Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [be] much [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could cars be designed to be much more efficient than the eighteen percent you quote ? |
| 2 | Working on a quality paper , where journalists have more room for the finer points and a more informed audience , is considered to be much less demanding . |
| 3 | Indeed , they may be considered to be much more practical than the visions given to us by politicians and hence may be more likely to have support . |
| 4 | Supermarket and shop owners , having anticipated the price freeze by raising prices in advance , refused to restock with meat , milk , rice and cooking oil , claiming that it was now uneconomic to sell such products ; general shortages of basic food commodities and the growth of a black market for food were reported to be much more prevalent than during the previous four price freezes since 1986 . |
| 5 | But when it comes to ensuring that public bodies act reasonably and within their powers , it is often felt to be much less clear how the law ought to be enforced . |
| 6 | One aim of the network would be to hasten the entry of new research into clinical practice — a process that most researchers have long felt to be much too slow . |
| 7 | Lim 's sources of information were seen to be much more effective than the Army 's compromised intelligence gathering network , as evidenced by the fact that four of the chief rebel officers captured since the coup attempt had been tracked down and arrested by the police . |
| 8 | There are different opinions about the exact risk involved in oral sex , but it is generally understood to be much less risky than penetrative sex . |
| 9 | Exactly what the sea anemone gains from this relationship is not known , but crabs with anemones on their shells are known to be much less vulnerable to attack by octopuses . |
| 10 | The African land snail , by contrast , is now known to be much more choosy , with a complex courtship in which suitors are often unceremoniously rejected . |
| 11 | In addition the infrared detectors have proved to be much more stable than anyone had dared to predict . |
| 12 | It seem to me erm that was er much more intended to be much more restrictive I think than than I would suggest our policy E two is now . |
| 13 | In the last few decades , however , the simple atoms of the early atomic theories have been discovered to be much more complex than was originally thought , and physicists are continually finding more and more sub-atomic particles . |
| 14 | Battles had begun to be much more dispersed affairs , but the internal-combustion engine had not yet scattered them over hundreds of miles . |