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

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1 It may be true that the story of the English people is best seen in English literature , but English literature contains much more than the story of the English people .
2 Much more than the rest of them .
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 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 .
5 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 .
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 ‘ The mission of this Government is much more than the promotion of economic progress .
8 We asked environment groups from all twelve EC member states at the annual meeting of the European Environmental Bureau held in Brussels , to remind EC governments that ‘ subsidiarity ’ means much more than the balance of power between them and the European Commission .
9 He knew she was grateful for much more than the gesture of making some tea and , instinctively , he held out his arms .
10 It is important to begin by recognizing that assessment is a process which involves much more than the collection of information and data .
11 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 .
12 But the western railway dreams encompassed much more than the settling of immigrants or the taming of native peoples ( throughout the world railways were credited with this ‘ pacificatory ’ role ) .
13 Today , helped along by Fitch Benoy 's latest radical interventions , the accretion is happily much more than the sum of its parts .
14 When the Queen takes her place in the Church of Christ the Cornerstone tomorrow , it will mean much more than the dedication of another place of worship .
15 And if they were hard done by , how much more so the rest of us .
16 The rent paid by the retailer is much less than the cost of overheads in an equivalent central location .
17 Our sun has probably got enough fuel for another five thousand million years or so , but more massive stars can use up their fuel in as little as one hundred million years , much less than the age of the universe .
18 In most stepping motor systems the winding time constant is much less than the period of rotor oscillations about each equilibrium position .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 So the rate of growth of employment was much less than the rate of accumulation ( figure 11.3 ) .
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