Example sentences of "[vb infin] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , he died indoors , worrying that he would enjoy more than his fair share of sunshine if he went out . ’ |
| 2 | Said Greg : ‘ There is no-one I would rather row with and there is no-one I would trust more than Jonny . |
| 3 | I also think , on er sort of workers ' rights , I mean if you know the person that 's made it , like a local butcher , I would trust more to make I would trust more than . |
| 4 | I can trust more than I can some of the others , some of the mistakes you get |
| 5 | Though yeah they wo n't trust more than the once . |
| 6 | Besides , who can you trust more than your very own brother ? ’ |
| 7 | To be happy and settled in a winning province is therefore very important to the top players and for once this may count more than attractive job offers and other benefits . |
| 8 | I 'm very much cap-in-hand when people come — they may know more than I do . |
| 9 | He hopes to show that , although we can not know quite what the former say we can , nevertheless we can still know more than the latter allow . |
| 10 | They may know more than they realize , for it may be only on the occasion of a question that they see or realize applications and utilities of writings with which they are perfectly familiar . |
| 11 | ‘ You must know more than that , ’ she said scornfully . |
| 12 | ‘ Maybe you do know more than I 'm giving you credit for , Cardiff , ’ said Rohmer . |
| 13 | Robert Urquhart did know more than he pretended , Blanche was convinced , but she was not convinced about the thoroughness of his investigation into Mills ' murder . |
| 14 | Then she will know more than she did as she went up the stairs , my little English mouse . |
| 15 | By this time there was very little he did not know about being a prince ; and long before he came to it he would know more than most men born to it about being a king . |
| 16 | Do we not know more than we ever did about crowds , power , group behaviour , motivation , national and religious hysteria and so forth ? |
| 17 | ‘ Well I 'm sorry to burden you with it , I thought you might know more than … |
| 18 | ‘ He must know more than that , ’ protested Owen . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't say I 'm unaware of rumours and difficulties , ’ he continued , ‘ but I do n't know more than that . ’ |
| 20 | But of course the writer 's assumptions may be mistaken : the reader may know more or less than has been assumed , in which case the negotiation will falter . |
| 21 | When we go home we will know more and we will certainly talk more about it but I do know that our development programme is underway . |
| 22 | The ‘ assumptions ’ of the topmost box can include more than experience puts there , but whatever finds its way in has to be transformed by deduction into predictions which can be tested by observation . |
| 23 | Tell me we can still win more than we lose . ’ |
| 24 | There are many ways of saving for an event like a wedding that will make sure that you can buy more than just the confetti . |
| 25 | Those who would buy more than unc logically opt for the two-part tariff and thereby the right to buy extra units at |
| 26 | 3 Do you buy more or less of the following than you did a year ago ? |
| 27 | I was aware that in some circles there was a market for less innocuous pleasures , for there was a great deal of poverty that winter , and the occupying armies , with their apparently endless supplies of food and tobacco and warm clothes , could buy more or less whatever they wanted . |
| 28 | Average sales values for both hardware and software may also be different from the figures we have chosen and people may buy more or fewer discs for their players . |
| 29 | The CFTC will have the right , with the acquiesence of the Government , to intervene in business conducted under a regulatory regime which any reasonable person would consider more than adequate . |
| 30 | Only rarely do plans consider more than the simple spatial attributes of the housing stock . |