Example sentences of "was much [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fullers and carpenters required 20 marks for admission to the livery in the late fifteenth century , but in each case the total number of assessments was much less than the number in the contemporary lists , twenty-six and twenty-four respectively , compared with between thirty and forty . |
| 2 | So the rate of growth of employment was much less than the rate of accumulation ( figure 11.3 ) . |
| 3 | The Paris museum ( colloquially known as the Jardin des Plantes ) was much more than a museum for the display of exotic specimens . |
| 4 | As the formula clearly involved some reduction in wages , this was much more than a formality . |
| 5 | In the United States and Canada the country station , with or without garden , was much more than a stopping-place for passing trains . |
| 6 | At present , therefore , it is impossible to say with any confidence whether the influence of Milan was much more than a matter of banal repetition of a few characteristic physiognomic types . |
| 7 | Yet Morley was much more than an imitator ; he was a more gifted melodist than Gastoldi . |