Example sentences of "much [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be true that the story of the English people is best seen in English literature , but English literature contains much more than the story of the English people . |
| 2 | ‘ Much more than the rest of them . |
| 3 | If trains on a branch line are cut then the railways may lose much more than the income from fares on the branch . |
| 4 | 16.2 Reading is much more than the decoding of black marks upon a page : it is a quest for meaning and one which requires the reader to be an active participant . |
| 5 | He had come to doubt the value of all new beginnings and to put his trust in not much more than the art of hanging together . |
| 6 | To enter this competition — just study the three simple questions below and then call our 24 hour hotline — it will cost you not much more than the cost of a first class stamp . |
| 7 | Pricing has n't been finalised , but the firm says it should n't be much more than the cost of the Motif implementations it supplies . |
| 8 | ‘ The mission of this Government is much more than the promotion of economic progress . |
| 9 | We asked environment groups from all twelve EC member states at the annual meeting of the European Environmental Bureau held in Brussels , to remind EC governments that ‘ subsidiarity ’ means much more than the balance of power between them and the European Commission . |
| 10 | He knew she was grateful for much more than the gesture of making some tea and , instinctively , he held out his arms . |
| 11 | It is important to begin by recognizing that assessment is a process which involves much more than the collection of information and data . |
| 12 | Of course , faith is much more than the absence of doubt , but to understand doubt is to have a key to a quiet heart and a quiet mind . |
| 13 | RUGBY is about much more than the game on the pitch . |
| 14 | But the western railway dreams encompassed much more than the settling of immigrants or the taming of native peoples ( throughout the world railways were credited with this ‘ pacificatory ’ role ) . |
| 15 | Today , helped along by Fitch Benoy 's latest radical interventions , the accretion is happily much more than the sum of its parts . |
| 16 | When the Queen takes her place in the Church of Christ the Cornerstone tomorrow , it will mean much more than the dedication of another place of worship . |
| 17 | And if they were hard done by , how much more so the rest of us . |
| 18 | The rent paid by the retailer is much less than the cost of overheads in an equivalent central location . |
| 19 | Our sun has probably got enough fuel for another five thousand million years or so , but more massive stars can use up their fuel in as little as one hundred million years , much less than the age of the universe . |
| 20 | In most stepping motor systems the winding time constant is much less than the period of rotor oscillations about each equilibrium position . |
| 21 | This is much less than the temperature of the microwave radiation that fills the universe ( about 2.7° ) above absolute zero ) , so such black holes would emit even less than they absorb . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For low values of current ill the pole windings the flux density in the stator/rotor iron is small and the reluctance of these parts of the flux path is much less than the reluctance of the air-gap between the stator and rotor teeth . |
| 24 | Three hours a day for seven days a week would therefore amount to much less than the maximum for residential care . |
| 25 | So the rate of growth of employment was much less than the rate of accumulation ( figure 11.3 ) . |
| 26 | There are high concentrations in the top fifteen inches , but when we get below the next layer , the concentrations become very much less and the ratio of the two concentrations does n't change very much . |