Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] more than [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can do no more than endorse the statement made by the proposer and would just like to formally second the proposal resolution number two . |
| 2 | However , they can do no more than recommend the best of the available options and even in expert hands the treatment of anorexia nervous must still be considered unsatisfactory . |
| 3 | You will realise that words of comfort like this can solve no problems for her ; they can do no more than bathe the wound she has sustained , but she will be badly in need of something to cling on to and because they are spoken by someone who loves her they may be exactly what she wants to hear when she is trying to reassemble herself and face the future . |
| 4 | Logical processing can do no more than service the perceptions we start out with . |
| 5 | The enthusiasm of the sixties ( it was not just naivety ) would have held that education should lead the whole process , while the cynicism of the seventies and eighties would have us believe that education , that is schools at any rate , can do no more than mirror the society of which they are part . |
| 6 | On television that evening Mobutu said that the conference could do no more than write the new constitution , and could not adopt it . |
| 7 | Did it do no more than keep a subsistence economy running ? |
| 8 | Fraud by itself may do no more than make the contract voidable . |
| 9 | In the short time available to her on 16th October Hilary could do no more than give a very sketchy account of her visit but enough to whet our appetites for more . |
| 10 | The evolution of mammals after the Cretaceous was both extremely rapid and very complex , and we can do no more than give the roughest sketch here . |
| 11 | Even so the president could do no more than test the reaction of the ambassador to some of the advice and conclusions of his own government machine . |
| 12 | But I will do no more than offer a few remarks about their rights and wrongs , focusing instead on the most productive ways in which teachers can develop and promote their own positions . |
| 13 | Louis VII , having given Henry what he wanted , could do no more than bewail the fate of his friends . |
| 14 | No longer need a search for set words be made ; it was now a matter of seeking words , or even deeds , which need do no more than satisfy the minimal essential principles of the law of trusts . |
| 15 | Next April 's meeting need do no more than put a tick alongside South Africa 's name and we can all start booking our tickets for the 1995 thrash . |
| 16 | There is one area in which costing systems can do no more than provide the raw data , and that is in the treatment of overruns , variations and claims , which can often only be quantified by a detailed interpretation of the data recorded in the system . |
| 17 | Educators and trainers can do no more than provide the conditions , the content and the materials . |
| 18 | Legislation can do no more than place the matter in its correct perspective . |
| 19 | The former can do no more than skim the surface of an area which has recently been very heavily mined ; the latter is included because I think that this theory , though recent , is more than a passing fashion and contains some insights into the nature of knowledge . |
| 20 | A field discovered following the controversial opening up of the Santa Maria basin off California could turn out to be the largest discovered since the Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska but the most stringent efforts will do no more than mitigate an inevitable production decline . |