Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of heads ( and , therefore , the chance of becoming one ) was higher in primary education , where schools were much smaller , but there were hardly any senior teachers or scale 4 posts . |
| 2 | The first results of the demonstration and violence were much the same as after the Olympia meeting in 1934 ; there was an immediate stimulus to recruitment for both fascists and communists and Special Branch estimated the significant , if transient , boost to fascist membership in East London to be around 2,000 . |
| 3 | He claimed that there were places in the past where ‘ men 's lives were longer , when plain homely diet and bodily labour were much used , and shorter when more civiliz 'd times delighted in idleness , and wanton luxury ’ . |
| 4 | The Edwardians were much perturbed by what was known as the problem of ‘ boy labour ’ and the structural unemployment which was built into the labour market for youths . |
| 5 | Headteachers were much more optimistic about tackling casual truancy , skipping days here and there , than they were about tackling persistent truancy , sustained absence from school over weeks and months . |
| 6 | Beyond doubt the Maldive Islands in the Bay of Bengal were much the richest source in southern Asia at the time of the Arab and Portuguese domination of the Indian Ocean . |
| 7 | The youngster 's inclusion in the side earned him the name ‘ Boy Bastin' , as seventeen-year-olds in League football were much scarcer than now , and Bastin was in a class of his own with the fierceness of his shot , as a teaser of defences and as an expert penalty-taker . |
| 8 | What also became clear was that computers were much better used with generic programs than with specific software designed to teach , say , mathematics , history or geography . |
| 9 | Whatever the differences among the Europeans themselves , those with the United States were much more important . |
| 10 | He also stated that although in acute illness low potencies could be effective , in chronic conditions high potencies were much more likely to produce good results if the most similar remedy could be discerned . |
| 11 | The Roman Emperors were much more slippery than anyone gives them credit for . |
| 12 | The halls were much smaller than the rock star could have filled and concert hall operators became suspicious . |
| 13 | We shall not have his own view of his archiepiscopal obligations in proper perspective unless we realize that local territorial disputes were much more likely to precipitate a final crisis than any ecclesiastical issue . |
| 14 | Although industrial disputes were much less common than food riots , historians have recently come to recognise that they were much more frequent than had been allowed . |
| 15 | The colourful pictures were much the same , the number of PWRs around the world had increased , but there was one major difference . |
| 16 | British parties were much in evidence , pursuing climbs like Pic Coolidge via the South Ridge ( F ) from the Temple Ecrins hut for the views , and Les Bans by the E.N.E. Ridge ( PD/PD+ ) from the Pilatte hut — what Collomb claims is ‘ One of the best general mountaineering routes in the park . ’ |
| 17 | Scholars and gentlemen were much given to complaining of the venality and corruption of stationers , but Martyn was to a large extent an exception . |
| 18 | Arrows , crossbow-bolts and throwing-spears flew , but the enemy were much the more vulnerable , and the attempt failed . |
| 19 | I mean you 'll always erm get some controversy somewhere , but having said that , the referees were much much better this last year . |
| 20 | The wounds suggest that these dinosaurs were much more territorially inclined than had been thought . |
| 21 | THE terrifying Jurassic Park dinosaurs were much noisier in the film than they would have been in real life , a scientist said today . |
| 22 | Since his famous experiment in 1752 when he flew a kite during a thunderstorm , and via a key and a wet thread safely discharged the power of a thunderstorm into the earth , his lightning rods were much sought after . |
| 23 | My eyes were much better , but the tiny writing in the Angria books was too small for me . |
| 24 | Knowledge levels about private sector homes were much lower . |
| 25 | Animals were much in the news . |
| 26 | However , the published report made no mention of the fact that the earliest full-range loudspeakers were much inferior to the ones we have today . |
| 27 | But resident tutors were much appreciated by the WEA : they were admirable colleagues for the tutor-organisers , doing what they could to help and advise the branches in their counties , and they had a particular responsibility for promoting Tutorial Classes . |
| 28 | When Cliff was transferred back to Watford in early May 1965 our supporters were much displeased but today Cliff is remembered at Selhurst Park with enormous pleasure by those who were privileged to see him play , and he was , without question , one of the most inspiring players ever to have appeared in the Palace colours . |
| 29 | By that time her leg was fine , and her manners were much better than before . |
| 30 | These questionnaires were much resented and the L.C.C . |