Example sentences of "[adv] much [adj] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To enter this competition — just study the three simple questions below and then call our 24 hour hotline — it will cost you not much more than the cost of a first class stamp .
2 He had come to doubt the value of all new beginnings and to put his trust in not much more than the art of hanging together .
3 That is not much less than the county 's entire annual tax revenues before the landfill opened .
4 RUGBY is about much more than the game on the pitch .
5 The horseman was very particular about his harness and was as much concerned as the farmer to keep it in good order , making frequent visits to the saddler or harness-maker who had his shop in most of the larger villages .
6 And if they were hard done by , how much more so the rest of us .
7 Before you are carried away by the possibilities of information manipulation for its own sake it is worth taking a step back and examining how much more than the pen , paper and adding machine you really need .
8 4 If a lobster weighs 3¾kg and a crab weighs 1⅕kg , how much more than the crab does the lobster weigh ?
9 Today , helped along by Fitch Benoy 's latest radical interventions , the accretion is happily much more than the sum of its parts .
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