Example sentences of "much [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such devotion is to be admired , no matter how much facial hair you have to keep you warm . |
| 2 | Language has too much inherent ambiguity to enable solely bottom-up processing . |
| 3 | I could n't be certain how much painkilling medication she had taken , but it was almost certainly not enough . |
| 4 | Not so much prudish , thought Julia , as snobbish . |
| 5 | No more than a couple of good songs and much sub-Jagger ligging and leering with the Rats ; Do They Know It 's Christmas ? ; a mediocre first solo album ; and there the list peters out . |
| 6 | This may have been as much due to tradition as to limited supplies or tin . |
| 7 | The backs of my legs were trembling at that time , but this was probably as much due to the cold as to the feeling of betrayal that had invaded my being . |
| 8 | Carlo was made a cardinal at 22 and Archbishop of Milan at 26 , though it has been suggested that these appointments were as much due to the boy 's uncle being Pope Pius IV as to any inherent abilities . |
| 9 | This is an interesting monument because the architect , Rodolfo Vantini , who completed the work in 1828 , wanted to get away from the conventional Roman triumphal arch , ( a decision said to have been as much due to the local inhabitants complaining that they did not want their view of the Lombardian Pre-Alps blocked as to any creative urge ) . |
| 10 | I am sure our experience with our youngest child has been very much due to the fact that the whole family has been involved . |
| 11 | The extra pound a day for their film work did little to compensate for their tiredness which surely must have been as much due to under-nourishment as overwork . |
| 12 | Given these assertions , it is easy to see that one reason for the neglect of Freud by sociologists , especially in Britain and to a lesser extent in the United States , is as much due to the fact that intellectual fashions have changed as to anything intrinsic to Freud 's theory . |
| 13 | Any feeling of insecurity in the reader 's mind concerning this dual interpretation of unc is not so much due to the perversity of the author but is rather due to the dual role that the public at large expects x to play . |
| 14 | That I became a more understanding teacher was very much due to Basil and the tradition which he had established . |
| 15 | It is as much due to his neglect as my intervention that you find yourself thus , cut off from normal society . |
| 16 | She felt that her success had been very much due to the ‘ enterprise society ’ . |
| 17 | Governments must both deliver economic success — hard enough — and yet avoid too much short-term social injustice , which may be harder still . |
| 18 | Many of the more readily available forms of medication treat the symptom and , of course , much short-term relief can be obtained in this way . |
| 19 | He ca n't do very much short-term about the federal deficit , although he 's sharp enough to see that borrowing short-term cuts interest costs . |
| 20 | Carol Heiz , professor at the Université de Nanterre and specialist in Carolingian architecture , has compared the situation with the unsupervised work carried out at Poitiers twelve years ago which destroyed the traces of much Gallo-Roman material . |
| 21 | How much bloody time do you want ? ’ |
| 22 | Police work involves so much bloody paperwork these days and a lot of boring stuff that a family row can quite spice up a night . |
| 23 | And if it 's meant to be a surprise attack , why are they making so much bloody noise ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Listen to that Amy , that Jerry plane that crashed in the park did n't make as much bloody row as 'im . ’ |
| 25 | Too much bloody risk . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've wasted too much bloody time today as it is . |
| 27 | Too much bloody hassle . |
| 28 | Well if they owe us money and stuff like that , we might have to be going to court in the end with it but the only trouble is , we 're losing that much bloody time taking a day off and going down there ! |
| 29 | Too much bloody mess . |
| 30 | We 've just given them so much bloody and if your houses are in bad condition go to your council ! |