Example sentences of "[noun] is [det] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your eurocheque card is much more than just a support for your eurocheques . |
| 2 | ‘ Highlander is much more than a place or an institution . |
| 3 | Crime is much more than a statistic to Rosemary Hunt . |
| 4 | The ANLT is much more than just a parser , it is a development tool for the production of testing of grammars and morphological processors . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | No British university , in any case , is or ever has been socially exclusive , and the myth of an undergraduate Brideshead of champagne lunches set among gothic quadrangles is little more than an effect of Evelyn Waugh 's selective social recollection . |
| 7 | To be involved in Earth Mysteries is much more than just reading in an armchair or researching in the library : it means going out and becoming part of the landscape . |
| 8 | Listening is much more than hearing ; it is an active process whereby the listener attends exclusively to the speaker , not only to the words that he is speaking . |
| 9 | For these very reasons , the care of our nation 's pubs is much more than an exercise in architectural conservation . |
| 10 | The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 ! |
| 11 | Thus the Sizewell inquiry is little more than an expensive public relations exercise . |
| 12 | Highgrove is much more than the house which the Prince Of Wales has made his country home . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 16.2 Reading is much more than the decoding of black marks upon a page : it is a quest for meaning and one which requires the reader to be an active participant . |
| 15 | There , Bruce Springsteen is much more than another pop star , he is the central custodian of a set of rock ‘ n ’ roll values . |
| 16 | ‘ Nothing will change my commitment to the idea that a truly liberal education is much more than an examination syllabus , ’ she says . |
| 17 | This work with great and powerful climaxes in first and last movements ; with a scherzo as light as thistledown , a truly poetic slow movement and tremendous pageantry in the finale is much more than a series of vignettes of a great city . |
| 18 | The restoration of contemporary art is little more than a childish effort to arrest artistic expression at its moment of birth a mistaken longing for eternal youth . |
| 19 | For more manipulative members of the older generation , a will is much more than a simple legal document — it is a voice from beyond the grave , rewarding good children with the best spoons , and cutting the naughty ones off with a shilling |
| 20 | However , at low water , the river is little more than a trickle . |
| 21 | But Oshkosh is much more than just warbirds , the cream of the US airshow acts are one of the big attractions for the general public . |
| 22 | Global competition is much more than rivalry among firms , for it involves the ‘ structural competitiveness ’ of states within the world system . |
| 23 | His proposed implementation of VAT on the published word is much more than a tax on learning . |
| 24 | The examples given have also indicated that local government is much more than just an agent of the centre . |
| 25 | ‘ The mission of this Government is much more than the promotion of economic progress . |
| 26 | Because the small Brigadier they call The Ciskei Kid is little more than a puppet on a string . |
| 27 | As Rene Padilla cautions , ‘ To speak of the Kingdom of God is to speak of the purpose of God , of which the empirical church is little more than a pale reflection ’ ( Padilla 1975:43 ) . |
| 28 | But the Church is much more than a place of worship . |
| 29 | Computer science is much more than just writing programs , and good books which combine systems understanding with language teaching are always welcome ; Brian Mayoh 's Problem Solving with Ada attempts to do this . |
| 30 | It must be said , however , that despite the beautiful detail of Piaget 's behavioural descriptions , his picture of the mental reorganizations underlying behavioural change was painted with a very broad brush ( by present-day standards ) ; and indeed the assimilation-accommodation model is little more than a description of what has to be explained , awaiting , what we now call , a ‘ computational model ’ . |