Example sentences of "much [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Of course , we are all too aware of the physiological symptoms which result from anger and which take much more than a second to show their effect and presence : the forehead bunched in a frown , the staring eyes , the constricted pupils , the clenched mouth and fists , the jaw thrust forward , the reddened neck or face and enlarged arteries due to the increase in the blood supply to the skin . |
| 32 | For many young adults with severe learning difficulties this was not much more than a decade after they became ‘ entitled ’ to full-time education . |
| 33 | Schmeichel is much more than a shot-stopper . |
| 34 | I never expected to be much more than a character actor . |
| 35 | Ingolstadt was for some centuries the principal seat of the Bavarian dukes when Munich was not much more than a village . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | The Morgan test would not appear to require much more than a knowledge of the basic facts of life . |
| 38 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 39 | Whereas the parachute keeps the cable under tension as it drops , if there is a cross wind it tends to drift much more than a rope with no chute . |
| 40 | But , much more than a filmmaker like Hepworth , he had learnt to find stories that would have genuine popular appeal . |
| 41 | ‘ And not much more than a child herself — only five years older than Tommy . ’ |
| 42 | I was not much more than a child after all . |
| 43 | In the United States and Canada the country station , with or without garden , was much more than a stopping-place for passing trains . |
| 44 | Secondly , Foucault argues that the panopticon is much more than a building . |
| 45 | You had put on much more than a dress , there was such a vivid aura of theatre and drama surrounding it . |
| 46 | It has already been stressed that the NACAB information system is very much more than a reference work . |
| 47 | It is not much more than a landing strip hacked out of the Canadian wilderness in eastern Ontario , about 200 miles north east of Winnipeg . |
| 48 | But despite the self-importance of the boast , the League no longer existed as much more than a figment of its leaders ' fantasies . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | The war was unlikely to become much more than a dispute over frontier posts , in which success would depend to a considerable extent on winning the support of the Indians who lived in the wide area between the colonies . |
| 51 | It 's not much more than a broom cupboard , I know , but what do you think of it ? ’ |
| 52 | It is time that technical education remained not much more than a debating topic , although the Education Act 1918 , did make 14 the universal minimum leaving age and , far more controversial , it began to introduce compulsory part-time day continuation classes . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | It 's really much more than a cleaning service because it has helped me emotionally , ’ she says . |
| 55 | And someone else might catch it and get much more than a spot or two , so you see , you must be public-spirited about this . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | Because its period is not much more than a month shorter than a year , there are times when maxima occur with Mira too close to the Sun to be seen . |
| 58 | His proposed implementation of VAT on the published word is much more than a tax on learning . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | and Joan came over she came over about a week or so after , not , not much more than a week , and she sat there and she said oh well yeah I 'll have one of your , he asked if we 'd like a sweet , she said yeah I 'll have one dad . |