Example sentences of "[was/were] not much more than " 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 | That was three-quarters of a century ago when most of those who fought here were not much more than boys . |
| 4 | These grants , although valuable , were not much more than flourishes on an already diverse collection . |
| 5 | These grants , although valuable , were not much more than flourishes on an already diverse collection . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ingolstadt was for some centuries the principal seat of the Bavarian dukes when Munich was not much more than a village . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For many young adults with severe learning difficulties this was not much more than a decade after they became ‘ entitled ’ to full-time education . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I was not much more than a child after all . |
| 12 | It was not much more than a whisper . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Mogridge of Mochica was n't much more than a boy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was n't much more than a big puppy and an out-and-out mongrel . |
| 18 | I was n't much more than a boy myself . |
| 19 | I was n't much more than your age when I took on the farm myself . |