeared before . |
| 5 | The Balakovo reactors are regulated by a pressurized water system and are considered much safer than the older type of reactor installed at Chernobyl , the site of the world 's worst nuclear accident in 1986 . |
| 6 | In essence , he argues , certain forms of conduct which were once forbidden are now allowed , and are regulated much less formally than they once were . |
| 7 | Dividend pay-outs are much lower in Japan and Germany than in Britain and America , but this is not the only or even the main source of returns to shareholders : they receive capital gains ( indeed they prefer them in Japan , where dividends are taxed much more heavily than capital gains ) and , especially in Japan , gain business advantages through shareholdings in customers or suppliers , for instance . |
| 8 | Professional qualifications are stipulated much more commonly than academic degrees . |
| 9 | All of these matters are embraced much more enthusiastically in the Supplement than they were in the original design bulletin . |
| 10 | After many years of National Trust-going , I have found that visits to historic properties are made much easier if you take the right equipment with you , and now I would n't dream of going anywhere without at least the following : |
| 11 | It can be seen that comparisons between the sub-groups are made much easier if they have been sampled in this way ; there is no problem of having to cope with a preponderance of one group and a dearth of another if stratification has taken place beforehand . |
| 12 | Assemble edits are made much easier if the camera-originals are all shot on one cassette . |
| 13 | There may be aspects of your business that are performed much better by non-competitors . |
| 14 | Clearly , the mats are deposited much more rapidly than the surrounding nannofossil ooze so that the assumptions of uniform sedimentation rates between age ‘ picks ’ , upon which most palaeoceanographic techniques rely , are invalid . |
| 15 | I had been used to analysing speech — such as in a radio discussion — which ran at an average rate of 300 syllables a minute , depending of course on such variables as personality and regional accent ( for some accents are spoken much more rapidly than others ) . |
| 16 | Experience to date has shown that dates for Proofs under the Optional Procedure are allocated much quicker than for an ordinary action . |
| 17 | However , I would suggest that this is due more to luck than judgement , having noticed that the nut has been heavily shimmed in order to raise it , compensating for string slots which are cut much too deeply . |
| 18 | For the sequence T(AT) 8 CG(AT) 15 ( Figure 1b and 2b ) the ApT steps are cut much better than the single central GA site . |
| 19 | Orders are processed much faster and the firm has cut procurement costs by $10m a year . |
| 20 | This may have been caused by the heating and lighting used at that time , or perhaps modern communications plus far better fire fighting methods available today ensure that incidents are tackled much more quickly . |
| 21 | Most of the skills , especially sporting skills , are learnt much earlier . |