Example sentences of "[noun prp] be a much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hungary is a much poorer country than Britain . |
| 2 | Those of the school staff who remembered Prince Charles had immediately noticed that Richard was a much more outgoing and confident boy than his brother had been . |
| 3 | ‘ In spite of your intuition , my dear Shiona , Janice is a much nicer person than you , and far more suited to be Kirsty 's mother . ’ |
| 4 | But Darwin was a much better biologist and thinker than most of those who have come after him . |
| 5 | ‘ But South Africa are a much better team than they 've been given credit for , and they are getting better with every match . |
| 6 | Jonjo O'Neil says racing on Sunday is a much better idea than racing on a Monday when most people are at work . |
| 7 | Bangkok is a much cheaper place to live , eat , shop , in fact do almost anything ! |
| 8 | Once Edna had left school , she more or less became a fixture in the household and there was no doubt that Celia was a much happier and more tractable baby under her young but competent handling . |
| 9 | Ray Buckton was a much more extrovert character . |
| 10 | Cuvier 's counterpart in Britain was a much more prosaic son of the Industrial Revolution — William Smith — whose conclusions were basically very similar but who was far too much a practical man to want to theorise about it . |
| 11 | In 1891 Portadown was a much more leisurely place than the town of 1991 . |
| 12 | Emile Littler was a much younger producer of rival pantomimes ; feeling more than a little disloyal , Mr Smith wrote to him in desperation suggesting that he might be interested in his dancers . |
| 13 | The Empire 's expansion in central Europe was a much more qualified blessing . |
| 14 | QEMM is a much more sophisticated memory manager than the one included in DOS |
| 15 | This is a pity as PostScript is a much needed standard in a world of millions of PCs , all with different print output ! |
| 16 | And manager Jim Smith said : ‘ Guy is a much better player than he was last year . |
| 17 | In the normal scene for this Labour , Hercules is shown kneeling on the back of the animal gripping the antlers , but the British example on a large vessel from Lincoln is a much more vigorous view of the capture with the hero springing onto its back with his club raised aloft ( fig. 14.34a ) . |
| 18 | Marjorie Yates is a much stronger figure as the alternately homey , vulnerable , and fiercely possessive Kate . |
| 19 | ‘ Bangor is a much more compact area than either Lisburn or Newtownards and the potential for library usage is therefore greater , ’ said Mrs Copeland . |
| 20 | Diccan Cave is a much tougher proposition . |
| 21 | This is unfortunate as Ac-ASA is a much more stable compound that 5-ASA and could therefore be much more easily prepared for widespread commercial use . |
| 22 | Although the top Safrane is a much more accomplished act than its predecessor , the R25 , it 's still too uneven to grab the initiative in the prestige sector . |
| 23 | But Laxton was a much more stable community than these figures might lead us to suppose . |
| 24 | But William was a much loved and much longed-for baby , and the Prince and Princess could not have been happier . |
| 25 | As you can see Debenham is a much smaller school than St Aidans . |
| 26 | Fox is a much stronger smell , more aniseed in base ( sometimes , old wet straw has a hint of ‘ foxy ’ smell about it ) . |
| 27 | Sillars Stalker was a much improved hurdler over the winter , and returned to form with a blinding effort to chase home Olympian in the Coral Handicap Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival last week . |
| 28 | King George VI was a much loved man . |
| 29 | That is because , even though Maine might have been a better guide than Morgan concerning the evolution of kinship , Morgan was a much better guide than Maine concerning the evolution of property . |