Example sentences of "[be] much more [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried hard not to wonder why the word had n't been much more than a growl . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Can it really have been much more than an up-market doss-house ? |
| 5 | I never expected to be much more than a character actor . |
| 6 | The handheld multimedia system that eventually emerges , therefore , will be much more than a single delivery platform . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They should be much more than the over-all journey broken down into smaller sections . |
| 9 | It could n't be much more than an hour ? |
| 10 | Schmeichel is much more than a shot-stopper . |
| 11 | ‘ Highlander is much more than a place or an institution . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Doubt now is much more than a matter of uncertainty . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Fumaroli 's book is much more than a polemic against the artistic policies of one government . |
| 17 | Our system is much more than a word processor . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | A dojo is much more than a place where a karateka ( one who practises karate ) trains . |
| 20 | His proposed implementation of VAT on the published word is much more than a tax on learning . |
| 21 | Secondly , Foucault argues that the panopticon is much more than a building . |
| 22 | As Hadrian 's villa is much more than a villa , so Diocletian 's palace is more like a town and is also designed as a fortress . |
| 23 | What we have now is much more than a game : an exciting story to which we do not know the end ; and a visual image which will lead us to an exciting starting point for a drama , an image which we know has engaged the children . |
| 24 | But the Church is much more than a place of worship . |
| 25 | Crime is much more than a statistic to Rosemary Hunt . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |