Example sentences of "[det] more [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is this more than a mere technical exercise ? |
| 2 | She felt — it was much more than a memory-Toss Barnet 's strong hand holding hers , his lips on her cheek . |
| 3 | This was recognised as requiring much more than a technical management process . |
| 4 | But not much more than a vague impression of the early impact of the service is provided by these figures , for without an extensive number of regional studies , it is difficult to estimate either the local variations in the success rate or the extent to which different areas established SCC systems alongside the employment bureaux . |
| 5 | If his mother 's ambition for him was not discouraged by any of the family , neither had it occasioned much more than a passing interest . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As the music powered into focus , it suddenly seemed much more than a mere backdrop for Morrissey 's lyrical diatribes . |
| 8 | Changes in content and style — ‘ news ’ was now moved to the front pages , there were briefer stories , news stories grew in importance as ‘ opinion and commentary ’ lost favour , different typographical styles were used to attract readers and make newspapers less severe — reflected much more than a mere process of ‘ modernization ’ . |
| 9 | Over and over again , Tchaikovsky makes his pieces something much more than a mere salon diversion by forming his tunes out of small , constantly changing and evolving melodic cells . |
| 10 | For Hickey , however , the memoirs were evidently much more than a mere record of past events . |
| 11 | But accompaniment is often much more than a mere ‘ filling-out ’ . |
| 12 | But most killers are not homicidal maniacs and the victim contributes much more than a mere coincidence of time and place to his own fate . |
| 13 | In fact the grouping was never much more than a rough guide . |
| 14 | But it was so very much more than a great show . |
| 15 | That quarry , it should be said , is not much more than a small hole in the ground with banking around it . |
| 16 | One Sunday night at the Wood Green Odeon a group of youths and girls were making so much more than a tolerable racket that I eventually asked them to quieten down . |
| 17 | As we watched the train 's shadows turn and fold on the snowy shore , it became clear that she had not forgotten the stories which made this much more than a stark inland sea stretching as far as the eye can follow . |
| 18 | For more manipulative members of the older generation , a will is much more than a simple legal document — it is a voice from beyond the grave , rewarding good children with the best spoons , and cutting the naughty ones off with a shilling |
| 19 | All that emerges from it is the sheer nastiness of a group of homosexual writers for whom the working classes were not much more than a floating brothel . |
| 20 | A concours Mk 1 will fetch much more than a ropy Mk 2 , perhaps six years ( and maybe 100,000 miles ) its junior . |
| 21 | Margery is the most carefully , cleverly and unexpectedly constructed character in Dame Sirith : not much more than a dumb blonde , admittedly , but a character through which the author revels in presenting to his readers or audience a detailed comic portrayal of how a dumb blonde can act . |
| 22 | To date this explosion has n't been that much more than a damp November 5th squib , although it has undoubtedly increased the awareness of the business community that there is rather more to making a presentation than a hand-written flipchart . |
| 23 | He was n't much more than a big puppy and an out-and-out mongrel . |
| 24 | Much more than a military commander , Pompey appointed kings and created new Roman provinces . |
| 25 | This is really not much more than a local plan for land use over a larger area , so there is now no strategic mechanism for the City of Tyneside . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Forester had delivered the certificate and the other papers by hand to the country police station ; it was n't much more than a converted garage alongside the local man 's house , and it had n't been difficult to pick a time when it had been unattended . |
| 28 | Rulfo 's oral style — which manifests itself in this novel and in the stories of The Burning Plain , in the frequent repetition of words and phrases , in a manner typical of the backtracking of oral narrative — is , of course , much more than a formal device , for its function is to take us inside the world of a rural peasantry whose cultural tradition is non-literate . |
| 29 | Bricks and mortar used to much more than a sound investment — it was the best way to make serious money . |
| 30 | This is the point of view of one novice who discovered that diving offers much more than a free lunch , but should never be taken without tissues . |