Example sentences of "[verb] much [adj] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It may be true that the story of the English people is best seen in English literature , but English literature contains much more than the story of the English people .
2 A sensible aid policy — not just for Russia and Eastern Europe , but for the third world in general — calls for careful priorities , realistic goals and , above all , an understanding that the quality of aid matters much more than the quantity .
3 Secondly the archive base became much more than the database ( or rather its constituent tables ) .
4 It is important to begin by recognizing that assessment is a process which involves much more than the collection of information and data .
5 They reached mass audiences , whom their ‘ messages ’ frequently interested much more than the news or the programmes that the advertisements indirectly helped pay for .
6 But the western railway dreams encompassed much more than the settling of immigrants or the taming of native peoples ( throughout the world railways were credited with this ‘ pacificatory ’ role ) .
7 Ramsey was unusual in that to him the priest 's ordination meant much more than the deacon 's ordination .
8 When the Queen takes her place in the Church of Christ the Cornerstone tomorrow , it will mean much more than the dedication of another place of worship .
9 Italy 's involvement in the Spanish Civil War , in emulation of Germany , had cost much more than the government had intended , and by 1939 Mussolini must have known that the Army and Air Force were not anything like as strong as he had imagined they were , even if he did not know the extent of their weakness .
10 We asked environment groups from all twelve EC member states at the annual meeting of the European Environmental Bureau held in Brussels , to remind EC governments that ‘ subsidiarity ’ means much more than the balance of power between them and the European Commission .
11 If trains on a branch line are cut then the railways may lose much more than the income from fares on the branch .
12 In developed countries , the birth rate fluctuates much more than the death rate ( due to social and economic changes ) and is the major cause of difficulty in population projection .
13 In such circumstances education becomes much more than the dead-end routine it so often seems in the industrialized world .
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