Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As Winston Churchill put it : ‘ The French suffered more than the defence need suffer by their valiant and obstinate retention of particular positions .
2 A management which does not do this betrays more than the shareholders in the business ; it betrays the employees and the nation as a whole .
3 This meant more than the elimination of exploitation , which had already been achieved in the Stalinist period : it meant the elimination of the oppression of man by man , which could be achieved only by the working class itself and not by a bureaucracy on its behalf .
4 The need for sleep varies from person to person — some require more than the average eight hours sleep a night be perfectly normal .
5 I did n't intend this to take more than a minute .
6 Arguable the strongest-ever candidate for the title of the world 's least-successful Formula 1 car , the Life L190/1 with its radical W12 engine , has passed into the history books where it will be fortunate to make more than a footnote .
7 I find it hard to raise more than a flicker of interest about who killed whom and why .
8 I wish him well but realistically he is n't likely to get more than a couple here and there .
9 Whether or not we accept the particular characterization offered by opponent-process theory , it seems that conditioned suppression training is likely to involve more than the formation of a CS-shock association .
10 It was still about half a mile in to the town centre and , apart from Nails , they all lived more than a mile out the other side .
11 It all started more than a decade ago from this barn on an isolated farm in South Shropshire .
12 The evidence for such changes from past excavations is rarely satisfactory and is almost entirely based on the coins , which , in many cases , is far too slight to offer more than a hint .
13 Her children were both obviously too little to understand more than the tone of her voice , and as she dressed them to go out with her to the shops she was saying " and when Daddy comes home , we 'll show him , shall we ?
14 Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow .
15 Cash-paying customers , unable to see more than a backswing , chose to misunderstand the intention of the organisers , and flattened them .
16 Mr Barnes said that trading was ‘ holding up well ’ in Britain , particularly at the company 's new restaurants , but that the whole country would not be able to accommodate more than a total of 12 restaurants .
17 Biggs is of the opinion that Mason would be unlikely to survive more than a couple of rounds against the world heavyweight champion and at this stage it would be unwise to even think of him as a genuine contender .
18 I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too .
19 No other man had ever been able to arouse more than a tingle of interest in her .
20 Yet Stolypin proved unable to enact more than a fraction of the measures he proposed .
21 It is possible to withdraw more than the £50 daily limit , as long as you have sufficient funds , by going into any branch of The Royal Bank of Scotland .
22 It is not possible to withdraw more than the amount in the account so you avoid any risk of running up an overdraft .
23 4 patients had complete abolition of the bone component of the hypercalcaemia by day 5 and 1 had more than a 50% reduction on day 3 .
24 Given time available to train new staff it is not necessary to keep more than a nucleus in that particular expertise .
25 Part Two consists of an appraisal of each of the 17 counties — Durham are still too young to warrant more than a mention .
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