Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | The climactic series of explosions of 27 August added volumes of fresh material to the already huge eruption column above the volcano , and some estimates suggest that it rose as much as eighty kilometres into the air . |
| 2 | When I read that junior Ministers are interfering with the curriculum , I get worried , because I do not think that they know very much about it . |
| 3 | I would however prefer that you got as much advice as possible from the books first . |
| 4 | Some natural sediments such as pyroclastic debris , glacial tills and weathered crystalline rock products exhibit linear plots on Rosin paper , suggesting that they behave very much as crushed products , but the similarity vanishes swiftly with transport after which they rapidly come to resemble more commonly encountered materials transported and deposited from natural fluids . |
| 5 | It is most curious to see that you have so much time on your hands that you are able to simply wander about this house bothering others with gratuitous comments . ’ |
| 6 | They participated more fully in the intellectual and political life of their time — some argued that they participated too much — and reflected their society 's values , again , perhaps , too much if the criticisms of the ‘ social gospel ’ were accepted . |
| 7 | Yeltsin had given a dramatic description of tanks closing in and said that he believed that he had not much time left . |
| 8 | same leg , so erm , see Gary moans at me that I , he says that I eat too much erm salt , now if I was to eat that much salt I would n't get cramp |
| 9 | ‘ Constanza says that she felt so much for her mother , even if she did not understand then what it meant to her to be cut off from Italy , from Rome . |
| 10 | It has been said that he gave too much of himself in his idealistic way , and that the ‘ political football ’ aspects of the CBC in eastern Canada , where he was finally transferred , caused a breakdown in health and his early retirement . |
| 11 | " How can you say that , how can you say that , " said Clelia , " by saying that you are condemning me , you 're criticizing me , you 're implying that I talk too much , God knows I do , but surely you could do better ? |
| 12 | One of the messages from the Bill may be that bringing in those schemes and making them work is one way in which the engineers can show that they have as much to contribute in cutting the number of casualties as those who deal with the behavioural side of driving and those who build the bypasses that take traffic away from towns and villages . |
| 13 | In fairness to the LTA , in the particular circumstances of the time , I do not believe that they had very much option . |
| 14 | ‘ It shocks a lot of people , they do n't believe that I eat so much . |
| 15 | The US and the Anglo-Saxon countries , for example , complain that it spends too much time and makes too little progress on basic standards , which they see as of benefit to developing countries alone . |
| 16 | Though some local followers complain that she spends too much time in West End theatres and not enough in party meetings , Miss Jackson seems well-informed about her part of London , down-to-earth and fully committed to becoming a Labour MP . |
| 17 | But I ca n't see that it matters very much . |
| 18 | In fact , of one refers to the practices of Muhammad , which are the main Muslim Texts , one sees that they deal as much with politics , government , the struggle against tyrants , as with prayers . " |
| 19 | To begin with , young girls and women are frequently told that they talk too much , that they make facile use of words , that they chatter idly . |
| 20 | Unisys Corp and Honeywell Inc say they have settled the pending lawsuits over the sale of the Sperry Aerospace Group to Honeywell in December 1986 — Honeywell reckoned that it paid too much because Unisys held back material information ; Unisys will make a pre-tax payment to Honeywell of $43.2m over three years toward a $70m total settlement , with the remaining funding coming from insurance and an investment banking firm ; as a result of the settlement , Unisys will report a net extraordinary charge of $26.4m against its first quarter figures for the period to March 31 ; it says the charge will be offset by a larger than expected net gain from implementing the FASB 106 and FASB 109 accounting changes that it already announced it would make . |
| 21 | Although at this stage of my work I shared interests with him on matters concerning children 's learning and Art Education , I quickly discovered that I had so much more to learn from him about ideas , materials and their uses and in the need to create a working environment of a high order . |
| 22 | That is not bad considering that it spends so much of its time pulling a boat around . |
| 23 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 24 | It is difficult not to believe that they attached too much importance to Law 's availability . |
| 25 | I believe that they lie as much , or even more , in the form in the ground plan which the buildings and the natural objects together make . |
| 26 | At the time it had seemed that they shared so much that they must have some mystic chain binding them together . |
| 27 | But if you know the difference between guitar sounds that you hear on the radio , for instance , then I would maintain that you know too much . |
| 28 | I feel that we rely too much on the present state of affairs , too much on uniformitarianism , when interpreting the fossil record , especially in those groups that are now completely extinct or but a shadow of their former selves . |
| 29 | On the other hand , some may never have placed such emphasis on independence in their lives , or never felt that they had very much independence in the first place . |
| 30 | Some teachers identified an increase in paperwork and one felt that he spent too much time trying to raise the money for new projects from sources outside school before the head took the request for funding seriously . |