Example sentences of "[verb] much [det] than the [noun] " 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 | Men and women work all day and at the end of the week those in waged work get a wage packet which does n't buy much more than the necessities of life . |
| 4 | Secondly the archive base became much more than the database ( or rather its constituent tables ) . |
| 5 | It is important to begin by recognizing that assessment is a process which involves much more than the collection of information and data . |
| 6 | The costs involved in astronomy satellites cover much more than the detectors or telescopes and even the cheapest astronomical satellite now costs around £60 million . |
| 7 | Jason Burke discovered much more than the clichés of Paris , and decided that a short visit need not be too expensive . |
| 8 | They reached mass audiences , whom their ‘ messages ’ frequently interested much more than the news or the programmes that the advertisements indirectly helped pay for . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Ramsey was unusual in that to him the priest 's ordination meant much more than the deacon 's ordination . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If trains on a branch line are cut then the railways may lose much more than the income from fares on the branch . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In such circumstances education becomes much more than the dead-end routine it so often seems in the industrialized world . |