Example sentences of "more [conj] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leader was perhaps doing no more than drawing on the enthusiasm detectable in each of the two components of the party for the idea of citizenship . |
| 2 | Lower interest rates in 1992 more than compensated for the effect of higher average debt levels . |
| 3 | So instead , I refined my masturbation in combination with my hawk-eyed recollection to produce a variety of sexual experience which — ( I now realise ) — more than compensated for the absence of the real thing . |
| 4 | The South Sussex team was also more than compensated by the rock solidarity of a boy called Paul Hedley at back , and the dazzling Sherwood brothers , Randolph and Merlin , who 'd pulled out of high goal polo for a fortnight to piss it up with the Pony Club . |
| 5 | According to Intel Japan president Bill Howe , Intel 's business in Japan has not been affected by the strong yen , and any bad effect from the recession is more than counteracted by the movement to the high-speed 80486 currently going on in Japan . |
| 6 | It is not to be doubted that there are still thousands of mainframe users that want nothing more than to continue with the kind of computing they have always known , using the environment with which they are familiar , and in which they have invested a large part of their lives . |
| 7 | Once again the situation of the Black community in Britain — people who have more than contributed to the building of this country — comes into question . |
| 8 | However , these were more than offset by the migration of 348,000 people to the area . |
| 9 | Nor have the costs been high ; at only 14 DM per square metre of street , they are not only absolutely low but are more than offset by the saving to society of the reduced accident level that results . |
| 10 | She was beset by the realization that she desired nothing more than to go to the Hall as Anne Mowbray 's companion . |
| 11 | Jebel Ali container volume has increased by over five times since 1988 and general cargo will be more than tripled by the end of 1991 , ’ he said . |
| 12 | In 1957 , costs were too uncertain and experience too limited in putting together so complex a weapon system for the Treasury to do more than impress on the Air Staff that the TSR 2 must be accommodated within the Air Ministry 's financial ceilings . |
| 13 | The psychological black hole which is Quisling 's superabundance of gravity is more than counterbalanced by the light thrown on the society which spawned him : a small country struggling in the economic and political tempests of the years between the wars . |
| 14 | By seeming to do little more than wait for the economy to get better by itself , President Bush condemned himself . |
| 15 | ‘ Roll your own ’ more than compensates for the lifelessness of other parts of the book . |
| 16 | No great number of people need have been directly engaged in ironmaking , for the Wealden industry was still in the 1520s no more than poised on the threshold of greatness , with only three blast furnaces in operation , and indeed the original one at Newbridge standing idle without a tenant . |
| 17 | It is a programme that holds out more than hope for the underclass . |
| 18 | I had always been keen on hillwalking and loved nothing more than escaping to the peace of the hills with my three oldest and closest friends . |
| 19 | Much of the time , I could do no more than lie on the wheelbarrow to hold it down . |
| 20 | Some of the visitors , however , would do more than stand on the harbourside to watch , they would put to sea with a crew for a night 's fishing . |
| 21 | It accelerated more than anticipated with the result that the capsule landed in the Atlantic over a hundred miles away from the target area . |
| 22 | We melted away again into the mists and learned to make our way back with unerring accuracy to places that were little more than pinpoints on the map . |
| 23 | And , with a horrified shudder , it occurred to Folly that if she stayed any longer in the corridor she might hear more than talking in the room beyond the door . |
| 24 | He was himself later to acknowledge the inadequacy of a production policy that drew so heavily on stage plays , particularly at a period before the arrival of sound when it was impossible , for example , to do more than allude to the savagery of Noël Coward 's attack on his social set in The Vortex ( 1927 ) . |
| 25 | You might find this hard to believe but I 'm the kind of person who likes nothing more than to potter about the house in a pair of jeans and a sweater and eat spaghetti Bolognese . |
| 26 | But Paying Your Way was not respectable , any more than Keeping To The Left . |
| 27 | Erm I think it it is beneficial mainly in the sense that erm if nothing more than running round the vehicle to make sure there are no marks and bangs and scratches on it which you 're going to inherit from the the previous run that it had er with a different driver perhaps . |
| 28 | Its universality as far as human life is concerned depends on when it actually happened , and we can do no more than guess at the date . |
| 29 | It is clear that the decision in Francovich does no more than usher in the doctrine of state liability for failure to legislate and that the full impact of the doctrine remains to be established . |
| 30 | He whimpered no more and lay on the concrete , silent . |