Example sentences of "very much [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all very well living in London , or , when her mother insisted , at the house in Brighton , but they were not her houses , and although she was almost twenty she was still very much subject to her parents ' control . |
| 2 | ‘ Legally , at least , we 're still very much married . ’ |
| 3 | Thanks very much dear . |
| 4 | Thank you very much dear . |
| 5 | When he said , ‘ Tell me , ’ his voice was very much gentler than it had yet been . |
| 6 | Actually , you need to be very much better than your opponent to benefit from a superiority decision ; a slight difference will not do . |
| 7 | The results confirm that he could have done very much better , but his mind was partly elsewhere , ever active , ever engaged , ever busy . |
| 8 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 9 | They 've improved the chimney recently and it 's very much better than it was but we still get the smells . |
| 10 | In the end , it worked out very much better than expected , essentially because the two companies had outstanding chief executives , both of whom eventually succeeded me as chairman . |
| 11 | For many of these species it is possible to keep them indoors in conditions which are very much better than the average conditions that are used now . |
| 12 | All this made me feel very much better and I immediately wrote my name up on the wall . |
| 13 | A walk before breakfast every day or exercise done after work every day — say a fifteen-minute run , a game of tennis or another walk — is very much better for you than a game of rugby once a week and nothing else . |
| 14 | Not that conditions there were very much better . |
| 15 | One litter a year is quite enough for my needs , and it is in any case very much better to look after one litter properly — it may number eight or a dozen — than to spread the effort ( and the food available ) through a much larger number . |
| 16 | My own preference has always been for the rough-coated variety since these can withstand weather and rough going very much better . |
| 17 | Modern readers are very much better , but they use some expensive technology which goes beyond the scope of do-it-yourself projects . |
| 18 | We 're also experimenting with gauges for low Bs , and the end result seems to be that bigger is very much better . |
| 19 | However after two weeks , the weeping cleared up and she felt very much better , back to her old self of ten years before . |
| 20 | He noticed that her figure was good and that her legs and ankles were very much better than those of the girls he remembered from his days in London before the war . |
| 21 | As I noted in their recent Erato version of the Concerto , the Suisse Romande Orchestra is ‘ in very much better shape that it was in the 1950s and 1960s , and this new account supersedes earlier recommendations ’ . |
| 22 | But that should not stop us from recognising that things are very much better in the '90s than they were in the '70s . |
| 23 | Indeed it will probably contribute to a very much better relationship . |
| 24 | That was very much better . |
| 25 | It is not as efficient as either in their own fields , but performs very much better than they can in a situation where a significant enquiry facility is necessary and where the data is frequently processed sequentially . |
| 26 | What you get will , in fact , be very much better than what you see ! |
| 27 | With a pattern mask , however , performance was very much better when the target was a word than when it was a single letter . |
| 28 | One design may be very much better than another design from which it is only slightly different . |
| 29 | In experimental work on the viscosity of the alkanes over a wide range of temperature Doolittle found however that the simple relation where A and B are constants gave a very much better fit to the experimental data , than the Andrade equation From the discussion we have given it is clear that fv is only a linear function of T if the expansion of the liquid is given by the linear equation and this is only true over small temperature ranges . |
| 30 | But er nowadays of course they do get a very much better chance . |