Example sentences of "much more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within democratic societies like our own there is much more that librarians can do and should do against censorship . |
| 2 | The depreciation of sterling should help to bring this about and , although there might in time be scope for some further slight fall in interest rates , it is doubtful if there is much more that the Chancellor can do . |
| 3 | The depreciation of sterling should help to bring this about and , although there might in time be scope for some further slight fall in interest rates , it is doubtful if there is much more that the Chancellor can do . |
| 4 | Cadbury , which declined to comment on speculation , recently acquired the Gigi brand name when it bought Crush from Procter&Gamble , but it is understood it would be reluctant to pay much more than £150million for the Perrier business . |
| 5 | With every hot day in July worth so much more than one in the mists of September , the later start threatens to take the gloss of what , at first glance , seems set to be a good harvest . |
| 6 | Channel 5 will never reach much more than 70 per cent of the population , missing out , for technical reasons , much of the South . |
| 7 | An attenuation of latent inhibition with a long interval between exposure and conditioning has not always been found , even in flavour-aversion learning — Nachman and Jones ( 1974 ) and Siegel ( 1974 ) have found the latent inhibition effect to persist in strength at intervals of much more than 3.5 h . |
| 8 | ‘ This is a great mystery , ’ declares the apostle Paul , for it is so much more than two people getting together . |
| 9 | Groom ( if much more than ten years older than bride ) can look a bit of a Lothario as he escorts her down the aisle . |
| 10 | From what I had heard in advance , I expected to see nothing much more than four or five students on the course drinking regulated amounts of alcohol and then being subjected to a variety of tests that would show how their motor skills deteriorated . |
| 11 | It was fairly clear that there was going to be some smuggling as well but , even allowing for the often-repeated story that other ships lay over the horizon and sent boats in to add to the stock on board the single ship , the net profits from the ship could hardly have been much more than twice those of the slave-trading . |
| 12 | I ca n't spend much more than ten minutes a day cleaning altogether ! |
| 13 | Right , well we 've only got erm not much more than ten minutes left erm , I 'm ri I 'm well we 've got to be we 've got to be early for lunch so you 'll need to go |
| 14 | ‘ You 're not likely to last much more than two minutes — certainly not two hours . ’ |
| 15 | I have n't brought much more than two hundred pence . ’ |
| 16 | But it deserves much more than 45 minutes . |
| 17 | And very very much more than one , that one of these would happen . |
| 18 | Only by realising that a painting is much more than one facet of a face , that it is a distillation of a multitude of images of a person , have recent audiences come to see its worth once more . |
| 19 | You can expect much more than £1,000 if you make such a beachcombing discovery . |
| 20 | When he reached the top , he stopped on the landing for a moment to allow his eyes to adjust ; there was illumination of a kind , coming down from a grimy skylight set into the angled ceiling , and it showed nothing much more than three old-fashioned doors and a bare wooden floor . |
| 21 | " It 's just that you do n't look much more than seventeen yourself . " |
| 22 | I do n't think they were anything much more than that . |
| 23 | I have never needed to watch Joan Crawford for much more than three hours . |
| 24 | He had hinted as much more than once , just vaguely , just enough to entice me so that I want to ask what , so that he knows that I want to ask . |
| 25 | the situation I would n't of thought I could of got away with anything much more than that |
| 26 | This year sales are unlikely to reach much more than one and a half million . |
| 27 | Kay O'Neill , who lives in the street , said her house was worth much more than one may think at first glance . |
| 28 | His personal situation is , then , appalling ; but the anniversary is as good an occasion as any to restate emphatically that this is about much more than one person 's predicament . |
| 29 | Erm we do n't feel you 've got to spend all that raffle prizes , erm because we do n't usually raise much more than sixty to seventy do we on the raffle ? |
| 30 | no , no , I , I can play much more than six notes of that , no |