Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that it is in the interests not only of the United Kingdom but of the whole world that we should seek to pursue much more vigorously the possibility of a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing . |
| 2 | erm the other view , of course , is that medicine should have become much more scientific and that these almost old wives remedies should have been disgraced and discontinued . |
| 3 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 4 | I think that maybe you should have done much more actually , but I I have n't argued because he 's so . |
| 5 | On the criminal side , establishment of the Central Taxing Units should have offered much quicker payment in those cases over £4,000 . |
| 6 | They should have had much better control and devised their computerisation rather more effectively than they did . ’ |
| 7 | According to the World Bank , the proportion of Thais living below the poverty line fell from 59% in 1960 to 26% in 1986 and , with the three years of double-digit economic growth that followed , must have fallen much further since . |
| 8 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 9 | Admittedly Ordovician graptolite zones must have lasted much longer than the ammonite zones of the Mesozoic , but nevertheless the time scale is still surprising . |
| 10 | In turn , the types of constructions in which a verb may appear owe much to its meaning . |
| 11 | The buyer says , tapping a file with his finger , ‘ You 'll have to do much better in terms of price . |
| 12 | Thus in the process of passing the 1833 Act , ‘ a tide which might have run much more strongly in the direction of the ‘ criminalization ’ of the offending employer was effectively stemmed' ( p.138 ) . |
| 13 | He believes that had he remained in Belfast , his elevation to the Ulster team and the Irish squad might have come much earlier . |
| 14 | The primary mechanism suggested for this relationship of war with advances in social welfare is political : that the demands of total war forced government to make concessions to organised labour and the working classes in general which otherwise might have taken much longer to achieve . |
| 15 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 16 | they mentioned he had an excellent game — and from the goals showed the scot goalkeeper could have done much better on two of the italian goals … specially the first one — a flat shot from far out and at an angle too . |
| 17 | Is , is , is , yes , is there another element to this though , that what in , in your new more difficult military situation you need to mobilize the mass of support behind you , which er essentially means mobilizing the poor peasants is it possible that within the May the fourth directive , although the poor could have done much better , they need not necessarily do very much better . |
| 18 | It was doubtful if those two men could have done much worse than he was doing now ! |
| 19 | If she had discovered that Tina could have said much the same she would have been deeply upset . |
| 20 | She knows she could have gone much further but would not dream of stabbing anyone in the back to get on , even if they deserved it . |
| 21 | It could have gone much further that way , I think . |
| 22 | What just happened between us could have gone much further , but it did n't because I chose not to let it . |
| 23 | Yes , but it could have worked much , much better in a standing room only venue such as Newcastle Polytechnic or The Mayfair . |
| 24 | The 128th-ranked Wood has a more difficult task against no 67 Wiltrud Probst of Germany , but Britain 's No 2 from Sussex could have fared much worse . |
| 25 | A typical pattern is described by a former minister of transport and subsequent chairman of BR : ‘ Over and over again we could have settled much more cheaply by settling more quickly but , at each stage , we were told that we must not settle quickly because the Government really were going to fight this one to the bitter end … |
| 26 | ‘ Portia 'd have done much better with that suitor who talked about his horse all the time . |
| 27 | but if I 'd have give it , had to give them some water they 'd have done much better but I , like everybody else we kept hoping it were gon na rain , but ! |
| 28 | They 'd have to try much harder than this . |
| 29 | Over all , you 'd have fared much better than keeping your money in a bank or building society . |
| 30 | Not that they 'd 'ave got much . |