Example sentences of "much [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The natural right to liberty also began to be combined , though much less regularly than in the 1820s , with the conviction from liberal political economy of the greater efficiency and wealth-creating properties of free labour . |
| 2 | But these laws are intended to prevent men from such ‘ wastage ’ of seed , and thus define men much less intrinsically than the blood taboos define women qua women as unclean . |
| 3 | Hence , the emphasis of our work which , broadly speaking , is concerned with helping either organizations , by which I mean galleries and arts centres , or individuals , in other words artists , craftsmen , photographers , and is increasingly directed to the former in the belief that if we can help them , these centres and galleries , towards adequate levels of staffing and expertise , they in their turn , and much less artificially than we , will be able to help the individual artist . |
| 4 | If your crops fail , or grow much less prolifically than your neighbour 's , then it is due to witchcraft . |
| 5 | German uses the passive much less frequently than English . |
| 6 | This is particularly the case for reasoning , where the group of deaf people performs much less well than hearing groups . |
| 7 | First , the dollar is still ‘ fundamentally undervalued ’ , and by quite a margin — that is , a dollar buys much less abroad than it does at home . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The airlines that fly between them were hit much less severely than American and European rivals by the slump in air travel during the Gulf war and they are bouncing back more quickly . |
| 10 | Lloyds is no more outlandish or intrusive than Tower Bridge and much less so than the monstrous and melancholy Battersea Power Station , a sublime work of imperious architecture that Londoners once loved to hate but now admire . |
| 11 | Though television was pro-government and pro-Conservative it was much less so than other elements of the mass media . |
| 12 | They became strong and agile swimmers , still vulnerable to attack but much less so than the invertebrates . |
| 13 | The only problem is that it is messy and somewhat smelly , though much less so than it used to be . |
| 14 | Even the ticking-over rate of about 10 pulses per second is probably quite costly , but much less so than the maximum rate of 200 per second . |
| 15 | Many " awkward " classes become much less so if some exploration in depth is attempted of the kind of points discussed in this chapter . |
| 16 | For example , a particular view may appear convincing at first sight , but become much less so when more rigorous analysis exposes certain implicit assumptions , or hitherto unnoticed consequences . |
| 17 | But if the idea of this procedure is simple , the practice is much less so because of the problems involved . |
| 18 | What I what I what I would say is something I found in in BES has happened while I 've been here much less now than than earlier on , is engineers robbing Peter to pay Paul . |
| 19 | Consistent with this , the homologous Vmw175 DNA binding domain , and also intact Vmw175 , recognize the gene 62 binding sites much less efficiently than the 140k DNA binding domain . |
| 20 | If wages had not risen , most of this scrapping would not have happened and productivity would have grown much less quickly than it did . |
| 21 | It may be somewhat longer ( much less often than men claim or fantasise ) or , especially in some physical disorders , somewhat shorter . |
| 22 | Drums much less often than Great Spotted . |
| 23 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 24 | It 's all much better now than it was . |
| 25 | Multinationals , they have erm , , doing much better abroad than it is doing in France . |
| 26 | And that the the return from the investment in the employee assistance programme will be many many er much much more than it would be er the actual cost of running it . |
| 27 | Sometimes the possible link can be from much longer ago than a few months and here the memory is almost invariably an unsolved murder case . |
| 28 | ( 1 ) As he was obliged to do , the charging officer ( at a time when the Director was already interesting herself in the matter ) had told the applicant that he was not obliged to say anything ; yet only two weeks later the Serious Fraud Office was warning the applicant that he was going to be interviewed under compulsory powers ; and it was not much longer still before the office formally put him on notice that he would be asked questions which he would be compelled to answer on pain of punishment . |
| 29 | Born in the North at Cesena 56 years ago , he fits the stereotype of rational northern European much more comfortably than that of fiery Latin . |
| 30 | Born in the North at Cesena 56 years ago , he fits the stereotype of rational northern European much more comfortably than that of fiery Latin . |