Example sentences of "was not much [adj] [conj] a " 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 | For many young adults with severe learning difficulties this was not much more than a decade after they became ‘ entitled ’ to full-time education . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I was not much more than a child after all . |
| 5 | It was not much more than a whisper . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Mogridge of Mochica was n't much more than a boy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was n't much more than a big puppy and an out-and-out mongrel . |
| 11 | I was n't much more than a boy myself . |