Example sentences of "[prep] a much [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early stages of the disease sufferer from alcoholism may be still waiting for the " real " party to start when everyone else is already intoxicated after a much smaller intake . |
| 2 | Five of the men arrested in the Rathcoole district were released within twenty-one days and two more after a much longer period , but without ‘ allegations ’ having been made to justify their detention . |
| 3 | In addition , by drawing more firmly the line between respectable and disreputable behaviour , social-purity legislation certainly encouraged the emergence of a much clearer subculture of prostitution , and a similar development can be observed with regard to male homosexuality . |
| 4 | He is of a much better class than myself . |
| 5 | While such a situation may acceptable from a direct loss point of view , it can hardly be described as an effective solution to a problem which could and should be capable of a much better solution . |
| 6 | Erm but this line involving , , er was actually er part of a much bigger scheme that was put forward about eighteen forty , and really involved er a line from near Cross to , on to , on to , and then up to and connecting . |
| 7 | but they 're part of a much bigger organization who |
| 8 | She argues that two local bypasses proposed for north Oxford are really part of a much bigger project . |
| 9 | The politics of taxation was , and remains , only a small part of a much bigger picture . |
| 10 | Billy Dann 's office was long and narrow , almost as narrow as the desk placed across it just in front of the window , but very high because it had been partitioned out of a much bigger room . |
| 11 | Such developments , to which can be added improvements in the quality of steel used in the making of armour ; the ability , as a consequence , to abandon the use of the shield , thereby freeing the left arm ; and the development of special rests which permitted the use of a much heavier lance , meant that the cavalryman , far from being an outmoded liability on the field , remained an indispensable element of the army , one whose value was , as we have seen , enhanced by training and by association with men using other weapons . |
| 12 | Of course you will not know whether you were right until you get there — but it certainly helps If you can learn to see this lifetime as a small part of a much greater voyage . |
| 13 | On the whole they feel such predictions are not justified and , indeed , the evidence is of a much greater degree of fitness and independence than is generally acknowledged . |
| 14 | Extrapolation based upon a mathematical formula has the appearance of a much greater degree of precision and has been used by a number of workers in Britain , e.g.Jones ( 1924 ) and Brown ( 1952 ) . |
| 15 | But in a sense the cataclysm of the French Revolution was only the outward political symbol of a much greater cataclysm : the rise of the new system of economics that Thomas Carlyle called ‘ industrialism ’ . |
| 16 | Although Newby and his colleagues have demonstrated the dogged hold of traditional rural society on the levers of power , the changes foreseen by Pahl and Thorns , and documented by Ambrose , Connell , Radford and Pacione , may be only the foretaste of a much greater change in rural society , if the development of rural communities in California is a guide to the future as it has been so often in the past . |
| 17 | It should be noted , moreover , that the ability of the present Call-slip analysis exercise to determine the date of publication of a much greater proportion of items issued ( 97% as opposed to 65% on each of the two earlier occasions ) means that its results are much more accurate , and that the higher incidence of pre-1900 publications recorded by the earlier surveys probably can , therefore , be attributed , in large measure , not to any radically different pattern of reading at these times , but to the fact that the numerous undated call-slips occurring then almost certainly contained a high proportion which related to more modern publications . |
| 18 | Nisbet sounded his bugle as he approached and , as the wily ex-soldier intended , gave the impression of a much greater number of reinforcements arriving . |
| 19 | Or perhaps it is that if we try to take on the identity and authority of the Weaving Mother the consequences will be severe ; our own personal weavings are only part of a much greater pattern , which we can not control or take credit for . |
| 20 | Some years ago in Britain ( 1960-75 ) there was a period of a much higher level of obesity in babies when the general view was that ‘ you can not overfeed a baby ’ . |
| 21 | The quality of information is of a much higher standard than ever before . |
| 22 | ‘ The sort of judgmental work that the study suggests the external assessor will do will be of a much higher standard requiring people at no less than partner or senior manager level . |
| 23 | The geological map can also , at one level , be regarded as a medium for communicating only factual data ( it answers the closed question ‘ What is the nature of the rocks in a particular area ? ’ ) , but the intellectual processes under-pinning the presentation of geological information in this form are of a much higher order . |
| 24 | Foreign Minister Casimir Bizimungu , denying reports of a much higher death toll , admitted that 300-500 rebels " wearing civilian clothes " had been killed in Army operations early in the second week of October . |
| 25 | While some of the ‘ ordinary members ’ may accurately be depicted as ignorant and unintelligent , ‘ council leaders are more usually of a much higher calibre ’ . |
| 26 | This is because the anthropology which they used and reinterpreted was part of a much wider work which went beyond and across any disciplinary boundaries . |
| 27 | The use of aisles permitted the erection of a much wider building than would otherwise have been possible . |
| 28 | Apart from the specific history of the status of women that Engels was proposing , he was again stressing that the status of women is not an independent fact , perhaps explained by transcendental ideas concerning the nature of men and women , but rather that men 's and women 's ideas about women were all aspects of a much wider system which included the whole political economy and its internal logic . |
| 29 | The social panic surrounding the emergence of the Teddy Boys formed part of a much wider structure of feeling in 1950s Britain that the social changes wrought on the postwar world were destroying the old ‘ British way of life ’ and the former civility of the British people , and the Teds were understood to be symptomatic of these social alterations . |
| 30 | The reorganization of local government described in Chapter 4 confirmed that local government was indeed part of a much wider state system , and the 1973 oil crisis followed by the onset of economic depression deepened the pressures on that system . |