Example sentences of "and [adv] much [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost of transit necessarily restricts the development of these quarries , and the introduction of Railway communication would afford such facilities for despatch , and so much reduce the cost of delivery , that a large increase in the out-put [ sic ] of this mineral ( for which there is a constant demand ) would undoubtedly follow . |
| 2 | Kilvert was very conscientious ( and apparently much loved ) in his discharge of his pastoral duties , and this gave him an acquaintance with an unusually broad spectrum of village society , which adds greatly to the interest of the diary . |
| 3 | He says , ‘ My mind was much to the place as soon as it was described to me , because it was a full congregation … an ignorant , rude and revelling people for the greater part , who had need of preaching , and yet had among them a small company of converts , who were humble , godly and of good conversations , and not much hated by the rest , and therefore fitter to assist their teacher ; but above all , because they hardly ever had any lively , serious preaching among them . |
| 4 | His first book , the collection of stories entitled Goodbye , Columbus , fixed him in the popular mind , from 1959 , as an ‘ enemy of the Jews ’ — a condition aggravated by the onanistic bravura and scandalous mad success of the grotesquely imaginative Portnoy 's Complaint ( 1969 ) , and not much improved in recent years by The Counterlife ( 1987 ) , in which various escapes from Jewish America , including an escape to Israel , are projected , and in which Zuckerman and his dentist brother Henry are both imagined to have ailing hearts and to undertake gruesome surgery in order to restore the sexual potency suspended by their medication . |
| 5 | And he had pigs ' eyes , was all that she could think as he said , ‘ Let me call you back , ’ into the phone and then cradled it before standing and , still holding her arm and not much caring about how it would hurt , moving to close the office door . |
| 6 | But he was in his thirties , and already much set in his ways , and perhaps reluctant to make too many changes too quickly . |
| 7 | Which was a bad move as I hate jazz bores and usually much prefer the company of bored typists from Willesden . |
| 8 | This would seem true of Richard Widmark who gave no trouble to McLaglen but , according to Pilar Wayne ( 'the Duke's ' third and last wife ) proved difficult during the making of Wayne 's beloved ( and still much underrated ) The Alamo in 1960 . |
| 9 | And in all this , Joseph had learnt that Bligh 's proven and later much copied method of keeping off sickness , especially the scurvy , was to force fruit on his crew : fruit and exercise , for which purpose he carried a fiddler to make them dance every day . |
| 10 | Preferably by retaining the two-thirds majority , but at least ensuring as my Noble Friend Lord has suggested , a clear majority and I myself will go on reiterating the principle , enunciated by Professor in the er and also much commended by some elements in the Conservative Party and he said you can not have real effective democracy without real effective local self government , and he said that in the light of his experiences in pre-war Germany . |
| 11 | The old , and now much condemned , low-carbohydrate method of dieting had much to answer for in making social eaters fat . |
| 12 | Very local and now much decreased in marshes in the extreme E of the region . |
| 13 | And how much have Hunslet RLFC , or the council spent on the ground ? |
| 14 | This highlights the predicament of chimpanzees , the ape closest to homo sapiens and consequently much sought after by researchers . |
| 15 | In September " Mr. John Wodrow , Minister of the Parish of Kildalton having Represented That the Church of Lagavullin was stripped of many slates , and otherwise much hurt by the Storm , and that it is absolutely necessary That the same be immediately Repaired , otherwise that the Church will become ruinous … " £7:4:0 was granted . |
| 16 | Further to our conversation the other evening at ESBW , I enclose details about membership of BAIE COMMUNICATORS IN BUSINESS , and very much hope you may consider joining . |
| 17 | Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms . |
| 18 | ‘ To ram it home to you in no uncertain terms that I was sexually active , and very much considered desirable by other women . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We were approached by Dillons and very much welcomed the move , ’ says Ms Mackle . |
| 20 | I was concerned about that and very much welcomed the change that was made . |
| 21 | So ‘ Rasta ’ , ‘ Rusty ’ and ‘ Camley ’ featured in the first Roman Candle Their adventures were related in the first person , so giving a ‘ hume ’ character to the otherwise mute and very much stuffed fluffy playthings . |
| 22 | The re-union was held in the Staff Restaurant at 67 Lombard Street and very much enjoyed by everyone . |
| 23 | Rather , if found at all , such work is likely to be roughly handled and very much read . |
| 24 | ‘ I together with countless others had the pleasure of ‘ attending ’ your Mass on the feast of Christ the King , televised and very much appreciated ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ And too much heard , ’ Mrs Venables agreed . |