Example sentences of "[was/were] not much more " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Nevertheless I fear our debates were not much more edifying . |
| 4 | That was three-quarters of a century ago when most of those who fought here were not much more than boys . |
| 5 | These grants , although valuable , were not much more than flourishes on an already diverse collection . |
| 6 | These grants , although valuable , were not much more than flourishes on an already diverse collection . |
| 7 | Not the slightest mention of money , either , for an interview in depth from , offhand , Gavaskar , Richards , Botham , Willis , Marshall , McEnroe , Connors or Borg — though the latter , I must admit , was expecting me to stay the day , yet by elevenses we agreed there was not much more to say to each other except ‘ My game 's in pretty good shape ’ . |
| 8 | Not the slightest mention of money , either , for an interview in depth from , offhand , Gavaskar , Richards , Botham , Willis , Marshall , McEnroe , Connors or Borg — though the latter , I must admit , was expecting me to stay the day , yet by elevenses we agreed there was not much more to say to each other except ‘ My game 's in pretty good shape ’ . |
| 9 | The word favoured by headline-writers was ‘ tarnished ’ , although any lustre North had had in the media was not much more than the borrowed glow of stars whom he superficially resembled . |
| 10 | Ingolstadt was for some centuries the principal seat of the Bavarian dukes when Munich was not much more than a village . |
| 11 | Charles Webb , the author of the novel , who was not much more than Benjamin 's age at the time of writing , had fashioned a different ending . |
| 12 | For many young adults with severe learning difficulties this was not much more than a decade after they became ‘ entitled ’ to full-time education . |
| 13 | Efforts were made to persuade Jamaica to follow Barbados , and a twenty-one year grant to cover the island 's own expenses was voted in 1683 , but this grant was not large enough to provide any surplus to spend elsewhere and was not much more than a recognition that the government in England was not going to spend its money covering the costs of local government for Englishmen who had gone overseas . |
| 14 | I was not much more than a child after all . |
| 15 | There were times when he thought Maisie was not much more of a Muslim than he was . |
| 16 | It was not much more than a whisper . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
| 19 | There was n't much more Ma Katz could do to her face that Elder Seth had n't , but lines of pain opened up , and Jazzbeaux felt her vision distorting . |
| 20 | Well , he was n't much more , was he ? |
| 21 | The Mogridge of Mochica was n't much more than a boy . |
| 22 | It was n't much more than a fishing village until the eighteenth century when French Jesuits and a few merchants demanded the right to build a city . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was n't much more than a big puppy and an out-and-out mongrel . |
| 25 | I was n't much more than a boy myself . |
| 26 | I was n't much more than your age when I took on the farm myself . |
| 27 | It was alright but I just hoped that there was n't much more of it . |