Example sentences of "much more [conj] a [noun sg] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Morgan test would not appear to require much more than a knowledge of the basic facts of life . |
| 5 | But despite the self-importance of the boast , the League no longer existed as much more than a figment of its leaders ' fantasies . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Doubt now is much more than a matter of uncertainty . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But the Church is much more than a place of worship . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He could n't afford much more than a set of plastic rings let alone five gold ones . |