Example sentences of "much [adj] than [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But what it shows is how , right from the earliest days , we were always much more than assembly line workers in Malcolm McLaren 's dream factory .
2 Fortunately , much more than rote learning of ‘ trays , trolleys and treatments ’ is now expected , and a preoccupation with rigid routines is a thing of the past .
3 However , there are very few people who know how to survey and excavate underwater , and because it tends to cost so much more than land archaeology it needs to be a very worthwhile site or we have to leave it alone ’ .
4 Design is much more than problem solving .
5 The alternatives — studying people , tissue culture , computer modelling etc. — are actually used much more than animal studies .
6 Wherever possible try to bring in physical and visual elements , so that the meeting is about much more than group discussion .
7 While the papacy of Pope Paul had remained uncomfortably unidentified with either ‘ progressive ’ or ‘ conservative ’ , that of John Paul became increasingly closely tied to the latter , and at times in a state of not much less than guerrilla war with the ‘ magisterium ’ of the Church 's principal theologians : a truly strange position for a pope to be in .
8 And a leading energy analyst , Walter Patterson , has calculated that IGCC plants cost more to build than natural-gas stations but much less than coal stations .
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