Example sentences of "[vb past] much [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They also made much greater use of other health care professionals , such as nurse practitioners ( Drummond & Maynard , 1988 ) .
2 He has resisted attempts to remove him from the Maine Road board in the past , but it has become clear that Lee 's intervention provided much greater pressure on him to step aside .
3 The value of the USRC was thus of an indirect kind ; by involving more than seventy MPs and peers in social research the Unionist belief that the party was a party of reform was re-established ; it began the trend towards research for political action that was to accelerate after the war ; and it affected much later policy by influencing those who were to make it .
4 In such enumerations , CD68 negative eosinophils as well as CD68 positive macrophages could generally be distinguished from neutrophils ( which showed much brighter staining for L1 than the macrophages ) .
5 The leading radical journals were closed and Tolstoy instituted much closer supervision of university curricula and student activities .
6 Perhaps the main difference between Castells 's approach and that of Marx and Engels ( and a difference we can use in our new formulation ) is that Castells placed much greater emphasis on the fact that state intervention to provide collective resources did not only operate in the interests of the capital .
7 This meant much greater freedom in the siting of industry ; small workshops could now equip themselves with power tools .
8 Addington 's form of income tax introduced the novel principle of deduction at source , which enabled much better anticipation of outcome than had Pitt 's own assessments .
9 Averaged out , the trainers clearly gave much greater weight in selecting future teachers to oral proficiency and experience of the country whose language would be taught , and much less to written proficiency , knowledge of literature or linguistics , the referee 's report , or experience with children ’ ( Gold , 1985 : 11 )
10 It also — and perhaps more importantly — gave much tighter control over workers , enabling the factory owner to offer an all-or-nothing contract to the mill-workers , such that they would be required to work the then standard fourteen-hour day , six-day week — a far more intensive work-rate than that chosen by the putting-out workers who could exercise their own preference in the trade-off between work and leisure .
11 For example , Williams ( 198 ) pointed out that coronary artery bypass grafting for severe angina with left main disease gave much better value for money ( £ 1040 per Quality-Adjusted Life-Year ( QALY ) gained in 1983–84 prices ) than CABG for mild angina with two vessel disease ( £12,600 per QALY gained ) .
12 The Barnsley keeper , Paul Whitehead had much better luck at his end .
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