Example sentences of "much [adj] than [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In Britain CCM is not much more than a cottage industry , largely because of lack of radio exposure . |
2 | Our system is much more than a word processor . |
3 | Mary had the chance to learn her trade as something much more than a queen consort from a politician of great skill and finesse . |
4 | I never expected to be much more than a character actor . |
5 | Sharpe knew he was seeing much more than a cavalry raid , though he was not certain whether this was the real invasion . |
6 | It has already been stressed that the NACAB information system is very much more than a reference work . |
7 | It is not much more than a landing strip hacked out of the Canadian wilderness in eastern Ontario , about 200 miles north east of Winnipeg . |
8 | It 's not much more than a broom cupboard , I know , but what do you think of it ? ’ |
9 | It is time that technical education remained not much more than a debating topic , although the Education Act 1918 , did make 14 the universal minimum leaving age and , far more controversial , it began to introduce compulsory part-time day continuation classes . |
10 | It was n't much more than a fishing village until the eighteenth century when French Jesuits and a few merchants demanded the right to build a city . |
11 | It 's really much more than a cleaning service because it has helped me emotionally , ’ she says . |
12 | The language used throughout these public self-descriptions reflected general visions of altruism and service : ‘ public protection ’ , ‘ willing to serve the public ’ , ‘ public confidence ’ , ‘ trust ’ , ‘ special skill ’ , ‘ the supply of professional services is very much more than a business transaction ’ . |
13 | Soderstrom has been , in her distinguished career , much more than an operetta singer , but her virtues , solid attack , excellent diction , and a clear , fine voice appealing more through its silvery edge than through depth or human vulnerability , are essentially charming rather than thought-provoking . |
14 | ‘ Nothing will change my commitment to the idea that a truly liberal education is much more than an examination syllabus , ’ she says . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Yet Nishikikoi themselves are a product of much more than the profit motive . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | In such circumstances education becomes much more than the dead-end routine it so often seems in the industrialized world . |
20 | 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 ’ ? |
21 | 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% . |
22 | In his eyes I amount to nothing , much , much less than the sum total of him . |
23 | 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 . |