Example sentences of "much more than [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She felt — it was much more than a memory-Toss Barnet 's strong hand holding hers , his lips on her cheek . |
2 | This was recognised as requiring much more than a technical management process . |
3 | But not much more than a vague impression of the early impact of the service is provided by these figures , for without an extensive number of regional studies , it is difficult to estimate either the local variations in the success rate or the extent to which different areas established SCC systems alongside the employment bureaux . |
4 | If his mother 's ambition for him was not discouraged by any of the family , neither had it occasioned much more than a passing interest . |
5 | What many of the six million tourists who visit Hong Kong each year have discovered is that it is much more than a traditional eating-out and shop-till-you-drop paradise . |
6 | But most killers are not homicidal maniacs and the victim contributes much more than a mere coincidence of time and place to his own fate . |
7 | As the music powered into focus , it suddenly seemed much more than a mere backdrop for Morrissey 's lyrical diatribes . |
8 | Changes in content and style — ‘ news ’ was now moved to the front pages , there were briefer stories , news stories grew in importance as ‘ opinion and commentary ’ lost favour , different typographical styles were used to attract readers and make newspapers less severe — reflected much more than a mere process of ‘ modernization ’ . |
9 | For Hickey , however , the memoirs were evidently much more than a mere record of past events . |
10 | Over and over again , Tchaikovsky makes his pieces something much more than a mere salon diversion by forming his tunes out of small , constantly changing and evolving melodic cells . |
11 | In fact the grouping was never much more than a rough guide . |
12 | But it was so very much more than a great show . |
13 | That quarry , it should be said , is not much more than a small hole in the ground with banking around it . |
14 | One Sunday night at the Wood Green Odeon a group of youths and girls were making so much more than a tolerable racket that I eventually asked them to quieten down . |
15 | All that emerges from it is the sheer nastiness of a group of homosexual writers for whom the working classes were not much more than a floating brothel . |
16 | A concours Mk 1 will fetch much more than a ropy Mk 2 , perhaps six years ( and maybe 100,000 miles ) its junior . |
17 | To date this explosion has n't been that much more than a damp November 5th squib , although it has undoubtedly increased the awareness of the business community that there is rather more to making a presentation than a hand-written flipchart . |
18 | He was n't much more than a big puppy and an out-and-out mongrel . |
19 | Much more than a military commander , Pompey appointed kings and created new Roman provinces . |
20 | This is really not much more than a local plan for land use over a larger area , so there is now no strategic mechanism for the City of Tyneside . |
21 | A little while ago , not much more than a few days ago , I was a child who went about in a world of colours , of hard and tangible forms . |
22 | Making fools of the fools who make fools of the police is a funny business , but Murder By Misadventure is much more than a hackneyed trawl through the dogma of yesterday 's psycho-dramas . |
23 | Forester had delivered the certificate and the other papers by hand to the country police station ; it was n't much more than a converted garage alongside the local man 's house , and it had n't been difficult to pick a time when it had been unattended . |
24 | Rulfo 's oral style — which manifests itself in this novel and in the stories of The Burning Plain , in the frequent repetition of words and phrases , in a manner typical of the backtracking of oral narrative — is , of course , much more than a formal device , for its function is to take us inside the world of a rural peasantry whose cultural tradition is non-literate . |
25 | Bricks and mortar used to much more than a sound investment — it was the best way to make serious money . |
26 | This is the point of view of one novice who discovered that diving offers much more than a free lunch , but should never be taken without tissues . |
27 | The handheld multimedia system that eventually emerges , therefore , will be much more than a single delivery platform . |
28 | Well , really not much more than a single mew , it 's so small . |
29 | For him a paper was much more than a published news-sheet . |
30 | ‘ My wife , ’ he says in admiration , ‘ is much more than an outboard motor on the back of the Bishop . ’ |