Example sentences of "not much more [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ingolstadt was for some centuries the principal seat of the Bavarian dukes when Munich was not much more than a village . |
| 2 | ‘ And not much more than a child herself — only five years older than Tommy . ’ |
| 3 | I was not much more than a child after all . |
| 4 | The error was to project the growth trends of the world economy from 1870 to 1914 and see the political order as not much more than a reflex of these trends . |
| 5 | Addamax , now not much more than a shell , will be left to wage the suit and complete the government 's Orange Book evaluation of the Compartmented Mode Workstation . |
| 6 | Addamax , now not much more than a shell , will be left with waging the suit and completing the government 's Orange Book evaluation of the CMW . |
| 7 | Not much more than a century later the king 's successor made his submission to the British after the punitive raid on Benin City . |
| 8 | For many young adults with severe learning difficulties this was not much more than a decade after they became ‘ entitled ’ to full-time education . |
| 9 | Who is to say what it was like living out on the plains for months on end , at first in a tent and then in a small house , not much more than a hut , built of saplings , mud , and cow dung , which she equipped with Somali fabrics and safari furniture ? |
| 10 | In Britain CCM is not much more than a cottage industry , largely because of lack of radio exposure . |
| 11 | Though the thermal establishment itself is quite stately , in the normal style of these amenities , the village is tightly shut in by the mountains on either side and is not much more than a ribbon of dark houses strung out along the main road . |
| 12 | Joan was recalling the day , not much more than a year ago , when she had found herself alone in a locked room with the innkeeper . |
| 13 | Indeed the Street Offences Bill was in Parliament not much more than a year after the Report had been published . |
| 14 | Within not much more than a year , the Boy Scouts had already outstripped the older Boys ' Brigade and Church Lads ' Brigade movements , claiming more than 100,000 members by 1910 . |
| 15 | While at the Royal Academy of Music she had lived there but that , though not much more than a year ago , now seemed infinitely distant . |
| 16 | not much more than a year , but they 've . |
| 17 | Led by this hint they opened the ground not far from the wall ; and not much more than a foot away from the surface they found a leaden envelope which they opened in two places , on the face and breast , and found it contained a human body wrapped in cerecloth : Upon removing what covered the face , they discovered the features , and particularly the eyes , in perfect preservation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Because its period is not much more than a month shorter than a year , there are times when maxima occur with Mira too close to the Sun to be seen . |
| 20 | The newsroom was minuscule , not much more than a cubbyhole , next door to Monty 's cluttered little office . |
| 21 | They 're justification for the ‘ he-man ’ tag , with heavy everything at low speeds and not much more than a token lightening up as you press on harder , but not so heavy as to wipe out the sports car 's essential touch of delicacy . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | and Joan came over she came over about a week or so after , not , not much more than a week , and she sat there and she said oh well yeah I 'll have one of your , he asked if we 'd like a sweet , she said yeah I 'll have one dad . |
| 24 | Efforts were made to persuade Jamaica to follow Barbados , and a twenty-one year grant to cover the island 's own expenses was voted in 1683 , but this grant was not large enough to provide any surplus to spend elsewhere and was not much more than a recognition that the government in England was not going to spend its money covering the costs of local government for Englishmen who had gone overseas . |
| 25 | On the opposite bank , not much more than a stream at this point , the hillside was thick with scrub hazel and thorn . |
| 26 | Erm presidents of the nineteenth century very often took the view that the president was not much more than a sort of constitutional monarch , er a dignified part of the constitution to use er Bagehot 's phrase . |
| 27 | It 's not much more than a broom cupboard , I know , but what do you think of it ? ’ |
| 28 | " Mr. Mottram ? " she asked in not much more than a whisper . |
| 29 | It was not much more than a whisper . |
| 30 | It was n't a baby yet , just a potential ; not much more than a seed . |