Example sentences of "much [det] [conj] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Stanley turning out to be , in the best Ben Franklin tradition , an inventor and mechanical genius on the side , things get much more than a little too easy . |
| 2 | Indeed it is only , or at least primarily , in the development of material techniques of the fourth and fifth types that what is at first not much more than a relatively open specialization and diversity of attention becomes a formative and even determining set of divisive social relations . |
| 3 | In the other two scenes , what is involved is not much more than a relatively conventional dramatic mechanism : in the Sunday Morning scene ( Act Two , scene one ) the music in church provides a kind of running commentary to the developing quarrel between Ellen and Peter ( in the manner of countless 19th-century operas from Faust to Werther ) , while the barn dance of Act Three similarly updates an ironic tradition stretching at least from The Marriage of Figaro to Wozzeck . |
| 4 | But Burn was much more than an uncommonly clever house planner . |
| 5 | But since the scheme is a good one , and since it is only viable if some people sacrifice a lot , it is a justified scheme , even though one may be called upon , according to fair procedures , to contribute much more than the antecedently expected sacrifice . |
| 6 | He is , of course , much more than the most prodigious goalkicker the international game has seen or is likely to see , given the reduction in the number of penalty offences . |