Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [det] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Highlander is much more than a place or an institution . |
| 2 | Crime is much more than a statistic to Rosemary Hunt . |
| 3 | Meeting special educational needs in ordinary schools is much more than a process of opening school doors to admit children previously placed in special schools . |
| 4 | The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 ! |
| 5 | Making fools of the fools who make fools of the police is a funny business , but Murder By Misadventure is much more than a hackneyed trawl through the dogma of yesterday 's psycho-dramas . |
| 6 | This work with great and powerful climaxes in first and last movements ; with a scherzo as light as thistledown , a truly poetic slow movement and tremendous pageantry in the finale is much more than a series of vignettes of a great city . |
| 7 | The restoration of contemporary art is little more than a childish effort to arrest artistic expression at its moment of birth a mistaken longing for eternal youth . |
| 8 | For more manipulative members of the older generation , a will is much more than a simple legal document — it is a voice from beyond the grave , rewarding good children with the best spoons , and cutting the naughty ones off with a shilling |
| 9 | However , at low water , the river is little more than a trickle . |
| 10 | His proposed implementation of VAT on the published word is much more than a tax on learning . |
| 11 | Because the small Brigadier they call The Ciskei Kid is little more than a puppet on a string . |
| 12 | As Rene Padilla cautions , ‘ To speak of the Kingdom of God is to speak of the purpose of God , of which the empirical church is little more than a pale reflection ’ ( Padilla 1975:43 ) . |
| 13 | But the Church is much more than a place of worship . |
| 14 | It must be said , however , that despite the beautiful detail of Piaget 's behavioural descriptions , his picture of the mental reorganizations underlying behavioural change was painted with a very broad brush ( by present-day standards ) ; and indeed the assimilation-accommodation model is little more than a description of what has to be explained , awaiting , what we now call , a ‘ computational model ’ . |
| 15 | Fumaroli 's book is much more than a polemic against the artistic policies of one government . |
| 16 | In some cases a bit image is little more than a memory dump of video ram . |
| 17 | Though David Newnham , in the Guardian ( 24 July 1990 ) , calls the film " post- modernism : the movie " , Scott 's version is little more than a violent adventure story . |
| 18 | A dojo is much more than a place where a karateka ( one who practises karate ) trains . |
| 19 | Our system is much more than a word processor . |
| 20 | As Hadrian 's villa is much more than a villa , so Diocletian 's palace is more like a town and is also designed as a fortress . |
| 21 | Their need for food is easily met and the food we grow for ourselves on agricultural land is little more than a readily-available bonus . |
| 22 | However , the versatile EQ and the additional power of the bass boost make it easy to fill out the sound , and a smooth , mellow tone is little more than a brief twiddle away . |
| 23 | At this point , the channel is little more than a quarter of a mile wide and on the far bank a road continues the journey to Broadford . |
| 24 | The Harpies ' cave is little more than a smelly hollow in the side of the hill , and contains nothing of interest , save for old bones from the Harpies ' victims . |
| 25 | Secondly , Foucault argues that the panopticon is much more than a building . |
| 26 | Schmeichel is much more than a shot-stopper . |
| 27 | Even the much-lauded Ibanez RG series is little more than a go-faster Strat in the final analysis . |