Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] more 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The thirty-four acre farm is expected to fetch more than a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The trial is expected to last more than a month . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In cases like this , one can not run the risk of having one side of the kite sail stretch more than the other . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | He did n't like to spend more than a week at it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | since last March in the number of patients having to wait more than a year ? |
| 18 | Newcastle North MP Doug Henderson has written to city health chiefs , highlighting cases in which people are having to wait more than a year . |
| 19 | EYE patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He could n't have had more than a couple of hours ' sleep . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | According to Mikoian himself , the USSR insisted that the Cubans buy Soviet goods if they wanted Moscow to continue purchasing their sugar , and adamantly refused to pay more than the world market price for Cuban produce ( Mikoian in Cuba ( Crosscurrents press , New York , 1960 ) , in Boughton : 1974 , p. 450 ) . |
| 28 | Nigel Kennedy 's been known to spend more than an hour in the shop after a game , on one visit he spent four hundred pounds . |
| 29 | Starting to feel more than a fraction disgruntled that he 'd been in Prague when she 'd called before — on the right day and the right time — Fabia strove hard to keep what she was feeling out of her look . |
| 30 | 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 . |