Example sentences of "much [adv] [subord] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historian Lord Macaulay notes in his diary for 16 January , 1851 : ‘ We talked much together until another party got into the carriage : a canting fellow and a canting woman . |
| 2 | Yeah well you 'll not get it much less than that . |
| 3 | They are also very durable , standing up to frost much better than many housebricks , which need the protection of the house roof . |
| 4 | Gloucestershire is faring much better than many other parts of England . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't need it but I 'll do much better than that . |
| 6 | Not a bit of it — do not know if W. J. Jakimiuk who was responsible for the Chipmunk 's lovely qualities also devised the Beaver 's agile handling , but I should not be surprised if he did , for it flies like a smaller aeroplane , with light forces and a roll-rate much better than that long high-aspect-ratio wing might suggest . |
| 7 | However this still gives considerable reduction , much better than that already seen above for word length , but taken together with some approximate word length measure would be even more effective . |
| 8 | Even if a business was very efficient , he said , it was difficult to generate gross margins of more than 28% , whereas an efficient company in the fast-growing network market could do much better than that . |
| 9 | After Aberdeen last week , we should have offered the fans much better than that . ’ |
| 10 | Knowing I am intelligent , knowing that I am beginning to understand life much better than most people of my age . |
| 11 | You know , nobody 's expecting three or four sides , right , you 've got quarter of an hour , not erm , you know , if , if you can write a side a half you , you 'll be doing much better than most people , alright , so you 're just thinking about a side really , depending on how big your handwriting is . |
| 12 | My sisters belong here , he told himself fiercely , like almonds , like cherries , like the percoco , which blends the sweetness of the almond and the apricot together , much better than those whores he 's talking about . |
| 13 | What can be said with certainty is that the Danes still dance a Bournonville ballet much better than any other company , with far greater understanding and sympathy for its original style . |
| 14 | Not as good as yesterday evening when I dined on roast chicken , not very well cooked , but certainly much better than this homely fare . |
| 15 | To be fair , some stations , for example the one at Hinkley Point in Somerset , have worked much better than this description suggests , and the two latest examples , at Heysham in Lancashire and Torness in Scotland , look more promising . |
| 16 | By 1939 Europe could meet her own needs of agricultural products only in olive oil and wine ; in 1880 she could still do much better than this . |
| 17 | The implication here is , that a man desists from killing animals out of fear that he may be killing a reincarnated soul , but while it may be possible to draw that conclusion , the principle of identity clearly goes much deeper than that , and in fact it could be said to contradict Tillich 's suggestion since that is no more than enlightened self-interest . |
| 18 | Creating our own reality goes much deeper than that . |
| 19 | What I feel goes much deeper than that . |
| 20 | Outlining goes much deeper than that , and can become quite complex , dealing with the way you can handle 3d spreadsheets ( not , I hasten to add , Excel 's , but those from another , competing manufacturer , whose 3d spreadsheets can be imported directly ) . |
| 21 | The problem of the uneven playing-field goes much deeper than those arising from non-compliance . |
| 22 | But the future of this airline could be decided much sooner than that , and with it the levels of service and fares we can all expect on long haul flights . |
| 23 | Much sooner than any of the politicians — ’ |
| 24 | My concern about the caravan site was only a kind of self-importance , and , as a result of my terrible selfishness poor Tom had been frightened in a way that might well scar him for much longer than that little stone . |
| 25 | It probably is n't worth persisting much longer than that , because if a bird does n't respond by then , it 's never likely to . |
| 26 | Erm , I do n't think they live much longer than that . |
| 27 | He was taken out of the garden at put on trial , all the others were gathered together swiftly Normally a Jewish trial would take much longer than this . |
| 28 | One owner after another makes the amused discovery that these simple objects will keep the playful cat or kitten occupied much longer than any fancy toy . |
| 29 | We have understood this crucial point much longer than most of our colleagues , who tend to think in terms of the impact of nature on society , or the reverse . |
| 30 | Our most obvious support is through cash donations , but often it 's much more than that . |