Example sentences of "[vb infin] [det] [subord] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Do you live far from a good shopping area so that you will need more than the average amount of food storage space and a large deep freeze ?
2 Which towns will need more than the average number of ( i ) schools and ( ii ) hospitals and nursing homes ?
3 Did they do that when the first biopsy report through ?
4 ( 4 ) If a party wants a definitive ruling from the Panel executive , it will usually only give this if the other party to the takeover has been consulted ( which itself is often conducted by telephone ) .
5 He can do this whether the interim payment was voluntary or under Order .
6 We can do this because the private universe that we inhabit for much of the time is characterised by a philosophy of personal freedom and private choice .
7 The reverse happens when flying southerly headings and the compass will show more than the actual amount of the turn , so carry on past your actual heading .
8 Shirts that left Comme des Garçons with a one-hundred-pound price tag will be knocked down for a bargain price ; and a man 's shirt that looks good on a woman will cost more than the men-only variety .
9 The only constraint on attempts to acquire a larger budget is that it would cost more than the total value to the politicians of the service , the value of additional output being zero .
10 This meant that nearly all packs would contain more than the declared weight .
11 The British Rail scheme would certainly cost less than the old plan as it now proposed a single-track tunnel , not a twin tunnel .
12 Just one of the regions , Northern Ireland , with eight constituency members and an assumed equal number of list members , would have fewer than the minimum total of 20 required to ensure fair representation therein for a party securing 5% of the list votes .
13 My Lords , it 's a question of cost in the long run , but er the reason that the our British Library will have fewer than the French Library is originally it was planned to have three thousand places , but er further er examination which has really been taken undertaken very , very thoroughly has proved that this is really not necessary .
14 Although this Arrowana is relatively cheap when young , I would not recommend more than the single specimen in an aquarium of this size .
15 Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner .
16 Fullback Jim Staples received a helping hand , but it will take more than the magic sponge to get the Irish side back on its feet .
17 I still ca n't call more than the initial letter to mind . ’
18 Q Can I pay more than the monthly instalment ?
19 In the Borders , Peter Jeary , director of finance , said that more than half the 47,000 households on the council tax register would pay less than the regional community charge bills of £312 in 1992-93 .
20 unc These are equivalent , but the rule does not prove this because the left hand program is finite but is not weaker than any finite syntactic approximation to the right hand program .
21 As a result , the individual may retain only a very small percentage of the extra income earned and , in some cases , may actually lose more than the extra income earned .
22 And what is true for you would be true for every other supplier : they too will supply more than the natural level if the price on their island is above what they expected the average price to be , and less if it is below .
23 Similar to ( age-related ) personal allowance , the married couple 's age-related increases are subject to a couple 's income so it is possible that they might get less than the full addition — or maybe nothing extra at all .
24 13.2.2.3 the giving of such consent shall not involve more than the minimum delay which is necessary to protect commercial interests .
25 Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared ; for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer .
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