Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later on in the article he repeats this ; ie. ‘ not only does the tenon need to be pretty much where it needs to be relative to the thickness of the wood . ’ |
| 2 | If you 've got the ears to know what sounds good you 're going to be pretty much alright . ’ |
| 3 | What Im saying is with the midfield and full backs we have there s no need to be under much pressure . |
| 4 | With the increasing impact of information technology the problem today is sometimes that there seems to be too much information rather than too little . |
| 5 | In so far as management budgeting was seen to be a failure , it was because it was perceived to be too much of a finance-led exercise which did not adequately tackle the organisational and behavioural issues . |
| 6 | ‘ Handling all the sheep is certainly going to be too much for you on your own , ’ answered Elizabeth . |
| 7 | So do cases where the trauma may be considered to be too much for the children . |
| 8 | He was proved to be too much of a Zealot . |
| 9 | But if he had nothing to do with the kidnapping of that girl it seemed to be too much of a coincidence that he should have appeared just then . |
| 10 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 11 | It is just that gentlemen are Well , it does not do , you see , to be too much apart . |
| 12 | I live here , with the child because Well , it is not suitable for a child , is it , to be too much in a workroom among so many foolish women ? |
| 13 | I do hope it is n't going to be too much of a disappointment for you . ’ |
| 14 | Rule-based parsers tend to work on a sentential basis which appears to be too much delay for users . |
| 15 | ‘ I just could tell it was all getting to be too much for Mrs Foster , and I 've made some suggestions . |
| 16 | No cos it , it was straightforward I think and does n't look to be too much wasted , you , you know they leave all that so I 'll just it a quick , a quick , really a very quick hoover but I ca n't get to the bit where the waste carpet is but er yes it looks nice I think . |
| 17 | Many reckon the enormous cost , estimated to be as much as £10 billion , is too great for most of the players in the current economic climate . |
| 18 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 19 | Moreover , at least since the nineteenth century there has been a spillover into the State schools of the ethos of the independent boarding schools , the purpose of which was understood to be as much moral as academic , with character-training high on the agenda . |
| 20 | And yet the process for fixing expenditure allocations seems to be as much of a shambles as ever it was when you and Mr Heath were so concerned about it in the late 1960s . |
| 21 | Log paper comes in several numbers of cycles ; the specimen in figure 11.6 contains three cycles , allowing the highest number to be as much as 10 3 or 1000 times as high as the smallest ; four cycle paper would allow it to be as much as 10 4 or 10,000 times as high . |
| 22 | Log paper comes in several numbers of cycles ; the specimen in figure 11.6 contains three cycles , allowing the highest number to be as much as 10 3 or 1000 times as high as the smallest ; four cycle paper would allow it to be as much as 10 4 or 10,000 times as high . |
| 23 | The price of a full season ticket was going to be as much as a term 's school fees , and when I saw my father 's horrified face , I said , ‘ I can cycle . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Tom 's not going to be as much help as I 'd hoped , either . |
| 25 | Because expensive capital equipment and the attainment of a rapid through-put of production were central to this development , ‘ the craft skill and judgement of the workers had to be as much as possible superseded , as did the control of workers over the pace of work ’ ( Lazonick , 1983 , p. 112 ) . |
| 26 | It may well be that she considers China to be as much of a long-term complication for the West as for herself : too capricious to make a dependable ally for NATO , too ambitious to fit into America 's design for the Pacific , too shrewd to challenge vital Soviet interests . |
| 27 | The greatest cause of redundant data however is the inclusion of the company logo ; this has been known to be as much as an order of magnitude greater than the average model . |
| 28 | I wanted you to be as much in love with me as I was with you . ’ |
| 29 | So they 'd want to be as much away from the air conditioning as possible , would n't they ? ’ |
| 30 | The normal absorptive capacity of the colon , estimated to be as much as six litres per day , should be able to compensate for significant fluid losses from the small intestine in secretory diarrhoea . |