Example sentences of "was much more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | For him a paper was much more than a published news-sheet . |
| 2 | In the face of such mystery , God was much more than just a protective wing to creep under . |
| 3 | The certain mystique it had was much more than just Cowboys and Indians on television . |
| 4 | This was much more than in the same period of 1973–75 , slightly more than in 1980 and similar to the decline in the first nine months of the 1981–82 recession . |
| 5 | Jamaicans felt it was much more than that . |
| 6 | But Reshevsky was much more than that . |
| 7 | But Burn was much more than an uncommonly clever house planner . |
| 8 | She felt — it was much more than a memory-Toss Barnet 's strong hand holding hers , his lips on her cheek . |
| 9 | Many of these ingredients were indeed present , but as the months passed I became increasingly aware that there was much more than just science at work here . |
| 10 | At present , therefore , it is impossible to say with any confidence whether the influence of Milan was much more than a matter of banal repetition of a few characteristic physiognomic types . |
| 11 | As the formula clearly involved some reduction in wages , this was much more than a formality . |
| 12 | Some literary historians have gone even further and have suggested that courtly love was much more than just a fashionable and pleasant way of passing time . |
| 13 | This was much more than we had expected and was largely due to the need to raise the path to the front door , which involved relocating two man-hole covers . |
| 14 | This was much more than I expected when I first had the idea in 1982 of writing a popular book about the universe . |
| 15 | This parliamentary etiquette was much more than mere expression of ‘ Victorian prurience ’ . |
| 16 | The Paris museum ( colloquially known as the Jardin des Plantes ) was much more than a museum for the display of exotic specimens . |
| 17 | Yet Morley was much more than an imitator ; he was a more gifted melodist than Gastoldi . |
| 18 | In the United States and Canada the country station , with or without garden , was much more than a stopping-place for passing trains . |
| 19 | The fact was that he was soured by a murder case with no body , by family enmity amounting to hatred , by a surfeit of gossip and a veneer of superstition which was much more than half pretence . |
| 20 | Dunlop 's surplus was therefore distributed and nearly all of it went to Morrison to put him 819 above McLachlan which was much more than the undistributed surplus of Lindsay . |
| 21 | But Coffin knew it was much more than that . |
| 22 | That of 1814 , however , became known as the Great Revival and it was much more than simply a recruitment phenomenon . |
| 23 | ( g ) Skipp is to be treated as a case where " there was much more than the mere consent of the owner . |
| 24 | But his policy as a whole was much more than mere posturing . |
| 25 | He said the order , set up in 1099 as a religious order , was much more than just the ambulance service . |