Example sentences of "[adj] more than [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | The change to a community-based service … involves much more than a change to the pattern of service provision . |
2 | Crime is much more than a statistic to Rosemary Hunt . |
3 | ‘ It is declared that a good wife is a crown to her husband , but Mrs. Crawley had been much more than a crown to him … she had been crown , throne and sceptre all in one ’ . |
4 | IN SPITE of their success with chilled lamb in some Scottish stores last year , New Zealand suppliers seem to have accepted this is little more than a coals to Newcastle exercise . |
5 | It provides little more than a footnote to the account of the journey home . |
6 | So sex education becomes crucially important , but while the 1986 Education Act and Section 28 remain in place , sex education in Britain will consist of little more than a hymn to family life , largely devoid of any education about sex . |
7 | On that Friday morning three weeks ago , I was little more than an irritant to dozens of drivers caught in a traffic jam as police cars and ambulances blocked their way to work or school . |
8 | A great deal of it amounted to little more than an adjunct to farming , typically by smallholders plying a trade on the side . |
9 | Mills and Boon , however , rigorously deny any charge of producing ‘ formula fiction ’ ; their instructions to potential authors , as they insist , and as some critics have noted with surprise , add up to little more than an encouragement to ‘ freshness and originality of approach ’ . |