Example sentences of "[adv] much [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dawn 's dog dying , now this Labrador who means so much to a handicapped child . |
| 2 | The Forces Programme was renamed the Light Programme in 1945 , ‘ designed to appeal not so much to a certain class of listener — but to all listeners when they are in certain moods ’ ( BBC , 1946 , p. 53 ) . |
| 3 | Betjeman captured the concern in 1938 in his poem Slough : What had appealed so much to a previous generation was no longer a cause for pride . |
| 4 | In a different mood , Edgar Allan Poe 's The Descent into the Maelstrom grips the throat by being not so much about a giant whirlpool but human fear , again breaking the editor 's rule . |
| 5 | This may have been the result of cramming so much into a restricted space , but it diminishes the significance of the book as a whole . |
| 6 | Cole ( 1978 ) , in contrast , prefers to see the emergence of permanent employment in terms not so much of a living tradition but of an institutional legacy which organizational innovators were able to draw on . |
| 7 | ( Seeing Joe Orton 's plays in New York , I could n't understand why English friends thought so much of a self-indulgent , kooky lightweight ) . |
| 8 | Unkind loyalists mocked him as ‘ not so much of a stalking horse as a stalking donkey ’ who would get only his own vote . |
| 9 | I have n't enjoyed myself so much for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | People who make such assertions do so not so much on a scientific basis , but because they have another axe to grind . |
| 11 | the roots of reductionism seem to drive not so much from a free-floating tolerance on the part of the people in general but from the convictions of the most influential elites that crime is best combated by social and institutional , rather than specifically penal means . |
| 12 | WHEN the first seven horses home finish in a heap , with less than three lengths covering them , it is fair to say that the race in question is not much of a Classic trial . |
| 13 | ‘ Not much of a good laugh in this opera , Sergeant . |
| 14 | A 16 year old who spoke at a Young Enterprise presentation admitted that he was not much of a public speaker and that he had become disaffected with school where he had ‘ failed ’ regularly . |
| 15 | In fact for only 13 per cent was it not much of a whole-school effort , suggesting that mostly it did operate in the way intended . |
| 16 | In not much of a festive mood , Princess Diana 's sons drove off yesterday to Sandringham and the first-ever Christmas without their mother , who has rejected the Queen 's invitation to join the family festivities . |
| 17 | She did n't have many friends and not much of a social life . |
| 18 | Morris had once done as much at a Labour Party conference in Blackpool . |
| 19 | ‘ All the things I told you about Petula … they applied just as much to a jealous dog as to a jealous woman . |
| 20 | Then , we ask you return to the area of your car , but do not get back in because you run the risk of being injured erm , through cars ploughing into the back of you , far more than you , as much for a personal attack . |
| 21 | You can pay twice as much for a wooden model when compared to a similar-sized aluminium one . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And Dicks is eager to prove to the Italians that he is as much of a mean machine as his new bike . |
| 24 | The Secretary of State for the Environment 's speeches today and during the Queen 's Speech were full of jokes and banter , but many of my constituents do not view the costly shambles of the poll tax as much of a laughing matter . |
| 25 | An insidious and intrusive pressure may be laid on pupils which , under the guise of a friendly and honest account of a pupil 's interests and activities , may prove just as much of a turn-off for the imaginative or deviant as the examination system itself , and may come quite soon to be regarded with cynicism by both pupils and employers alike . |
| 26 | It showed that gravitational collapse was not as much of a dead end as it had appeared to be . |
| 27 | Thus the Bishop of Durham 's theological pronouncements produce as much of a shock-horror reaction as if the Bishop 's own acknowledged precursor , Archbishop Temple , had never lived , never presided over the Anglican Church between the wars and never made essentially similar pronouncements . |
| 28 | He was just as much of a mad f—er as anyone else on the paper — he recalls sulphate-fuelled weeks spent in East Germany , for example — but he did n't take it too seriously . |
| 29 | The permission given by the 1969 Act for no-fault divorce was driven as much by a profound rethinking of the sources of morality by clerical and academic opinion as by the determined pursuit of individual self-interest on the part of either the population at large or lawyers in particular . |
| 30 | Effective study does not mean reading twice as fast ( one measure of efficiency ) or writing twice as much in a given time period ( another measure of output over input ) . |