Example sentences of "[verb] [det] more than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For groups in this position the right to take part in politics represents little more than the right to whistle in the wind . |
| 2 | However , it cost little more than the price of the land — a real bargain , ’ she parodied in a bitter little voice . |
| 3 | It may be true that the story of the English people is best seen in English literature , but English literature contains much more than the story of the English people . |
| 4 | A sensible aid policy — not just for Russia and Eastern Europe , but for the third world in general — calls for careful priorities , realistic goals and , above all , an understanding that the quality of aid matters much more than the quantity . |
| 5 | interested in English nobody , sh did n't know any more than the girl next door did she ? |
| 6 | Secondly the archive base became much more than the database ( or rather its constituent tables ) . |
| 7 | It is important to begin by recognizing that assessment is a process which involves much more than the collection of information and data . |
| 8 | Aerial photographs reveal little more than the site 's main features , and plotting scatters of surface finds only gives a reasonable guide to its centre , with little information about its extent or shape . |
| 9 | There is a range of topics requiring little more than the ability to recognise and identify the prey being attacked . |
| 10 | It was surprising that an industry generating so many millions of pounds was prepared to use little more than the manager 's sexual tastes as its yardstick of talent . |
| 11 | In a much governed kingdom like England royal administration included control over the sheriff and other local officers ; in some kingdoms it included little more than the issuing of charters and the collecting of somewhat meagre taxes . |
| 12 | They reached mass audiences , whom their ‘ messages ’ frequently interested much more than the news or the programmes that the advertisements indirectly helped pay for . |
| 13 | But the western railway dreams encompassed much more than the settling of immigrants or the taming of native peoples ( throughout the world railways were credited with this ‘ pacificatory ’ role ) . |
| 14 | Regalism can best be defined as Erastianism and it represented little more than the modernization and systematization of the traditional claim of the crown to control what it considered the temporal aspects of church government . |
| 15 | Ramsey was unusual in that to him the priest 's ordination meant much more than the deacon 's ordination . |
| 16 | When the Queen takes her place in the Church of Christ the Cornerstone tomorrow , it will mean much more than the dedication of another place of worship . |
| 17 | Italy 's involvement in the Spanish Civil War , in emulation of Germany , had cost much more than the government had intended , and by 1939 Mussolini must have known that the Army and Air Force were not anything like as strong as he had imagined they were , even if he did not know the extent of their weakness . |
| 18 | They were a family living in Rome for better or for worse , that would n't change any more than the world would change . |
| 19 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 20 | This indicates little more than the lack of influence exerted by BASW and the SCA , but the real indictment of the profession is that the principles of social work and management have not been integrated . |
| 21 | We asked environment groups from all twelve EC member states at the annual meeting of the European Environmental Bureau held in Brussels , to remind EC governments that ‘ subsidiarity ’ means much more than the balance of power between them and the European Commission . |
| 22 | If trains on a branch line are cut then the railways may lose much more than the income from fares on the branch . |
| 23 | So I says to Pete , right , start as we mean to go on , I refuse to pay any more than the cleanup rate . |
| 24 | Lengthier ones such as those in support of specific discovery are not suited and the standard part becomes little more than the top and tail . |
| 25 | No issue has confirmed this more than the environment , where public as well as legislative pressure has helped produce a surge in environmental programmes across industries , particularly in the US . |
| 26 | Nothing exemplified this more than the campaign for public economy which shook the government in 1921 . |
| 27 | In developed countries , the birth rate fluctuates much more than the death rate ( due to social and economic changes ) and is the major cause of difficulty in population projection . |
| 28 | In such circumstances education becomes much more than the dead-end routine it so often seems in the industrialized world . |
| 29 | However , insurrection and revolution , whether by peasants or others , explain little more than the timing of some cases of serf emancipation , and nothing about the abolition of slavery . |
| 30 | For socialists of this persuasion , their model society has required little more than the superimposition of a substantial state sector on to societies characterized by markets , private ownership and liberal democracy . |