Example sentences of "[adv] much [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plant is altogether much smaller than A. calamus var. angustifolius , producing a small , compact rosette . |
| 2 | ‘ Not for the first time ’ , the article concluded , ‘ Italian communism appears economically much harder-headed than British Socialism . ’ |
| 3 | The job was n't arduous , but she knew that gradually she was taking on much more than the advertisement had suggested and she sensed that the main anxiety of their life was whether she would stay . |
| 4 | Yeah , cos I mean , the conversation you might wan na use , well may go on much longer than five sides , so you 've got |
| 5 | In Britain it flourished especially among those for whom orthodox religion had become untenable , providing a promise of immortality apparently much firmer than argument such as that of Stewart and Tait , or of the Bible . |
| 6 | Unless our own society renounced " many wrong ambitions and wrong desires " and maintained its allegiance to God , it would certainly become no better and perhaps much worse than other regimes " which are popularly execrated " . |
| 7 | Why were the schoolchildren here always so much smarter than in England ? she wondered . |
| 8 | I do n't know how the problem can be circumvented , except by being so much better than your opponent that even the most biased referee is forced to acknowledge your scores . |
| 9 | ‘ Please , sir , ’ says Management B , ‘ I have n't really raised my prices ; I have actually produced what is a new and better article , so much better than those of my competitors that , although my price is much above theirs , I have full order books and the retailers tell me they are accumulating waiting lists . ’ |
| 10 | The bonus for me was that the money was so much better than Whiteleys , Instead of getting 36 bob for Thursday evening and all day Saturday , Malcolm paid me three pounds 10 shillings — almost twice as much — for the Saturday only . |
| 11 | MV Yes , but that will still be so much better than a so-called communist or socialist society , and I do n't think people here have too many illusions about capitalism . |
| 12 | Bob Dwyer , Australia 's coach , watched his side being demolished and tried to explain why Fiji were so much better than the world champions at sevens in contrast to their 15-a-side form . |
| 13 | Coventry 's goal difference is so much better than Luton 's that the margin is more like four points . |
| 14 | Such a male has a territory so much better than that of neighbours that a ‘ polygyny threshold ’ is surpassed and he gains a second mate . |
| 15 | But , rather than spend the money and trouble on another of these exercises in exhibitionistic virtue , could we all just gather at some shrine , shout , ‘ Thank you , Arthur Miller , for being so much better than us ! ’ and go home to dinner ? |
| 16 | I would not like to think of myself as a little Boswelly person , and my mother brought me up so much better than I have turned out . |
| 17 | I 've seen the transport systems in Barcelona and Paris and they are so much better than ours it 's embarrassing . ’ |
| 18 | It was all so much better than anything she could possibly have envisaged . |
| 19 | We so enjoyed having friends to stay and got to know them so much better than in London . |
| 20 | It has all turned out so much better than I dared hope for . ’ |
| 21 | We did n't expect the country we edged last year to look so much better than our team this summer . |
| 22 | Was it so much better than anything else I 've read on Hawking because it was written with the sensitivity and understanding of someone suffering from a disability in some ways similar to his ? |
| 23 | She looked so much better than the fat , spreading South London mothers around us , that I thought we had to be middle class . |
| 24 | ‘ My music is so much better than anyone else 's . |
| 25 | Are they really so much better than I am ? |
| 26 | Her new way of doing her hair : waved and brushed back high from her forehead — so much better than last year 's fringe . |
| 27 | Er Nottingham had about three attempts to pinch , and er the last one they were told to put their own house in order , first , because conditions were so much better than in the city . |
| 28 | Why did we do so much better than the pundits and opinion polls predicted ? |
| 29 | ‘ The engine then answered so much better than anything which had been tried before that the same principle has been followed ever since . ’ |
| 30 | I mean that is so simple to do and such a , so much better than the WordPerfect setup which |