Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your eurocheque card is much more than just a support for your eurocheques . |
| 2 | But a generative phonologist would say that this phonemic representation is irrelevant ; the representation in the brain of the speaker or hearer is much more complex and is often quite different from the ‘ real ’ sounds recognisable in the sound wave . |
| 3 | ‘ Highlander is much more than a place or an institution . |
| 4 | Crime is much more than a statistic to Rosemary Hunt . |
| 5 | The ANLT is much more than just a parser , it is a development tool for the production of testing of grammars and morphological processors . |
| 6 | Having just returned from this delightful island where the people are so friendly and courteous and where the cost of living is much less than in the UK , I thought the following information could be helpful . |
| 7 | The variation in referral rates among general practice was much less than that reported in hospitals . |
| 8 | I wonder whether the cold is much of an anaesthetic . |
| 9 | To look up at the towering medieval universe is much more like looking at a great building . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | With Unix or open systems , where the hardware and software are often bought from several different suppliers , ‘ information technology management is much more complex ’ , according to Roger Pavitt , Price Waterhouse consultant . |
| 12 | This means that the number of dots per square inch are much smaller and the amount of processing required by the sending fax machine is much less . |
| 13 | And I am sure she knew that when the alternative to loneliness is boredom , which is frequently the case , loneliness is much to be preferred . |
| 14 | On the debit side , over the past 10 years output reduced by 35 million tonnes or 28 per cent. , but the parallel decrease in consumption is much less . |
| 15 | But it is evident that its influence was much more broad-ranging . |
| 16 | But Burn was much more than an uncommonly clever house planner . |
| 17 | Fokine 's advice to those wishing to create the romantic style of dance was much as fur demi-caractère when he said : ‘ The choreographer should base his design on classical technique from the feet to the waist , but above that the dancer 's head , body and arms must be free to express the moods , emotions and actions of the character in the story or theme to be communicated . ’ |
| 18 | The second half was much of the same with neither side being able to carve out clear cut chances . |
| 19 | The 2nd half was much of the same with Leeds having even more of the play but creating even less chances ( or so it seemed ) . |
| 20 | Share My Lettuce was much more of a commercial success than it was a critical triumph . |
| 21 | Today the focus is much more on high added value packaging . |
| 22 | This refusal is much more of a " classic " polite refusal : it is not immediate ( being offset instead by laughter , which also marks it as " non-serious " ) and is immediately followed by an excuse ( " I 'm gon na take Natasha over the park " ) , which could also be seen as a bid to be treated as doing something equivalently onerous : looking after a child instead of washing up . |
| 23 | Highgrove is much more than the house which the Prince Of Wales has made his country home . |
| 24 | The move is much more towards learning by and from personal experience , not just in nursing , but from everyday life , from contact with others and from previous employment , anything which adds an extra dimension to the way we perceive problems and set about dealing with them . |
| 25 | It is possible to consider that the evolutionary process is much to blame . |
| 26 | With goals that are complex , conflicting , vague and set at least partially by external agencies , the planning process is much more of a political act than in private corporations ( e.g. Grieve Smith 1981 ; Smith Ring and Perry 1985 ) . |
| 27 | In most stepping motor systems the winding time constant is much less than the period of rotor oscillations about each equilibrium position . |
| 28 | In addition , public transport is much more subject to direct government policy and to the influence of political decisions . |
| 29 | On the other hand , there are ways in which such a picture is much less than wholly reassuring . |
| 30 | We will provide some evidence , from our ethnographic work , to show that the complete picture is much more complex , and highly fluid . |