Example sentences of "be much [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 2 | He tried hard not to wonder why the word had n't been much more than a growl . |
| 3 | All in all , a pitiful collection , but he was n't so self-deceiving as to believe their relationship had been much more than a sum of those parts . |
| 4 | I never expected to be much more than a character actor . |
| 5 | Schmeichel is much more than a shot-stopper . |
| 6 | As Hadrian 's villa is much more than a villa , so Diocletian 's palace is more like a town and is also designed as a fortress . |
| 7 | Fumaroli 's book is much more than a polemic against the artistic policies of one government . |
| 8 | Crime is much more than a statistic to Rosemary Hunt . |
| 9 | Our system is much more than a word processor . |
| 10 | Secondly , Foucault argues that the panopticon is much more than a building . |
| 11 | ‘ Highlander is much more than a place or an institution . |
| 12 | A dojo is much more than a place where a karateka ( one who practises karate ) trains . |
| 13 | But the Church is much more than a place of worship . |
| 14 | Meeting special educational needs in ordinary schools is much more than a process of opening school doors to admit children previously placed in special schools . |
| 15 | Doubt now is much more than a matter of uncertainty . |
| 16 | What we have now is much more than a game : an exciting story to which we do not know the end ; and a visual image which will lead us to an exciting starting point for a drama , an image which we know has engaged the children . |
| 17 | His proposed implementation of VAT on the published word is much more than a tax on learning . |
| 18 | Maybe , he 's told , he 's much more than a celebrity . |
| 19 | The Paris museum ( colloquially known as the Jardin des Plantes ) was much more than a museum for the display of exotic specimens . |
| 20 | As the formula clearly involved some reduction in wages , this was much more than a formality . |
| 21 | In the United States and Canada the country station , with or without garden , was much more than a stopping-place for passing trains . |
| 22 | At present , therefore , it is impossible to say with any confidence whether the influence of Milan was much more than a matter of banal repetition of a few characteristic physiognomic types . |