Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [adv] much " in BNC.

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1 We 'd always get so much and we used it in rotation .
2 Personally , I have to say I slightly prefer International , but Pro is still a definite buy at this price — you 'd probably pay as much for one strawberry at Wimbledon !
3 A formal tank would perhaps owe as much to landscape gardening as to an idealised stream bed .
4 If this factor did not influence people , then the average repayment period chosen by people once they had been shown both APR and total cost as well as instalment amount would not vary very much between the different sets of respondents ( that is , those shown just the instalment amounts first , those shown APR too , and those shown total credit cost too ) .
5 This would not matter so much if Pound had not been a great technical innovator in verse writing .
6 It would not matter so much if a Turkish president were just a figurehead .
7 If people had to put their hands in their own pockets and had to pay for it they would not drink so much . ’
8 Tribunal chairman Mr Brown said : ‘ The cause of the trouble is free alcohol if people had to pay for it they would not drink so much . ’
9 If the hon. Gentleman sincerely believed that , he would not show so much artificial outrage .
10 In Ernest and Elizabeth 's awful old kitchen , which had last had a re-fit in 1926 and in which Cecilia herself would not have so much as peeled a potato , though nothing would have made her say so , Tina was baking a birthday cake for Bienvida .
11 I tried to get most of my work done today so that I would not have so much to do on the weekend .
12 I can feel that there are forces in here that could very easily be woken and , if they are woken , they would come crawling and slithering out from their lair and we would not have very much chance against them …
13 Mr Bull , 75 , said he would not have too much difficulty in finding the extra £15 a year to pay for the new road tax fees and would economise on petrol .
14 And you yourself made it clear to me that you would not stomach so much as one more day , if we could but be induced to open a way of escape for you .
15 She just hoped that the lady would not charge too much for taking the child off her hands .
16 His kindness must have gone to her head , but she would not read too much into it .
17 The workshop would not cause that much disruption .
18 ‘ Had he as many kind and good relations as I have , ’ Hooker wrote , ‘ who would be grieved and pained to hear me say what I think , and had he children who would be placed in predicaments most detrimental to children 's minds … he would not wonder so much . ’
19 ‘ Rain is forecast and it would not take too much more to have the meeting cancelled , ’ said Plumpton clerk of the course Cliff Griggs yesterday , while overnight rain would also put Sedgefield in jeopardy .
20 The emerging calculations implied that muon catalysed fusion would not release as much energy as was needed to create the muons ; even if the muon were as stable as Alvarez 's ‘ ten or twenty minutes ’ the sticking makes the useful production of energy out of reach .
21 ‘ This is July still , though you would not judge as much .
22 You get more lonely , which does n't help in here , and I mean say , I mean the view is n't very n this view is very drab , and if you 'd got something to look at it would n't would n't matter so much , but erm
23 One might think that this unpredictability would n't matter too much if it occurred only at the big bang ; after all , that was ten or twenty billion years ago .
24 Or if we all disagreed , but we treated it all , to use Russell 's favourite example , like disagreements about the taste of oysters , it would n't matter very much either .
25 I would n't pay too much heed myself , though . ’
26 You 'd think the Roadrunners friends would n't smoke as much as they did .
27 I often think that if we dressed in old Barbours and flat caps we would n't create so much antipathy .
28 I 'm determined that it 's not going to happen to me , but if people were to stop buying my work I would continue painting , so it would n't make that much difference .
29 I 'm determined that it 's not going to happen to me , but if people were to stop buying my work I would continue painting , so it would n't make that much difference .
30 You know that , doing that , fabricating , and things like that , you know like actual welding and that type of Er , we would n't make as much money out of that as you probably would
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