Example sentences of "and [is] [adv] much " in BNC.

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1 Which is a long and irrelevant preamble to saying it 's an obvious priority , and more congenial , to write to you and acknowledge with warm thanks and much acclamation the copy of Litterära Strövtåg i London , which arrived yesterday and is already much browsed-through .
2 Saving , he maintained , depends mainly on the level of national income and is not much affected by changes in interest rates .
3 What cost hundreds of thousands of pounds in the nineteen-fifties , and occupied a large building , now only costs a hundred or two , and is not much larger than a typewriter .
4 This opposition has not been coherent or co-ordinated , and is still much weaker than the centripetal trends it opposes .
5 Since this is the direct ancestor of modern handwriting , and is usually much superior to it in clarity , there should be no further difficulties .
6 The beautiful lion fish belongs to this gaudy category and is therefore much easier to avoid .
7 It has no substantial legislative powers and is as much a debating chamber as anything .
8 In its composition the bakers are not sparing of fresh butter , milk and eggs ; but though it be raised it has a burned taste , and is too much like cake .
9 Her warlike appearance dates only from the next century and is very much a creation of the Restoration court , where she was developed as a symbol of the victory of the British in the Dutch Wars .
10 The bird virus studied by Hayward and his co-workers does not contain its own oncogene and is very much less efficient in causing cancer than those viruses that do .
11 Enjoy a tour of the Evening Telegraph which brings news to the county and beyond and is very much a part of the way of life in the area .
12 In his softly spoken New Zealand accent he says ‘ It 's the biggest and the most influential monastery in the area and is very much regarded as a religious and cultural centre for the local people .
13 The method is , however , very dependent upon carefully prepared specimens and is very much a laboratory tool .
14 My hon. Friend knows that the know-how fund is greatly admired by other donors and is very much appreciated in eastern Europe .
15 It is widely available and is now much simpler to fit .
16 Instead new development has gradually gravitated away from North Shields and is now much nearer to Whitley Bay [ then a separate local authority ] .
17 It is , er it being a modern book as I say , completely new , it 's , it 's , it 's part of the desk top publishing sort of revolution , so the actual data base is , is all held on computer , on a magnetic tape and is actually much bigger than this single volume book .
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