Example sentences of "not [verb] [adj] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not repeat this more than a couple of times in rapid succession however , because otherwise the dog may start to interpret this as a game . |
| 2 | The frequency is chosen to make sure that the core reaches saturation at each alteration , but does not spend any more than a short time in this condition so as to maximise the final output signal ; the circuit should produce as many saturation signals as possible . |
| 3 | I 'm not sure of the exact figures but we have not declared any more than the 700 that we 've er announced in the last 12 months . |
| 4 | To begin with they travel only at night and often they may not go much more than a mile . |
| 5 | This adds further interest in the picture , but you should be careful not to have any more than a corner of sky in the final print . |
| 6 | interested in English nobody , sh did n't know any more than the girl next door did she ? |
| 7 | Men and women work all day and at the end of the week those in waged work get a wage packet which does n't buy much more than the necessities of life . |
| 8 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 9 | " You 'll get a written report later , of course , but it wo n't have any more than the preliminary findings , because there does n't seem much to find . |
| 10 | They were a family living in Rome for better or for worse , that would n't change any more than the world would change . |
| 11 | He could n't afford much more than a set of plastic rings let alone five gold ones . |