Example sentences of "be much [det] [conj] [art] [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 | Usually damages will be much less than the price and the seller also has the inconvenience of having to find another buyer . |
5 | I never expected to be much more than a character actor . |
6 | Pricing has n't been finalised , but the firm says it should n't be much more than the cost of the Motif implementations it supplies . |
7 | It could n't be much more than an hour ? |
8 | Schmeichel is much more than a shot-stopper . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Fumaroli 's book is much more than a polemic against the artistic policies of one government . |
11 | Crime is much more than a statistic to Rosemary Hunt . |
12 | Our system is much more than a word processor . |
13 | Secondly , Foucault argues that the panopticon is much more than a building . |
14 | ‘ Highlander is much more than a place or an institution . |
15 | A dojo is much more than a place where a karateka ( one who practises karate ) trains . |
16 | But the Church is much more than a place of worship . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Doubt now is much more than a matter of uncertainty . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | His proposed implementation of VAT on the published word is much more than a tax on learning . |
21 | ‘ The mission of this Government is much more than the promotion of economic progress . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Highgrove is much more than the house which the Prince Of Wales has made his country home . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | This is much more than the duty levied on an annual rent increased by 17.5 per cent ( see Marsh [ 1991 ] 42 EG 94 ) . |
28 | Yet it is much more than an attack on the policies of a given minister . |
29 | For these very reasons , the care of our nation 's pubs is much more than an exercise in architectural conservation . |
30 | ‘ Nothing will change my commitment to the idea that a truly liberal education is much more than an examination syllabus , ’ she says . |