Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] than [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly the same did not occur in the UK ; the increased propensity to offend more than counterbalanced the decline in the high-offender groups in the population ( Liddelow 1990 ) . |
| 2 | Better , he felt , to appear over-talkative than give the impression of a man of mystery . |
| 3 | How many people at breakfast time bother to do more than turn the set on , knowing that both channels are transmitting roughly similar programmes ? |
| 4 | Occasionally , very occasionally , a lone knight in armour rode into Ridgery Butts from the east and plunged straight down one of the forest paths without pausing to do more than pass the time of day at the Inn and drink ale . |
| 5 | As the process of learning is hidden , it is not accessible to direct influence ; however , it is possible for the teacher to do more than tell the student what she needs to learn . |
| 6 | In the course of one short chapter it is not possible , nor indeed necessary , to do more than suggest the richness of the material which , with a little study , can be interpreted to throw light on former ages . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll have to lock up the pages before seven , and I doubt Mike will be able to do more than meet the deadline . |
| 8 | Phrases of this sort are so familiar that it is not hard to understand a disposition which constantly interferes with attempts to understand syntactic structures , namely a tendency to regard them as transparently clear , with no need for a linguist to do more than record the existence of the surface construction . |
| 9 | They slept then , tucked up around one another , waking several times during the night , but rarely for long enough to do more than acknowledge the other 's presence . |
| 10 | Congestion metering only ‘ trips in ’ when vehicles are physically unable to act other than following the behaviour of the queue itself . |