Example sentences of "able [verb] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her season began unpromisingly with an attack of shingles which kept her out of action for a couple of weeks but she recovered quickly and so completely that in addition to compiling her formidable record on the golf course , she was able to cope more than adequately with her school exams . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century . |
| 4 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 5 | We need to be able to perceive more than the five emotions above , and it is easy enough to do so . |
| 6 | But airlines were unlikely to be able to finance more than half the aircraft they ordered through their balance sheets on an outright ownership basis . |
| 7 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll have to lock up the pages before seven , and I doubt Mike will be able to do more than meet the deadline . |
| 9 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |
| 10 | The absence of any prospect of being able to do more than survive on the finances available to them can be deeply depressing . |
| 11 | His premiership appeared not so much to be running out as running down , Few believed that when he came back in the autumn he would be able to do more than coast gently and desultorily along for another six months . |
| 12 | No Government could have done more against crime than we have , and no future Government would be able to do more than we will . |
| 13 | ‘ A number of people asked us if we could save the ponds and we thought we might be able to do more than that . |
| 14 | I have not been able to do more than suggest the rough outline of this approach . |
| 15 | However , as the laying-out and preparation of the body was at that time the responsibility of the family , it would appear that the guild limited themselves to three actions : the marshalling of their members to attend , and the selection from that company of those to carry the coffin ( though it would have been a strong guild able to command more than half a dozen of its members during a weekday ) ; to see the coffin safely into the church and to ensure that the burial equipment was in place ; and to attend the full obsequies on the following day , including the funeral feast . |
| 16 | Women tend to be able to laugh more than men — perhaps they have to ’ . |
| 17 | Alexander 's disappointment was indescribable ; he now thought that he would never again be able to have more than temporary relief . |
| 18 | While FDR had avoided definite recognition of Russian control of much of Eastern Europe , he had not been able to get more than general promises of free elections and independent governments for Soviet-dominated areas . |
| 19 | No other man had ever been able to arouse more than a tingle of interest in her . |
| 20 | He had been able to charm more than a few elderly ladies in his time . |
| 21 | As soon as a society is able to produce more than the bare minimum needed for survival , it is possible for classes to emerge . |
| 22 | We are certain that you will be aware of how some people are able to achieve more than others , cram so much more into a working day , and do it with seemingly little effort . |
| 23 | The Tate is primarily concerned with collecting contemporary art but it is never able to show more than from 23 to 25 per cent . |