Example sentences of "[prep] much more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of filling the engravings with white greatly added to the legibility , but the conventional cylinder ( just over two inches in diameter ) had insufficient space for much more than the title . |
| 2 | However , we found the machine could still be used for much more than the average heat gun . |
| 3 | Ca n't ask for much more than that . |
| 4 | He knew she was grateful for much more than the gesture of making some tea and , instinctively , he held out his arms . |
| 5 | Unfortunately this does not appear to work the other way ; the shipowners would not be entitled to any share in a windfall profit if the market value of the cargo increased dramatically and was sold for much more than if it had arrived on time . |
| 6 | At the classroom level , the teaching and learning methods have to be organised to allow for much more than simple coverage of the topic . |
| 7 | " Certain persons , " he wrote , " are by common consent agreed to be wiser than others , and their opinion is , by consent , to rank for much more than its numerical value . " |
| 8 | Of course we have the additional complication that the over- large government bureaucracy 's at present run by a political party which seems to have given up thinking about anything much other than staying in power and I know and hope that you will be part of thinking about much more than that , but still even with a large union , you could regulate concentrate on stimulating the grass roots and then on building upwards . |
| 9 | As the income of the much smaller Missenden Abbey was given as £160 , compared with £262 net in 1535 , its goods may have been worth much more than the £140 assessed . |
| 10 | Yet Nishikikoi themselves are a product of much more than the profit motive . |
| 11 | Many of these features are unique to these mountains , and make them of much more than mere climbing interest . |
| 12 | Yet modern Japan is also the product of much more than recent upheavals . |
| 13 | But rural England today consists of much more than agriculture and English rural society is no longer entirely , nor even predominantly , an agrarian society . |
| 14 | Yet the very large canton Bern consists of much more than its Oberland . |
| 15 | Down 's people are capable of much more than people realise . |
| 16 | But he also gives it an edge and an urgency that turn it into much more than an abstract cafe debate . |
| 17 | The oceans provide us with much more than pleasure for the diver and beautiful photographs for the photographer ; they also give us invaluable knowledge . |
| 18 | Needless to say , an attempt to destroy a country 's ecosystem takes a toll in much more than trees and reedbeds , and the fact that Vietnam has any wildlife left at all may seem remarkable . |
| 19 | The Brundtland Commission may have made sustainable development the end-of-century watchword , defining it as ‘ development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs ’ , but even Tolba has wondered aloud whether it amounts to much more than a shibboleth . |
| 20 | While the early Waltz-Caprices , composed when Reger was only 19 years of age and a student at the Wiesbaden Conservatory , are evidently modelled on the numerous dance sets by Brahms ( yet another of the composer 's musical heroes ) , they amount to much more than blatant pastiche . |
| 21 | The men firing those guns , manning the walls , shooting from the high galleries might not amount to much more than half that number . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm afraid my cooking does n't extend to much more than scrambled eggs or sardines on toast , ’ said Julia , feeling thoroughly useless . |
| 23 | Bricks and mortar used to much more than a sound investment — it was the best way to make serious money . |
| 24 | In a larger organization the resources controller can be of great use in ensuring that the original requests for resources do not add up to much more than is available , in preparing and circulating the form in its agenda stage , then collecting the decisions at the meeting , entering them on the form alongside the requests and recirculating it . |
| 25 | A.G. Kennedy , its most recent editor , has noted that " apart from chs. 25 – 7 there is nothing that amounts to much more than injunctions that justice should be done and that every man should do his duty " . |
| 26 | And they could hold the key to much more than that . |
| 27 | Interest in Longhorn cattle is now based on much more than the breed 's aesthetic appeal . |
| 28 | Yet the striking developments of the law of trusts depend on much more than this : they are an integral part of the conception of a trust as opposed to a legacy . |
| 29 | Formal observation techniques and equipment are designed to reduce this discrepancy to a minimum but the nursing process depends on much more than can be obtained by this means ; therefore it is important for the teacher to have some understanding of the factors that affect the formation of percepts so that she can help the nurse to make accurate judgements where these are possible and to be sufficiently receptive and mentally flexible to consider more than one possible judgement as basis for action . |
| 30 | I wanted a pay rise because I found out I was way behind most of the first-team lads and barely on much more than the apprentices ' wages . |