Example sentences of "much [subord] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 But I 'm not paying that much if they dress up as … as … . ’
2 Amongst both Labour and Conservative identifiers , it declined twice as much if they read a right-wing paper .
3 This might not matter too much if they have read all the competition copy first , but it is a point to watch .
4 This may not matter too much if they have professional advisers on whom they could rely .
5 It occurred to Hobbes that since knowledge , whether systematically developed or not , begins with sense-perception , we should not pride ourselves on knowing much if we do not understand what sense-perception actually is .
6 You wo n't mind too much if I finish my coffee , though ? ’ he said with heavy irony .
7 Anyway , I doubt very much if I want to stay in all blasted week anyway !
8 But it 's not too much if you lose your legs , your arms , your touch .
9 You stop the discovery of new medicines and treatments for heart disease , for cancer , for things like multiple sclerosis and Parkinson 's Diseases — the diseases for which we do n't yet have treatments — that you slow down progress too much if you get too many restrictions .
10 It does n't actually matter that much if you leave out Sno Snow White .
11 Right , well we have two hundred and sixty five pounds and sixty eight pence in the bank at the moment , erm which actually is n't very much if you think that we 've got to go right through to July to our next fund raising event , so , I was wondering that , if anyone has n't paid their subscriptions for last year or if anyone owes for Christmas cards , I think there 's one or two
12 Erm I ca n't really do very much until I 've got
13 ‘ You do n't realise you use your feet so much until you hurt one of them , or a knee , ’ affirms Doohan .
14 It is mentally and physically tiring — you do n't realise how much until you stop playing . ’
15 , but erm , and I notice that quite often the shelves would be half empty , came here , I would stop on the way back from the school the bank and the butcher 's and the paper shop over the road I could come in quarter to nine and I 'm , you know , I , I was done and I said to my Arnold they 're not going to sell much unless they put some money into filling the shelves surely Spa will back them , and he said I keep on telling them that I keep on saying to them if you do n't put the goods there on display people are going to go over the road to Lipton 's and and
16 It is it is in a way is n't it well very much so not just in a way it 's very much because we have what 's that saying we say a picture is paints a thousand words yeah ?
17 But it wo n't be that much because I 've been out of things for the last year and before that I had shut my eyes anyway .
18 and you know it sort , it surprises you so much because I 've said we 'll go on this moving stair thing er what they call it ?
19 Not so much because I do n't understand the subject ( that is no real obstacle to a lecturer ) , but more because of the time we are likely to consume , even if we keep a respectable distance from quantum mechanics and concentrate solely on phenomenological theories .
20 But I do n't see him that much because he go and play sports on the
21 ‘ She 's missed our two-year-old so much since we 've been out here .
22 You know the sort of thing I mean : ‘ For as much as ye do it unto one of these my children — ’
23 Now that capital and entrepreneurship are free to cross borders , the old trade measures may conceal as much as they reveal .
24 As discussed in Chapter I government statistics obscure almost as much as they reveal the extent of poverty among women .
25 While the global system is most commonly classified in terms of First , Second and Third Worlds , and these are very convenient and for many purposes useful labels , it is certain that they conceal as much as they reveal .
26 However , these scores hide as much as they reveal .
27 It is certainly possible that the distinctions between different types of variable drawn by Dressler and Wodak and by Kerswill will turn out to be methodologically important in as much as they yield new insights into the principles underlying patterns of variation and processes of change .
28 Members would like the people they represent to be able to watch as much as they wish of their MPs at work , and whenever they wish , without being dependent on the editorial and journalistic selections of the broadcasters .
29 They would return local government finance to the bad old days of domestic rates , with unrestrained power for local councils to charge householders as much as they like .
30 As long as they 're in Pesth for the start of the journey south , they can do very much as they like , although none of them will be welcome at court . ’
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