Example sentences of "was not much [adj] [conj] [art] " 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 word favoured by headline-writers was ‘ tarnished ’ , although any lustre North had had in the media was not much more than the borrowed glow of stars whom he superficially resembled . |