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Example sentences of "[is] much [det] than the [noun] " in BNC.

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1	‘ The mission of this Government is much more than the promotion of economic progress .
2	This unofficial ‘ Mk II ’ V8 is much more than the flagship saloon Audi wanted from the start and a fitting testament to a decade of technological advancement .
3	16.2 Reading is much more than the decoding of black marks upon a page : it is a quest for meaning and one which requires the reader to be an active participant .
4	The idea behind trying to get together with Imperial was to create a world-size food company with , as it happened , tobacco money to back it up , because the cashflow from tobacco is much more than the tobacco business actually requires to sustain it .
5	Highgrove is much more than the house which the Prince Of Wales has made his country home .
6	Of course , faith is much more than the absence of doubt , but to understand doubt is to have a key to a quiet heart and a quiet mind .
7	This is much more than the duty levied on an annual rent increased by 17.5 per cent ( see Marsh [ 1991 ] 42 EG 94 ) .
8	The rent paid by the retailer is much less than the cost of overheads in an equivalent central location .
9	In most stepping motor systems the winding time constant is much less than the period of rotor oscillations about each equilibrium position .
10	For low values of current ill the pole windings the flux density in the stator/rotor iron is small and the reluctance of these parts of the flux path is much less than the reluctance of the air-gap between the stator and rotor teeth .
11	This is much less than the temperature of the microwave radiation that fills the universe ( about 2.7° ) above absolute zero ) , so such black holes would emit even less than they absorb .
12	Since the number of probes is much less than the library size , it is more efficient to order the probes first and then fit the clones to the probe order automatically .