Example sentences of "[subord] [vb base] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did no more than raise an eyebrow . |
| 2 | Realising that it is far too late in her life to expect her to do more than make an effort to modify this trait in her character , you should see if you can direct it away from the home . |
| 3 | These fairly well made , attractive rugs possess an undoubted primitive charm ; but as they have yet to establish themselves in the Western market , one can do little more than make an educated guess as to their current prices and investment potential . |
| 4 | It was a very low-budget British picture , shot at Pinewood studios in black and white and sought to do little more than provide an entertaining hour and a half or so , with a topic to which a great many people could relate — National Service . |
| 5 | Nihilism , however patrician , and aestheticism , however gilded , jar today , so that rather than provide an essay on art for art 's sake , or a game on life succumbing to art , Prowse emphasises the morality tale , the Faustian parable , the meditation on degeneracy and corruption . |
| 6 | ‘ Except provide an ear . ’ |
| 7 | A field discovered following the controversial opening up of the Santa Maria basin off California could turn out to be the largest discovered since the Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska but the most stringent efforts will do no more than mitigate an inevitable production decline . |
| 8 | You may also find icons which do no more than invoke an error message because the associated program or file has been erased from the harddisk . |
| 9 | Although this programme can not do more than offer an introduction to the mastery of the skills needed by instructors , it is nevertheless of considerable importance in that it is a measured and significant attempt to provide the sort of training upon which the success of YOP and , even more important its successor , the Youth Training Scheme , will depend . |
| 10 | Indeed he would be doing so if he did no more than move an item from one place on a shelf to another . |
| 11 | Such an equivalence suggests , perhaps wrongly , that most candidates in comprehensive schools will be expected to do no better than score an F or a G in their GCSE . |
| 12 | Of course it is easier to design a new business , as Michael Dell did , than redesign an existing one . |
| 13 | Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ ‘ incubated ’ unnoticed and in documenting this fact we can do no better than quote an epidemiologist ( Hughes 1977 ) working within a similar heroin outbreak in Chicago during the early 1960s : ‘ In this epidemic there was a tragic time lag between the contagious stage during which heroin use spread and the stage when the epidemic 's full impact was felt and reacted to by the host community . ’ |
| 14 | Although just what she had done with all her unencumbered time since he 'd moved the rest of them to Almsmead , other than take an excessive interest in the mill-school he 'd had to build to keep on the right side of that damned , interfering Factory Act , he was uncertain . |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Harbinger 's got better things to do than help an old cripple around . |
| 16 | AI programs are primarily symbolic processes that do more than follow an algorithm , as in traditional ( procedural ) computing . |
| 17 | said that if the defendants were doing no more than perform an obligation already cast upon them by law there was no consideration for the plaintiffs agreement not to sue . |
| 18 | Most patients ( 718/769 ) would have preferred to use postcoital contraception than experience an unplanned pregnancy . |
| 19 | He took some time because he jacked up the chair on books to make good the missing leg , rather than have an unsuspecting colleague collapse . |
| 20 | The new series ( title yet unknown ) will enable members to comment reflectively on their work as well as give an account of its various outcomes . |
| 21 | For example , they call on the widows of policemen to check that the RUC Welfare Branch has visited , as well as trying themselves in more informal ways to help the grieving process , check that pensioners who are alone are safe , as well as take an interest in the youngsters new to children 's homes . |