Example sentences of "is much [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schmeichel is much more than a shot-stopper . |
| 2 | ‘ Highlander is much more than a place or an institution . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Doubt now is much more than a matter of uncertainty . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Fumaroli 's book is much more than a polemic against the artistic policies of one government . |
| 8 | Our system is much more than a word processor . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | A dojo is much more than a place where a karateka ( one who practises karate ) trains . |
| 11 | His proposed implementation of VAT on the published word is much more than a tax on learning . |
| 12 | Secondly , Foucault argues that the panopticon is much more than a building . |
| 13 | As Hadrian 's villa is much more than a villa , so Diocletian 's palace is more like a town and is also designed as a fortress . |
| 14 | What we have now is much more than a game : an exciting story to which we do not know the end ; and a visual image which will lead us to an exciting starting point for a drama , an image which we know has engaged the children . |
| 15 | But the Church is much more than a place of worship . |
| 16 | Crime is much more than a statistic to Rosemary Hunt . |
| 17 | This work with great and powerful climaxes in first and last movements ; with a scherzo as light as thistledown , a truly poetic slow movement and tremendous pageantry in the finale is much more than a series of vignettes of a great city . |