Example sentences of "[verb] much more than [art] [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 | But this book contains much more than an exposition on the background to the Children Act and an explanation of the principles on which it is founded . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Secondly the archive base became much more than the database ( or rather its constituent tables ) . |
| 6 | The little round lawn with its grass path was so bitty that I was tempted to remove it altogether , and the two paved areas seemed too small to accommodate much more than a deckchair . |
| 7 | Sharpe knew he was seeing much more than a cavalry raid , though he was not certain whether this was the real invasion . |
| 8 | The change to a community-based service … involves much more than a change to the pattern of service provision . |
| 9 | It is important to begin by recognizing that assessment is a process which involves much more than the collection of information and data . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 12 | The Morgan test would not appear to require much more than a knowledge of the basic facts of life . |
| 13 | And someone else might catch it and get much more than a spot or two , so you see , you must be public-spirited about this . |
| 14 | Whereas the parachute keeps the cable under tension as it drops , if there is a cross wind it tends to drift much more than a rope with no chute . |
| 15 | He could n't be expected to manage much more than an hour on his feet , after which he 'd be living up to his name , although not — Diane hoped — to his reputation . |
| 16 | Jason Burke discovered much more than the clichés of Paris , and decided that a short visit need not be too expensive . |
| 17 | They reached mass audiences , whom their ‘ messages ’ frequently interested much more than the news or the programmes that the advertisements indirectly helped pay for . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Ramsey was unusual in that to him the priest 's ordination meant much more than the deacon 's ordination . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | To begin with they travel only at night and often they may not go much more than a mile . |
| 23 | He could n't afford much more than a set of plastic rings let alone five gold ones . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Broad-band cable means much more than an increase in the number of TV channels , ’ he said . |
| 26 | If trains on a branch line are cut then the railways may lose much more than the income from fares on the branch . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Of course , we are all too aware of the physiological symptoms which result from anger and which take much more than a second to show their effect and presence : the forehead bunched in a frown , the staring eyes , the constricted pupils , the clenched mouth and fists , the jaw thrust forward , the reddened neck or face and enlarged arteries due to the increase in the blood supply to the skin . |
| 29 | In such circumstances education becomes much more than the dead-end routine it so often seems in the industrialized world . |
| 30 | The war was unlikely to become much more than a dispute over frontier posts , in which success would depend to a considerable extent on winning the support of the Indians who lived in the wide area between the colonies . |