Example sentences of "[is] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally I do nt think there s much to choose between Lukic and Beeney . |
| 2 | Barbara Everett 's subtle and disconcerting essay proceeds to say that ‘ Difficulties with girls is much more like The Waste Land than Kenner leaves room for guessing it is ’ , in the book by him which she is examining . |
| 3 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 4 | For these very reasons , the care of our nation 's pubs is much more than an exercise in architectural conservation . |
| 5 | There is much that each of us can do to help ourselves — by not smoking , by eating sensibly , by taking regular exercise , and by not drinking too much . |
| 6 | Although there is much good stuff here and I shall undoubtedly find it a useful reference , on putting it down my chief desire was to out and solo something barefoot ! |
| 7 | At the present time , there is much interest in the English past , evoked in exhibitions commemorating historical events , and evident in the spread of museums and the great popularity of visiting country homes . |
| 8 | Because Pound the critic seems to be always in his shirt-sleeves sparing a few distraught hours or minutes from the more serious business of writing poems or translating them , his criticism is dispersed , though there is much more of it than we are likely to remember . |
| 9 | There is much of the airy clubman , in fact , about Winterbotham . |
| 10 | THERE is much concern in the US about the addiction to ‘ crack ’ ( purified cocaine ) within inner-city communities . |
| 11 | As Mr Glancey points out , there is much modern building that we may describe as passively mediocre , ‘ half-hearted Post-Modern ’ . |
| 12 | Jens Reich , one of its founders , said yesterday : ‘ There is much anger that the reality and the portrayed image are so different … |
| 13 | There is much to talk about . |
| 14 | No one present would have disputed that but the feeling was that all we had seen was the closing of one chapter of a story in which there is much more to come . |
| 15 | Bernard Lane , one of the authors of the handbook , said : ‘ The students find that there is much more that can be done in the village than was thought . |
| 16 | There is the inevitable paperwork , but this is much less than for section police although , given the antipathy to paperwork in all police forces , it is surprising how the neighbourhood men welcome it on cold , wintry mornings . |
| 17 | There is much local opposition to this scheme and a public meeting has been held to get a campaign going . |
| 18 | Education is not the whole of life and there is much information that men must acquire and many skills they must learn which are no part of education . |
| 19 | Conversely , on the materialist model it is much more homophobia itself , as an aspect of the construction of homosexuality and independently of the question of the actual subjective repression of desire , which helps secure a coerced identity and social organization ; homophobia enforces the heterosexual norm by policing its boundaries : ‘ Homophobia is only incidentally directed against homosexuals — its more common use is against the 49% of the population which is male … |
| 20 | Mrs Thatcher still tells interviewers and staff that ‘ There is much more to do ’ . |
| 21 | It is much much harder to tame a dragon , to embrace a dragon , and to love and accept the darkness and the fear . |
| 22 | The idea behind trying to get together with Imperial was to create a world-size food company with , as it happened , tobacco money to back it up , because the cashflow from tobacco is much more than the tobacco business actually requires to sustain it . |
| 23 | The book is in great part a ‘ presentation ’ of Morgan 's ‘ Ancient Society ’ , but as Engels points out there is much in it which goes beyond Morgan , in terms both of documentation and interpretation . |
| 24 | And there is much more advice that I did not take in , except that later I remember it when a new situation arises . |
| 25 | I wonder whether the cold is much of an anaesthetic . |
| 26 | But it is much more than this . |
| 27 | This unofficial ‘ Mk II ’ V8 is much more than the flagship saloon Audi wanted from the start and a fitting testament to a decade of technological advancement . |
| 28 | Truth is , of course , the 300SL-24 is much more tourer than sports car . |
| 29 | ‘ In newspaper terms , the BBC is much more Telegraph and we are the Mirror or even the Sun ’ , remarked ITV 's head of sport recently . |
| 30 | There is much to be said for such a theory . |