Example sentences of "much [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suggests a large long-legged gamebird and though mainly brown at rest shows a striking contrast in flight , with almost as much white as a flying Shelduck ( p. 51 ) . |
| 2 | As much good as a fucking chocolate ashtray . |
| 3 | ‘ Your precious George ca n't have done much good if the main burst again . ’ |
| 4 | Consider this passage about a sow : ‘ her combination of gross whiskery nakedness and riotous carnality is seized by the mythic imagination as a sort of uterus on the loose — upholstered with breasts , not so much many-breasted as a mobile tub entirely made of female sexual parts , a woman-sized , multiple udder of trotters . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's not much more than a broom cupboard , I know , but what do you think of it ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A concours Mk 1 will fetch much more than a ropy Mk 2 , perhaps six years ( and maybe 100,000 miles ) its junior . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For him a paper was much more than a published news-sheet . |
| 12 | One Sunday night at the Wood Green Odeon a group of youths and girls were making so much more than a tolerable racket that I eventually asked them to quieten down . |
| 13 | They 're justification for the ‘ he-man ’ tag , with heavy everything at low speeds and not much more than a token lightening up as you press on harder , but not so heavy as to wipe out the sports car 's essential touch of delicacy . |
| 14 | But , much more than a filmmaker like Hepworth , he had learnt to find stories that would have genuine popular appeal . |
| 15 | The Brundtland Commission may have made sustainable development the end-of-century watchword , defining it as ‘ development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs ’ , but even Tolba has wondered aloud whether it amounts to much more than a shibboleth . |
| 16 | Maybe , he 's told , he 's much more than a celebrity . |
| 17 | In fact the grouping was never much more than a rough guide . |
| 18 | The little round lawn with its grass path was so bitty that I was tempted to remove it altogether , and the two paved areas seemed too small to accommodate much more than a deckchair . |
| 19 | Mary had the chance to learn her trade as something much more than a queen consort from a politician of great skill and finesse . |
| 20 | On the opposite bank , not much more than a stream at this point , the hillside was thick with scrub hazel and thorn . |
| 21 | Ingolstadt was for some centuries the principal seat of the Bavarian dukes when Munich was not much more than a village . |
| 22 | Schmeichel is much more than a shot-stopper . |
| 23 | ‘ Highlander is much more than a place or an institution . |
| 24 | The error was to project the growth trends of the world economy from 1870 to 1914 and see the political order as not much more than a reflex of these trends . |
| 25 | Rulfo 's oral style — which manifests itself in this novel and in the stories of The Burning Plain , in the frequent repetition of words and phrases , in a manner typical of the backtracking of oral narrative — is , of course , much more than a formal device , for its function is to take us inside the world of a rural peasantry whose cultural tradition is non-literate . |
| 26 | Much more than a military commander , Pompey appointed kings and created new Roman provinces . |
| 27 | As we watched the train 's shadows turn and fold on the snowy shore , it became clear that she had not forgotten the stories which made this much more than a stark inland sea stretching as far as the eye can follow . |
| 28 | This is the point of view of one novice who discovered that diving offers much more than a free lunch , but should never be taken without tissues . |
| 29 | As the music powered into focus , it suddenly seemed much more than a mere backdrop for Morrissey 's lyrical diatribes . |
| 30 | It has already been stressed that the NACAB information system is very much more than a reference work . |