Example sentences of "much [adj] [subord] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yet Nishikikoi themselves are a product of much more than the profit motive . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In developed countries , the birth rate fluctuates much more than the death rate ( due to social and economic changes ) and is the major cause of difficulty in population projection . |
| 5 | In such circumstances education becomes much more than the dead-end routine it so often seems in the industrialized world . |
| 6 | The point effectively being made is that , if making a poor person better off by £1 via a redistributive transfer reduces the income of the rich person by more than £1 ( because of , say , the necessary administrative costs of the transfer and/or the disincentive effects to earn in the market-place ) , how much more than the £1 gain to the poor is an acceptable ‘ price ’ ? |
| 7 | Two thirds of all Clio sales were conquest sales from buyers who previously owned cars from other manufacturers — much more than the industry average of 50% . |
| 8 | In his eyes I amount to nothing , much , much less than the sum total of him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Japanese institutions , once the biggest consumers of privately placed paper from Europe , have bought much less since the Tokyo stockmarket crashed last year . |