Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 31 | There is no doubt Norman 's aggressive form of golf is one of the reasons why he appeals to galleries so much , but he might have to contain himself a bit more if he hopes to win on a more regular basis in the future . |
| 32 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 33 | Once they 've served any kind of custodial sentence so much damage is done … ’ |
| 34 | ‘ Why does Canon Wheeler hate Ian so much ? ’ she asked Theodora . |
| 35 | The suggestion of hiring a car had almost come from these two ; it had been their talk of the small towns , the cedar woods , the mountains , which had fascinated Dan so much . |
| 36 | But it was not his opinions so much as their force of expression that caused his hearers to stare at him in awe on these occasions . |
| 37 | The arrangement of these dictates so much of what we see in the landscape today . |
| 38 | At others , she despised herself for being selfish , even wicked , for not being able to help people who needed her support so much . |
| 39 | She did not sleep well again that night , though with Naylor so much in her thoughts she had hardly expected to . |
| 40 | Except with the guitar so much . |
| 41 | I bled on the afterdeck so much I heard the skipper say to the mate : |
| 42 | However , it he takes as souvenir so much as a blade of grass the entrance to this charming kingdom will close forever more . |
| 43 | We liked the motor camp at Marahau so much that we stayed two nights , giving us a chance to wash and clean up after the Abel Tasman . |
| 44 | Rateable value times so much er pence per pound R V. |
| 45 | Perhaps it was because she liked Brown Owl so much that she wanted her to marry someone rather special and wonderful . |
| 46 | ‘ My dear deluded child , ’ said Gay , who had a disconcerting habit of answering , not one 's words so much as the thought which had prompted them , ‘ you do n't imagine we 're wrestling with the torments of jealousy , do you ? |
| 47 | Not the words so much as the culture which produces them . |
| 48 | On the other hand , if the horse is brought into familiar surroundings and reassured , the unfamiliar activity necessitated by a branding session involving unknown people and strange activity will not worry the horse so much . |
| 49 | I would n't say there was much between the two teams apart from the first half here this afternoon when United , I have n't seen United dominate a side so much for a very long time , and really , I mean you were here Peter , three or four nil at half time would not have been a bad reflection on United 's performance in any way at all . |
| 50 | I think the cut-out must have no plant form then , it should be earthy or an old withered tree trunk or some such — because the dancers personify Spring so much that the stage should represent the earth . |
| 51 | Another completely unknown actor , also thirty but looking much younger , named Dustin Hoffman , impressed director Mike Nichols so much in his off-Broadway plays that he was running favourite , despite his lack of experience . |
| 52 | I do n't know if it 's fear so much as a matter of getting along with objects better than people . |
| 53 | Ruth was shaking , not with fear so much as protest ; she 'd lost control of this situation . |
| 54 | Only it holds onto the hairs so much that it rips them out so that you end up with legs with no hairs on it but ah ! |
| 55 | In what follows I will not be proposing solutions so much as ways of working with these problems in relation to the study of crime and its correction . |
| 56 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 57 | I 've never felt the mystery of the future so much as here . |
| 58 | It began to prey on my mind so much that I went to the casualty department of Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 59 | Princess Anne 's daughter , Zara likes Sugar & Spice by Little Miss Perfumes so much that she bought her school friends sets for Christmas ! |
| 60 | Carl Waring enjoyed our October Mega Disk and its 100 utilities so much , he was inspired to write his own collection of utilities . |