Example sentences of "much [adj] than [noun] " 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 | A.G. Kennedy , its most recent editor , has noted that " apart from chs. 25 – 7 there is nothing that amounts to much more than injunctions that justice should be done and that every man should do his duty " . |
| 5 | The Grand Bazaar on 19th–21st November 1891 realised over £6,000 — much more than Agnew had hoped for , and by the end of 1892 , Agnew had met his target for the Building Fund , and work commenced on the new Institute . |
| 6 | That was three-quarters of a century ago when most of those who fought here were not much more than boys . |
| 7 | Presently , she grew a little more adjusted to the noise and she began to make out the details a little more plainly ; she could see that the captives were all young men , some of them not much more than boys , but certainly strong and lithe . |
| 8 | By anybody 's calculations that is much more than inflation and allows a tremendous amount of growth — and growth there has been . |
| 9 | Those gold mines had stolen much more than gold from Africa . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | But rural England today consists of much more than agriculture and English rural society is no longer entirely , nor even predominantly , an agrarian society . |
| 13 | Excavations such as those of the German excavator Heinrich Schliemann ( 1822–90 ) at Troy and Mycenae , of the British archaeologist Arthur Evans ( 1851–1951 ) at Knossos , and of many others at this time began to prove that much more than objects for display in a museum could be recovered from these sites . |
| 14 | Navies had changed much more than armies during the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | His system would mean that single householders on good incomes would pay much more than houses containing two or more people who , together , had poor incomes . |
| 16 | The operation also entailed taking a huge swathe of land permanently to allow repairs and maintenance to take place and would disrupt farming much more than pylons would . |
| 17 | This means Zeneca might have a hard time charging much more than Merck 's price for its drug , even if Merrem is better . |
| 18 | Is it fair that some people earn much more than others in a market economy ? |
| 19 | Design is much more than problem solving . |
| 20 | The alternatives — studying people , tissue culture , computer modelling etc. — are actually used much more than animal studies . |
| 21 | A The best way to sex L. caeruleus is by the amount of black in the anal fin — males have much more than females and young females have hardly any at all . |
| 22 | Government and the HSE are well aware that the promotion and enforcement of safety demands much more than reliance on individuals and management . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Global competition is much more than rivalry among firms , for it involves the ‘ structural competitiveness ’ of states within the world system . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Down 's people are capable of much more than people realise . |
| 29 | Charles Webb , the author of the novel , who was not much more than Benjamin 's age at the time of writing , had fashioned a different ending . |
| 30 | This is much more than sociologist 's simplification ; it seems to be deeply rooted in the mind of the ordinary British citizen . " |