Example sentences of "[prep] be much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but you have an E you would of been much better off would n't you ? |
| 2 | Massively parallel computers have the added advantage , for all users , of being much cheaper to build and to run than vectors . |
| 3 | Indeed , it is giving the impression of being much less ambitious and much more practical than in the past . |
| 4 | She was always so in control about everything which is what gave her this air of being much older than just twenty-seven . |
| 5 | We have found that are very much more sensitive , for example in detecting instability , erm we found differences pressures of were much higher in ambulatory studies . |
| 6 | The second pitch is undoubtedly the crux , despite being much less sustained than the initial crack . |
| 7 | 1989–90 looked like being much worse , with the percentage falling to 8 per cent . |
| 8 | The people I used to hang around with were much older than me anyway , they never knew how old I was . |
| 9 | Laid for white tourists , this road hugs the flat land by the lakeside , going nowhere in particular , while the road south through the communal area which I soon turn onto is much busier , yet is untarred and in many places steep and treacherous . |
| 10 | The disadvantage is that they require a transformer to step down the voltage , which either means fairly expensive fittings ( incorporating the transformer so they can replace existing fittings ) , or expensive wiring from a central transformer to the light fittings — low voltage means high current , so the wires have to be much bigger than normal lighting wiring . |
| 11 | In years to come the percentage difference is likely to be much larger . |
| 12 | People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly . |
| 13 | Critics seem to have it the other way round , so there 's a lot of stuff talked about me using different styles , but there does n't seem to be much said about whether it works , or whether it 's done with taste , or whether the end result is worth having . |
| 14 | The shelling from the Allied guns seemed to be much more intense this evening . |
| 15 | Cell members themselves seemed to be much more impervious to the danger of possible political attacks on them than their nervous counterparts in Smolensk guberniia . |
| 16 | After 1983 , Norman Tebbit 's Act of 1982 on strikes and other industrial practices came to be much used . |
| 17 | She never managed to meet up with Vivienne and , as there did n't seem to be much happening at Dingwalls , we decided to drive down to Brighton , all of us crammed into the back of the Mini van . |
| 18 | The overall flexibility which is clear when we take the three works together seems to be much less evident when we look at The Origin by itself . |
| 19 | The notion that the media have ‘ amplified ’ football violence may have been tenable ten or twenty years ago , but the current scale of hooliganism does not appear to be much exaggerated by the media . |
| 20 | By contrast , some sections of the community ( for example , students , disc jockeys , and casino croupiers ) plan their life-styles and environment to be much later than average . |
| 21 | Ealing 's Meet Mr Lucifer ( 1953 ) defined the new medium 's effect on audiences as largely negative and , by distinguishing the communal address of cinema from television 's attention to the individual , established a line of attack that was to be much used later . |
| 22 | Most basic foods ( sugar , butter , milk , eggs ) are cheaper , in man-hours , in West Germany , while rents , public transport and entertainment tends to be much more expensive . |
| 23 | I 've just got a Lynx , and it 's going to be much harder to smuggle it around . |
| 24 | But biological weapons are unlikely to be much used on troops in combat , mainly because of the difficulties of getting the aerosols on to them without seeing them drift back on to those who released them . |
| 25 | Moreover , the arrival of COSHH laws means that this type of engineering solution to contamination problems is soon likely to be much in demand . |
| 26 | In these instances our reaction to this great loss is likely to be much stronger , although it will have the same components of grief as any other unexpected loss . |
| 27 | Those words proved to be much more that plain fighting talk . |
| 28 | Second , he continued , life was indeed bad — but it used to be much worse . |
| 29 | Even so , it is likely to be much better than that obtainable in hotels or bureau de change . |
| 30 | Short term money market rates are still more than 4½ per cent and need to be much nearer 3 per cent . |