Example sentences of "[to-vb] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century . |
| 2 | But Gide 's account especially does suggest how the vision of desire as loss is strangely inseparable from both the blindness of desire and its capacity to know more than it wants . |
| 3 | Do we need to know more than that ? ’ |
| 4 | They want to be taught earlier , preferably at 11 , and they want to know more than just how babies are made . |
| 5 | make sense of written material we need to know more than simply the ‘ linguistic ’ characteristic of the text : in addition to these characteristics we need to recognise that any writing system is deeply embedded in attitudinal , cultural , economic and technological constraints … reading and writing are therefore also sociolinguistic activities . |
| 6 | We need to know more than what they mean to know whether they are true . |
| 7 | Always be willing to ask questions of the material and demand to know more than the text is willing to divulge about people , places and events . |
| 8 | The Ambassador gave a diagonal nod of the head , as if it were slightly impertinent to know more than he did about local matters . |
| 9 | Since a progressive tax means that the rich pay more , not only in an absolute sense , but as a proportion of their total income , we need to know more than that the marginal rate of tax rises with income . |
| 10 | The bureaucrat is assumed as a general rule to know more than the sponsor about factor costs and production processes involved in the bureau 's services . |
| 11 | Miss Rose was n't lying , so Mrs Maybury had to know more than she 'd told them . |
| 12 | You do n't like me to know more than you . |
| 13 | Efforts to chart continuities in maladjustment almost invariably fail to find more than a small relationship between early attachment or infant behaviour and later emotional or behavioural adjustment , and although very early relationships and behaviour are seen to be very important , most researchers aiming to demonstrate this fact end by concluding that discontinuity rather than continuity is the rule ( e.g. Lewis et al. , 1984 ; Fischer et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 14 | Children appear to benefit more than adults from the increased opportunities for interaction and recreation , a conclusion confirmed by Eubank-Ahrens ' research in German Woonerven . |
| 15 | Some of his well-wishers have pointed out that it is difficult to use relations as general as these to provide more than schematic explanations , and have attempted to define them more precisely . |
| 16 | This underscores the need for it to provide more than musical training for its members . |
| 17 | In just the same way , the Lord 's prayer trusts that God will provide our daily bread ; He is n't asked to provide more than the basics . |
| 18 | Although this research is expected , and intended , to have practical educational relevance , it is hoped to provide more than a descriptive analysis of classroom practice . |
| 19 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |
| 20 | Clearly the same did not occur in the UK ; the increased propensity to offend more than counterbalanced the decline in the high-offender groups in the population ( Liddelow 1990 ) . |
| 21 | Even with Sackville 's favour Bowyer failed to secure more than the reversion in 1597 to the clerkship of the parliaments , the successful candidate averring that he was unfit ‘ by reason of a great imperfection he hath in his speech ’ . |
| 22 | His land is crossed by the most popular route up Ben More and so this farmer does tend to suffer more than usual from disruptive behaviour from dogs . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't want you to suffer more than I do , Heathcliff . |
| 24 | Quiss was the more easily riled , so he tended to suffer more than his fair share of the bird 's abuse . |
| 25 | Boys also seem to suffer more than girls when family discord and family disruption occur . |
| 26 | He wanted it to work more than any of us . ’ |
| 27 | Theories must be allowed to contain more than experience can pronounce upon . |
| 28 | In fact , it is possible to obtain more than enough protein to meet requirements without using animal sources at all . |
| 29 | In the area of booking contracts a form of damages has developed which may enable the guest to obtain more than the value of the contract . |
| 30 | It is always almost impossible for a single practitioner to obtain more than the other firms in the area are obtaining and you do not want to be in a position of being undersold because your colleagues in other firms have an unrealistic view about what should be charged . |