Example sentences of "more [noun sg] [conj] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He was no respecter of persons or institutions or ideas just because they were vested with a brief authority , and nothing gave him more pleasure than to prick the bubble of pretension .
2 Clive James should have stayed with book-reviewing : his destruction of ‘ Princess Daisy ’ must be the funniest thing he ever wrote , even though he admits that ‘ to pour abuse on a book like this makes no more sense than to kick a powder-puff ’ .
3 ‘ Oh , we had a quarrel , but I have more sense than to seek a confrontation .
4 He wished he 'd had more sense than to get a lift with Mrs Wright .
5 In many instances , it is the skill of observation which will lead the practitioner to pursue particular lines of enquiry in more depth and to tailor the assessment process to the particular individual or carer .
6 The system has the option of calling into action an articulatory loop , a form of silent speech rehearsing which gives the system more time either to accept more information or to examine the message in greater detail .
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9 To understand this process in more detail and to prepare the way for showing how money supply expands or contracts , we must examine the particular types of deposit and loan ( of liability and asset ) .
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