Example sentences of "much [adj] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horseman was very particular about his harness and was as much concerned as the farmer to keep it in good order , making frequent visits to the saddler or harness-maker who had his shop in most of the larger villages . |
| 2 | It may be true that the story of the English people is best seen in English literature , but English literature contains much more than the story of the English people . |
| 3 | ‘ Much more than the rest of them . |
| 4 | If trains on a branch line are cut then the railways may lose much more than the income from fares on the branch . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Before you are carried away by the possibilities of information manipulation for its own sake it is worth taking a step back and examining how much more than the pen , paper and adding machine you really need . |
| 7 | A sensible aid policy — not just for Russia and Eastern Europe , but for the third world in general — calls for careful priorities , realistic goals and , above all , an understanding that the quality of aid matters much more than the quantity . |
| 8 | He had come to doubt the value of all new beginnings and to put his trust in not much more than the art of hanging together . |
| 9 | To enter this competition — just study the three simple questions below and then call our 24 hour hotline — it will cost you not much more than the cost of a first class stamp . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Interest in Longhorn cattle is now based on much more than the breed 's aesthetic appeal . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Much more than the name has changed . |
| 14 | The idea of filling the engravings with white greatly added to the legibility , but the conventional cylinder ( just over two inches in diameter ) had insufficient space for much more than the title . |
| 15 | Ramsey was unusual in that to him the priest 's ordination meant much more than the deacon 's ordination . |
| 16 | ‘ The mission of this Government is much more than the promotion of economic progress . |
| 17 | Yet Nishikikoi themselves are a product of much more than the profit motive . |
| 18 | Italy 's involvement in the Spanish Civil War , in emulation of Germany , had cost much more than the government had intended , and by 1939 Mussolini must have known that the Army and Air Force were not anything like as strong as he had imagined they were , even if he did not know the extent of their weakness . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We asked environment groups from all twelve EC member states at the annual meeting of the European Environmental Bureau held in Brussels , to remind EC governments that ‘ subsidiarity ’ means much more than the balance of power between them and the European Commission . |
| 21 | Secondly the archive base became much more than the database ( or rather its constituent tables ) . |
| 22 | He knew she was grateful for much more than the gesture of making some tea and , instinctively , he held out his arms . |
| 23 | It is important to begin by recognizing that assessment is a process which involves much more than the collection of information and data . |
| 24 | In developed countries , the birth rate fluctuates much more than the death rate ( due to social and economic changes ) and is the major cause of difficulty in population projection . |
| 25 | Of course , faith is much more than the absence of doubt , but to understand doubt is to have a key to a quiet heart and a quiet mind . |
| 26 | Highgrove is much more than the house which the Prince Of Wales has made his country home . |
| 27 | In such circumstances education becomes much more than the dead-end routine it so often seems in the industrialized world . |
| 28 | They reached mass audiences , whom their ‘ messages ’ frequently interested much more than the news or the programmes that the advertisements indirectly helped pay for . |
| 29 | RUGBY is about much more than the game on the pitch . |
| 30 | This is much more than the duty levied on an annual rent increased by 17.5 per cent ( see Marsh [ 1991 ] 42 EG 94 ) . |