Example sentences of "much more [conj] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She felt — it was much more than a memory-Toss Barnet 's strong hand holding hers , his lips on her cheek .
2 This was recognised as requiring much more than a technical management process .
3 But not much more than a vague impression of the early impact of the service is provided by these figures , for without an extensive number of regional studies , it is difficult to estimate either the local variations in the success rate or the extent to which different areas established SCC systems alongside the employment bureaux .
4 If his mother 's ambition for him was not discouraged by any of the family , neither had it occasioned much more than a passing interest .
5 What many of the six million tourists who visit Hong Kong each year have discovered is that it is much more than a traditional eating-out and shop-till-you-drop paradise .
6 But most killers are not homicidal maniacs and the victim contributes much more than a mere coincidence of time and place to his own fate .
7 As the music powered into focus , it suddenly seemed much more than a mere backdrop for Morrissey 's lyrical diatribes .
8 Changes in content and style — ‘ news ’ was now moved to the front pages , there were briefer stories , news stories grew in importance as ‘ opinion and commentary ’ lost favour , different typographical styles were used to attract readers and make newspapers less severe — reflected much more than a mere process of ‘ modernization ’ .
9 For Hickey , however , the memoirs were evidently much more than a mere record of past events .
10 Over and over again , Tchaikovsky makes his pieces something much more than a mere salon diversion by forming his tunes out of small , constantly changing and evolving melodic cells .
11 In fact the grouping was never much more than a rough guide .
12 But it was so very much more than a great show .
13 That quarry , it should be said , is not much more than a small hole in the ground with banking around it .
14 One Sunday night at the Wood Green Odeon a group of youths and girls were making so much more than a tolerable racket that I eventually asked them to quieten down .
15 All that emerges from it is the sheer nastiness of a group of homosexual writers for whom the working classes were not much more than a floating brothel .
16 A concours Mk 1 will fetch much more than a ropy Mk 2 , perhaps six years ( and maybe 100,000 miles ) its junior .
17 To date this explosion has n't been that much more than a damp November 5th squib , although it has undoubtedly increased the awareness of the business community that there is rather more to making a presentation than a hand-written flipchart .
18 He was n't much more than a big puppy and an out-and-out mongrel .
19 Much more than a military commander , Pompey appointed kings and created new Roman provinces .
20 This is really not much more than a local plan for land use over a larger area , so there is now no strategic mechanism for the City of Tyneside .
21 Making fools of the fools who make fools of the police is a funny business , but Murder By Misadventure is much more than a hackneyed trawl through the dogma of yesterday 's psycho-dramas .
22 Forester had delivered the certificate and the other papers by hand to the country police station ; it was n't much more than a converted garage alongside the local man 's house , and it had n't been difficult to pick a time when it had been unattended .
23 Rulfo 's oral style — which manifests itself in this novel and in the stories of The Burning Plain , in the frequent repetition of words and phrases , in a manner typical of the backtracking of oral narrative — is , of course , much more than a formal device , for its function is to take us inside the world of a rural peasantry whose cultural tradition is non-literate .
24 Bricks and mortar used to much more than a sound investment — it was the best way to make serious money .
25 This is the point of view of one novice who discovered that diving offers much more than a free lunch , but should never be taken without tissues .
26 The handheld multimedia system that eventually emerges , therefore , will be much more than a single delivery platform .
27 Well , really not much more than a single mew , it 's so small .
28 For him a paper was much more than a published news-sheet .
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