Example sentences of "is much [adj] [subord] " 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 | The idea behind trying to get together with Imperial was to create a world-size food company with , as it happened , tobacco money to back it up , because the cashflow from tobacco is much more than the tobacco business actually requires to sustain it . |
| 3 | But it is much more than this . |
| 4 | This unofficial ‘ Mk II ’ V8 is much more than the flagship saloon Audi wanted from the start and a fitting testament to a decade of technological advancement . |
| 5 | A film director , however , is much more than this . |
| 6 | Given what we now know , this is much more than the expected attempt to find out a demon 's identity , though it sounds very like it . |
| 7 | There , Bruce Springsteen is much more than another pop star , he is the central custodian of a set of rock ‘ n ’ roll values . |
| 8 | Schmeichel is much more than a shot-stopper . |
| 9 | ‘ Highlander is much more than a place or an institution . |
| 10 | 16.2 Reading is much more than the decoding of black marks upon a page : it is a quest for meaning and one which requires the reader to be an active participant . |
| 11 | On its simplest level the Zone denotes Germany immediately before and after military defeat , but it is much more than that . |
| 12 | Certainly it is much more than an upmarket beauty treatment , as some would have us believe . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The examples given have also indicated that local government is much more than just an agent of the centre . |
| 15 | Computer science is much more than just writing programs , and good books which combine systems understanding with language teaching are always welcome ; Brian Mayoh 's Problem Solving with Ada attempts to do this . |
| 16 | Schrader refers to the short , written out cadenza-like flourish just before the final cadences of the Prelude in F minor BWV534 as a precedent , but this does not seem justification enough , particularly as the cadenza he provides in this case is much more than merely a brief manual flourish . |
| 17 | To be involved in Earth Mysteries is much more than just reading in an armchair or researching in the library : it means going out and becoming part of the landscape . |
| 18 | Making fools of the fools who make fools of the police is a funny business , but Murder By Misadventure is much more than a hackneyed trawl through the dogma of yesterday 's psycho-dramas . |
| 19 | Of course , faith is much more than the absence of doubt , but to understand doubt is to have a key to a quiet heart and a quiet mind . |
| 20 | Doubt now is much more than a matter of uncertainty . |
| 21 | What many of the six million tourists who visit Hong Kong each year have discovered is that it is much more than a traditional eating-out and shop-till-you-drop paradise . |
| 22 | In Greek the first is much more than just horror . |
| 23 | You 'll be relieved to see that there 's a comprehensive migraine-specific treatment called Migralift , which is much more than just a painkiller . |
| 24 | ‘ Nothing will change my commitment to the idea that a truly liberal education is much more than an examination syllabus , ’ she says . |
| 25 | Meeting special educational needs in ordinary schools is much more than a process of opening school doors to admit children previously placed in special schools . |
| 26 | But Oshkosh is much more than just warbirds , the cream of the US airshow acts are one of the big attractions for the general public . |
| 27 | Sustaining men through a long sentence is much more than providing work or classes , important though they are . |
| 28 | The latter is a mere politician , whereas the former is much more than that . |
| 29 | Fumaroli 's book is much more than a polemic against the artistic policies of one government . |
| 30 | Yet it is much more than an attack on the policies of a given minister . |