Example sentences of "[be] much [det] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can it really have been much more than an up-market doss-house ? |
| 2 | He tried hard not to wonder why the word had n't been much more than a growl . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She chewed the pencil , swallowing splinters ; what could she tell Mrs Rundle , who was now ( if she had ever been much more than ) a stranger , living at a distance , forgetting them , putting them into her past , memories packed with other memories in her bulging handbag ? |
| 5 | Do n't forget , I have lived here three months , and although I know the family to be close-fisted there can not have been much more than that . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Northamptonshire paid £1,000 in coat-and-conduct money alone , though as an inland shire its expenses on fortification would have been much less than Norfolk 's . |
| 8 | The advantage of buying in a local store in Europe is that although you have to pay local duty , it is likely to be much less than in the UK . |
| 9 | The continuing spell of dry weather in much of eastern Britain has caused recharge to groundwater in the winter of 1990/91 to be much less than normal , and groundwater levels are greatly depressed in consequence , particularly in the Chalk of East Anglia . |
| 10 | It is a good illustration of one of the reasons why I withdrew this subsection , in that the cost to the employer in this instance could be much less than the arm's-length cost to the outside person taking advantage of such a service . ’ |
| 11 | The output of the summing device will be much less than K. |
| 12 | Usually damages will be much less than the price and the seller also has the inconvenience of having to find another buyer . |
| 13 | Lord Cross accepted that the " significant proportion " test was the standard which the justices were required to apply , but stressed that " a significant proportion of a class means a part which is not numerically negligible but which may be much less than half . " |
| 14 | The dedication to their appearance of stars such as the luminous , fiftyish , Catherine Deneuve , sixtyish socialites such as Marie Helene de Rothschild or Helene de Mortemart and political wives such as Bernadette Chirac and Claude Pompidou , may be much more than simple vanity and may involve no self-admiration at all . |
| 15 | Just think : the average age of the Iraqi soldier is 19 , the average age of the British soldiers ca n't be much more than that |
| 16 | Consideration of these facts should be enough to alert us to the possibility that the totality of our being may be much more than just the physical body , and that we may not be in any sense only machines . |
| 17 | As it was , our retreat turned out to be much more than that — it was a warm experience where we shared thoughts and feelings with others , and where our static everyday lives were challenged . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It could n't be much more than an hour ? |
| 20 | I never expected to be much more than a character actor . |
| 21 | It should always be much more than just another suit . ’ |
| 22 | They should be much more than the over-all journey broken down into smaller sections . |
| 23 | The handheld multimedia system that eventually emerges , therefore , will be much more than a single delivery platform . |
| 24 | And I for what I 'm trying to do I did n't think we 'd be able to afford a stone I thought I thought it would be much more than what Mr 's quoted . |
| 25 | For these very reasons , the care of our nation 's pubs is much more than an exercise in architectural conservation . |
| 26 | The idea behind trying to get together with Imperial was to create a world-size food company with , as it happened , tobacco money to back it up , because the cashflow from tobacco is much more than the tobacco business actually requires to sustain it . |
| 27 | But it is much more than this . |
| 28 | This unofficial ‘ Mk II ’ V8 is much more than the flagship saloon Audi wanted from the start and a fitting testament to a decade of technological advancement . |
| 29 | A film director , however , is much more than this . |
| 30 | Given what we now know , this is much more than the expected attempt to find out a demon 's identity , though it sounds very like it . |