Example sentences of "much [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Fumaroli 's book is much more than a polemic against the artistic policies of one government . |
| 3 | The change to a community-based service … involves much more than a change to the pattern of service provision . |
| 4 | Crime is much more than a statistic to Rosemary Hunt . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There have been umpteen books on the subject before , but Ferris brings such sly humour , such a floodgate of poignant details , and such a tone of innocent surprise to the proceedings , that it all reads as much more than a round-up of the usual phenomena . |
| 7 | The Paris museum ( colloquially known as the Jardin des Plantes ) was much more than a museum for the display of exotic specimens . |
| 8 | But even now , a woman has to achieve much more than a man in order to gain respect or " promotion " . |
| 9 | The Morgan test would not appear to require much more than a knowledge of the basic facts of life . |
| 10 | ‘ It is declared that a good wife is a crown to her husband , but Mrs. Crawley had been much more than a crown to him … she had been crown , throne and sceptre all in one ’ . |
| 11 | Whereas the parachute keeps the cable under tension as it drops , if there is a cross wind it tends to drift much more than a rope with no chute . |
| 12 | But , much more than a filmmaker like Hepworth , he had learnt to find stories that would have genuine popular appeal . |
| 13 | I was not much more than a child after all . |
| 14 | In the United States and Canada the country station , with or without garden , was much more than a stopping-place for passing trains . |
| 15 | But despite the self-importance of the boast , the League no longer existed as much more than a figment of its leaders ' fantasies . |
| 16 | Meeting special educational needs in ordinary schools is much more than a process of opening school doors to admit children previously placed in special schools . |
| 17 | The war was unlikely to become much more than a dispute over frontier posts , in which success would depend to a considerable extent on winning the support of the Indians who lived in the wide area between the colonies . |
| 18 | All in all , a pitiful collection , but he was n't so self-deceiving as to believe their relationship had been much more than a sum of those parts . |
| 19 | His proposed implementation of VAT on the published word is much more than a tax on learning . |
| 20 | In the absence of any corporate direction , BR 's excursion trains then were not much more than a mishmash of bright and not so bright ideas by divisional and area managers , which lost as much money as they made . |
| 21 | Doubt now is much more than a matter of uncertainty . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But the Church is much more than a place of worship . |
| 24 | For so long she 'd held the secrets of her past under lock and key , barely allowing even Kelly much more than a glimpse into her background . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On the opposite bank , not much more than a stream at this point , the hillside was thick with scrub hazel and thorn . |
| 27 | He could n't afford much more than a set of plastic rings let alone five gold ones . |
| 28 | Stu , I mean I live in Glasgow , the chances of me leaving Glasgow are pro , pre pretty slim but yeah , I certainly do n't want to stay in Scotland because of any loyalty , that I do n't think it 's given me very much other than a lot of experience , a lot of struggle , a lot of opportunities to stand alongside working class people and fight against , you know , the injustices . |