Example sentences of "much more than an " in BNC.
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| 1 | For these very reasons , the care of our nation 's pubs is much more than an exercise in architectural conservation . |
| 2 | Soderstrom has been , in her distinguished career , much more than an operetta singer , but her virtues , solid attack , excellent diction , and a clear , fine voice appealing more through its silvery edge than through depth or human vulnerability , are essentially charming rather than thought-provoking . |
| 3 | But Burn was much more than an uncommonly clever house planner . |
| 4 | Certainly it is much more than an upmarket beauty treatment , as some would have us believe . |
| 5 | ‘ Broad-band cable means much more than an increase in the number of TV channels , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Can it really have been much more than an up-market doss-house ? |
| 7 | ‘ Nothing will change my commitment to the idea that a truly liberal education is much more than an examination syllabus , ’ she says . |
| 8 | But this book contains much more than an exposition on the background to the Children Act and an explanation of the principles on which it is founded . |
| 9 | Yet it is much more than an attack on the policies of a given minister . |
| 10 | It could n't be much more than an hour ? |
| 11 | ‘ My wife , ’ he says in admiration , ‘ is much more than an outboard motor on the back of the Bishop . ’ |
| 12 | Bishop John and his wife Jean : ‘ My wife , ’ he says , ‘ is much more than an outboard motor on the back of the Bishop ’ |
| 13 | He could n't be expected to manage much more than an hour on his feet , after which he 'd be living up to his name , although not — Diane hoped — to his reputation . |
| 14 | Yet Morley was much more than an imitator ; he was a more gifted melodist than Gastoldi . |
| 15 | But he also gives it an edge and an urgency that turn it into much more than an abstract cafe debate . |