Example sentences of "[adv] more than [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dominance of orthodox economic policies , cautious pragmatism and consensus politics reflected the mood of the British electorate in the 1920s rather more than did the utopian assumptions of the Die-hard remnant . |
| 2 | To the extent that functioning markets have emerged — notably in the car parks of every big city — they do little more than recycle the small supply of consumer goods . |
| 3 | The general principles just outlined apply in sale of goods , for although there are sections of the Sale of Goods Act governing the assessment of damages , those sections do little more than embody the general principles . |
| 4 | It sounds as if we are doing little more than making the best of a bad job . |
| 5 | Mr Franco had been branded as a distracted caretaker , doing little more than warming the presidential chair he inherited last October , when Fernando Collor was ousted in disgrace . |
| 6 | Museums which take this grant , while doing little more than offer the occasional public lecture , or some minimal help to schoolteachers who arrive with their pupils , risk having such financial support severely cut back , or even withdrawn . |