Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] much for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 2 | I would n't say there was much between the two teams apart from the first half here this afternoon when United , I have n't seen United dominate a side so much for a very long time , and really , I mean you were here Peter , three or four nil at half time would not have been a bad reflection on United 's performance in any way at all . |
| 3 | I did want to lose weight so much for it , but have had very little success so will have to get used to the idea of being the back-end-of-a-bus in comparison to Heather . |
| 4 | Dearest Ma Thanks so much for the parcel . |
| 5 | Thanks so much for sending on the extra questionnaire ; it was such a conscientiously answered one , too . |
| 6 | Thanks so much for the supper . ’ |
| 7 | With an average age of 60 , customers choose his trips as much for the company of like-minded people as for the presence of an expert lecturer . |
| 8 | Johnny hated Bella too much for there not to have been passion . |
| 9 | We take chain mail very much for granted , seeing it depicted in paintings of the time , or in recent cinematic extravaganzas . |
| 10 | Opinion takes a world of countries so much for granted , it is mildly shocking to discover how recent the concept is . |
| 11 | All the convulsions and brutal gashings of the rural landscape by the railway engineers have long been smoothed over and forgotten ; and we take the railway earthworks and monuments as much for granted as we do the hedges and fields of the enclosure commissioners or the churches of our medieval forefathers . |
| 12 | In fact , we probably take the whole system of communication by telephone very much for granted . |
| 13 | They can then be spared the basic unreality of young people triumphing in circumstances too much for their capacities as well as the inevitable thinness of emotional experience which is bound to restrict the scope of an author wanting to draw characters in the round rather than stereotypes . |
| 14 | One problem with this cosy consensus , and its greatest irony , is that as a nation we take our pubs too much for granted . |
| 15 | Apart from making it easier for customers to shop at their stores , retailers started their own store card or charge card schemes as a way of adding to their ancillary profits — and reducing outgoings by not having to pay the banks so much for their credit card schemes . |
| 16 | ‘ Meal-time is all that many patients have to look forward to — it is the highlight of the day , and good food contributes greatly to both their well-being and recovery as much for psychological as nutritional reasons , ’ says Roden . |
| 17 | Would that explain why he asked me so few questions , took my unlikely presence and knowledge so much for granted ? |
| 18 | She was a young and sensitive girl growing up , and she found things too much for her . ’ |
| 19 | Too strong-willed and forceful to remain easily in any slot into which a male-oriented Moslem society might force her , regarding marriage , certainly to a Moslem , as the ultimate form of prison , conducting life as a ceaseless battle for Home Rule and Independence , she sometimes found things too much for her and plunged into pits of despair , from which she would spring out again almost immediately with a soar and a vehemence which left Owen dazzled . |
| 20 | Addressing the husband , I said , ‘ Thank your wife very much for the bottle of wine . |
| 21 | You can pay three times as much for this useful tool pouch ! |
| 22 | The Test and County Cricket Board acted only hours after fining Allan Lamb five times as much for exposing Pakistan as ball-gouging cheats . |
| 23 | That 's why they pay six times as much for it . |
| 24 | British companies take out 50 to 70 percent of profits in dividends , twice as much as Japan and nearly three times as much for Germany . |
| 25 | Brooke 's Cabinet colleague R. A. Butler , on the other hand , took a rather more robust view — confiding to the BBC 's Director General , Sir Hugh Greene , that he had not enjoyed anything on television so much for years . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm refusing your generous offer as much for your sake as my own . |
| 27 | ‘ Was our sadness too much for you to bear ? ’ asked an Iranian woman . |
| 28 | Have n't got your wife with you this morning too much for her . |
| 29 | Despite these technical limitations , physiological psychologists take the lesion method very much for granted . |
| 30 | I did not think £9 too much for a fine steak , or £150 too much for the sort of weekend that would cost £200 in Edinburgh or London . |