Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [det] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | The example of an infant 's fear of strangers shows , as we move from the detailed anatomy of behaviour to the rich , ambiguous concepts we use to make sense of everyday social intercourse , that the particular acts referred to matter less than the way they are organised , just as our interest in houses , rarely focuses on mud or wood or bricks . |
| 3 | Given his many commitments and the preparations for the new play , his second , The Family Reunion , on which he probably worked harder than on any other — it was understandable that he could not consider sparing more than an evening away . |
| 4 | It has had more than a century and a half to prove its worth in the demanding environments of Queensland , New South Wales and even the hot , dry north west of Western Australia . |
| 5 | The thirty-four acre farm is expected to fetch more than a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 6 | It was particularly galling for the greens to see themselves overtaken by the extreme right National Front , which was being credited last night with 12.5 per cent of the vote but was not expected to win more than a couple of seats . |
| 7 | The trial is expected to last more than a month . |
| 8 | So it 's not a progression all in one way but I have to say that even by the standards of the Lloyd George era , the battle by memoir which we now see for considerable sums of money has become more than a cottage industry , it 's a production line industry . |
| 9 | In most cases a man earning £300 per week would be expected to spend more than the man earning £100 per week , and so the transactions demand should be larger for the former . |
| 10 | With Puffed Wheat an ounce would actually overflow in many bowls , so people tend to serve less than an ounce . |
| 11 | Which came mercifully swiftly , in the shape of another devastatingly accurate straight left , and then a perfect right uppercut which hardly seemed to travel more than a foot , but which was delivered with such a force that it lifted Mike up on to his toes , before toppling him backwards in a heap at his elder brothers ' feet . |
| 12 | In cases like this , one can not run the risk of having one side of the kite sail stretch more than the other . |
| 13 | I 'm going to bring in some illuminated medieval books for you to have a look at , because what you 're going to do is to write this out in best on special paper using illuminated letters and if you 're very good we will try to get them laminated so that we can keep them as an example of what year seven students can produce as their best work , to say to everybody , hey look at this , this is very good , now we ca n't do that if I give you a sheet of A four paper and you manage to fill less than a quarter of that space , so you 're going to need a minimum of ten different things that you would like to say you think are important , you believe are important , you believe they 're valuable and your homework over the next week is to finish that list if you want it to rhyme , well yes you can work on it to make it rhyme , if you want to have what we call rhyming couplet , er just one moment I have n't said clear away . |
| 14 | A Roger Rabbit-style cartoon , Evil Toons , released on video this month , promotes itself like this : ‘ Innocently the four girls unleash a nymphomaniacal cartoon monster from the pages of a spell-book which intends to scare more than the girls ' pants off . ’ |
| 15 | He did n't like to spend more than a week at it . |
| 16 | His band of defectors , called the Socialist Janata Dal , can not hope to win more than a handful of seats in the coming general election . |
| 17 | they constantly threatened to become more than a handful in every sense , so one sad Saturday he sold the sows with their litters at Taunton market — and since then has dealt with pigs only on paper . |
| 18 | In Britain they failed to convert more than a faction of the Labour party , which was outvoted the year after it won its victory at the party conference . |
| 19 | If so , the policy would be endorsed with endorsement HO2 — Under-Insurance Clause and in the event of under-insurance , i.e. where the the sum insured represents less than the value at risk , the settlement would be subject to average , and the Policyholder would be responsible for a rateable proportion of the loss . |
| 20 | So it , it is hard to say , erm and I would n't like to make a prediction except that I think the number of postgraduate students may have fallen more than the number of undergraduate students , and that we may see already even in this first year erm a substantial not altogether healthy change in the national makeup of overseas students . |
| 21 | since last March in the number of patients having to wait more than a year ? |
| 22 | Newcastle North MP Doug Henderson has written to city health chiefs , highlighting cases in which people are having to wait more than a year . |
| 23 | EYE patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
| 24 | MORE eye patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The marriage lasted only a few years , cut short by the death of Eliza ; when Robert returned to the same altar at St Leonard 's in January of 1837 as a widower , he must have had more than a flash of déjà vu . |
| 27 | He could n't have had more than a couple of hours ' sleep . |
| 28 | The ever-familiar profile seems to derive more than a smidgeon of alternative inspiration from Aria 's Magna-series , as in fact does the whole bass . |
| 29 | Although this represents a greater increase ( £7 ) than in the other categories , it seems only fair that two single adults should not have to pay more than a family . |
| 30 | For instance , a concert attracting 70,000 at Wembley would have to pay more than a gig at the sock and Warthog in the High street . |