Example sentences of "[be] much more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geoffrey Miller , an independent estate agent in Tavistock , Devon , confirms this trend : ‘ There has certainly been much more activity in the market in recent months , particularly cash buyers looking for bargains . ’ |
| 2 | It was obvious that the air raid siren had never been much more to them than a bore . |
| 3 | ‘ It was quite obvious that they had been much more to each other than just friends , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Can it really have been much more than an up-market doss-house ? |
| 5 | Tom had been much more of a snob than she was . |
| 6 | He tried hard not to wonder why the word had n't been much more than a growl . |
| 7 | It would have been much more fun , do n't you think , if they 'd dressed as housewives . |
| 8 | The far bigger prehistoric apes must have found it much harder and therefore have been much more terrestrial . |
| 9 | All in all , a pitiful collection , but he was n't so self-deceiving as to believe their relationship had been much more than a sum of those parts . |
| 10 | She chewed the pencil , swallowing splinters ; what could she tell Mrs Rundle , who was now ( if she had ever been much more than ) a stranger , living at a distance , forgetting them , putting them into her past , memories packed with other memories in her bulging handbag ? |
| 11 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 12 | Do n't forget , I have lived here three months , and although I know the family to be close-fisted there can not have been much more than that . ’ |
| 13 | The threat to coal jobs has been much more from gas than from imported coal . |
| 14 | The Belfry PGA officials say profit from the match is around £800,000 although they admit this could have been much more if they had allowed in a greater volume of spectators for this , the first ever all-ticket clash . |
| 15 | ‘ It is declared that a good wife is a crown to her husband , but Mrs. Crawley had been much more than a crown to him … she had been crown , throne and sceptre all in one ’ . |
| 16 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 17 | The dedication to their appearance of stars such as the luminous , fiftyish , Catherine Deneuve , sixtyish socialites such as Marie Helene de Rothschild or Helene de Mortemart and political wives such as Bernadette Chirac and Claude Pompidou , may be much more than simple vanity and may involve no self-admiration at all . |
| 18 | Despite the millions of words that have been written and spoken on the subject of ‘ 1992 ’ , there still appears to be much more to be said on the subject . |
| 19 | Giraffe prefer delicate , protein-rich leaves , though they can , when pushed , be much more generalist . |
| 20 | A newspaper campaign to prevent breeding by some of the substandard individuals with whom society is saddled would be much more to the point than vapid maunderings about the welfare of a child who has been endowed with an almost perfect inheritance , and is being given the best possible care ! ’ |
| 21 | There would be much more point in spending the rest of the week working in the library , planning a project of her own . |
| 22 | Judged in terms of former occupations , there seemed to be much more variety within than between classes . |
| 23 | Just think : the average age of the Iraqi soldier is 19 , the average age of the British soldiers ca n't be much more than that |
| 24 | For certain types of elective operation , there is likely to be much more scope for choice in whether or not to let contracts . |
| 25 | The structure of a cell 's genetic material may soon be appreciated to be much more fluid than previously supposed , with a grey area emerging between truly chromosomal genetic material and the mobile genes of transposons , viruses , and as yet undiscovered entities . |
| 26 | Not only have teachers had a very extensive training , they can also be much more objective in seeing the cause of any problem . |
| 27 | The next time you will be much more on your guard to avoid the same interviewing fault . |
| 28 | Once all your books and ornaments are on shelves there will be much more floor space . |
| 29 | Consideration of these facts should be enough to alert us to the possibility that the totality of our being may be much more than just the physical body , and that we may not be in any sense only machines . |
| 30 | Clem Shaw , the maker of Channel 4 's film for Cutting Edge , told the Times : ‘ We thought we 'd be looking at lots of ramblers trampling over delicate areas , but it turned out to be much more of a social perspective than an environmental one ; more of a political issue than I 'd intended . ’ |