Example sentences of "much [adv] [subord] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shadow budget was also politically inept , although its positive features could have been defended much better than they were . |
| 2 | Chivers , providing dynamic leadership as Derry get ready for their most important match since last year 's Ulster decider , is adamant that the side can play much , much better than they did in the McKenna climax . |
| 3 | Although there can never be any guarantees , it is frequently the case that older children enjoy working with younger ones , enjoy the responsibility they are being given , and behave much better than they do when they are working on their own . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The second-half power cut hardly mattered because Oldham , embarrassingly inept as three goals punctuated the first half , were not much better when they were allowed to play . |
| 6 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 7 | Office blocks , shopping centres , universities , new flats , renovated flats , office blocks , office blocks , they do n't really build churches much anymore cos they do n't need them , erm what else do they build ? |
| 8 | c The past 3 years have destroyed the myth that elderly dementing people can not play a role in the running of a nursing home — we have seen even severe Alzheimer residents respond to normalization programme and reality orientation work and enjoy it and , indeed , remain at a plateau much longer than they would otherwise have done ( highly subjective comment , I know ) . |
| 9 | I think they ought to much more than they do , but the plain truth is that they do n't . |
| 10 | We 're fighting much harder than they are . |
| 11 | It is tempting to discuss Freud 's ideas much further since they have permeated modern psychological thinking . |
| 12 | certainly going much further than they did , do n't quite know how far you would go |
| 13 | things would not move much further until they were given a determined push , and MT Crosland was to do just that . |
| 14 | From almost every hilltop it was possible to see the great column of smoke , still far , but much nearer than they had ever seen it before . |
| 15 | When he had been in work he had eaten at 6 o'clock when he got home , but now they ate much later than they had ever done . |
| 16 | Not so much now 'cos they get a bit scared — but used to quite a bit . |
| 17 | 2–0 will be about it , I do n't think City will come out much even if they go a goal down . |
| 18 | We very much hope that that money will help many countries to phase out CFCs much earlier than they might otherwise have done . |
| 19 | I can not say whether or not they impinged as much then as they seem to with retrospect . |
| 20 | Modern tackle has given today 's anglers a great advantage and simple things such as float control are now much easier than they must have been in the silk line and gut era . |
| 21 | Practical solutions require finding more processes and developing a strategy , but some puzzles become much easier because they have many pieces the same . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He notes that successful collusion requires communication between the firms and that this is made much easier if they are able to exchange information about prices , outputs , and costs . |
| 24 | We are told that the global military expenditure every year amounts to £235,000 million , twice as much as the nations spend on health , and half as much again as they spend on education . |
| 25 | The $100m that clubs are paying in players ' wages this year is more than half as much again as they paid in 1990 . |
| 26 | I could go much faster than they could . |
| 27 | Because the characters can be transmitted much faster than they can be printed they are stored , in the printer , in a block of memory known as a buffer . |
| 28 | He thought , privately , that they might be very glad of the horses , because they might find that they came out of the Workshops much faster than they went in , but he did not say this . |