Example sentences of "[verb] much more than [art] [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 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 Secondly the archive base became much more than the database ( or rather its constituent tables ) .
5 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 .
6 The change to a community-based service … involves much more than a change to the pattern of service provision .
7 It is important to begin by recognizing that assessment is a process which involves much more than the collection of information and data .
8 It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier !
9 The Morgan test would not appear to require much more than a knowledge of the basic facts of life .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 They reached mass audiences , whom their ‘ messages ’ frequently interested much more than the news or the programmes that the advertisements indirectly helped pay for .
14 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 ) .
15 Ramsey was unusual in that to him the priest 's ordination meant much more than the deacon 's ordination .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 To begin with they travel only at night and often they may not go much more than a mile .
19 He could n't afford much more than a set of plastic rings let alone five gold ones .
20 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 .
21 ‘ Broad-band cable means much more than an increase in the number of TV channels , ’ he said .
22 If trains on a branch line are cut then the railways may lose much more than the income from fares on the branch .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 In such circumstances education becomes much more than the dead-end routine it so often seems in the industrialized world .
26 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 .
27 But even now , a woman has to achieve much more than a man in order to gain respect or " promotion " .
28 The Lyons course was scheduled to last four years , but few pupils stayed much more than a year .
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