Example sentences of "much [adj] than [noun sg] " 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 | Religious masterpieces such as the Messiah continue to exercise a fascination which is much more than enjoyment of good tunes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By anybody 's calculations that is much more than inflation and allows a tremendous amount of growth — and growth there has been . |
| 5 | Those gold mines had stolen much more than gold from Africa . |
| 6 | Likewise on glaciers , tight ropes should prevent anybody from ever dropping much more than waist deep into a hidden crevasse — a position from which the victim can usually be dragged out . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | But rural England today consists of much more than agriculture and English rural society is no longer entirely , nor even predominantly , an agrarian society . |
| 9 | Design is much more than problem solving . |
| 10 | The alternatives — studying people , tissue culture , computer modelling etc. — are actually used much more than animal studies . |
| 11 | Government and the HSE are well aware that the promotion and enforcement of safety demands much more than reliance on individuals and management . |
| 12 | Mrs Thatcher sees the government 's role as one of pump-priming , but much more than pump-priming is required to create the conditions that would encourage private investment in the inner cities . |
| 13 | Global competition is much more than rivalry among firms , for it involves the ‘ structural competitiveness ’ of states within the world system . |
| 14 | Capital provision to support these two areas is scarce and the 1990s are going to test even the most supportive administrations to meet urgent demands for library extensions and preservation/substitution programmes , neither of which has been an established part of institutional budget planning , nor likely to receive much more than sympathy from the funding councils , except perhaps in cases where enormous growth in student numbers have caused such pressures on space . |
| 15 | So much passion ought to stem from something much more than lust , especially when the man it held in its toils was one of Luke 's calibre . |
| 16 | Listening is much more than hearing ; it is an active process whereby the listener attends exclusively to the speaker , not only to the words that he is speaking . |
| 17 | This is much more than sociologist 's simplification ; it seems to be deeply rooted in the mind of the ordinary British citizen . " |
| 18 | Inns provided much more than accommodation , for they were the venues for feasts and banquets , cultural and social activities , business ventures and political affairs . |
| 19 | Dr ‘ Richards ’ There 's much more than medicine in it … we 're not general practitioners , we 're family doctors , which means you 're a family friend . |
| 20 | Before that happens Britain will be in no position to do much more than talk about the implications of new technology . |
| 21 | The oceans provide us with much more than pleasure for the diver and beautiful photographs for the photographer ; they also give us invaluable knowledge . |
| 22 | Wherever possible try to bring in physical and visual elements , so that the meeting is about much more than group discussion . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When the space–time curvature is small , a linear approximation can be made to the metric where is the Minkowski metric and all the components are very much less than unity . |
| 25 | 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 . |