Example sentences of "more than [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Hill , the party 's unflappable director of communications , has more than adequately filled the role performed by Peter Mandelson in 1987 . |
| 2 | For it does more than simply put a face to the pictures . |
| 3 | However , in instances whereby an originating office makes a request for assistance that would result in more than simply providing a favour' then a fee is appropriate and its level should be determined directly between the two offices concerned . |
| 4 | Of course , there are times when a greater sense of control does more than simply enhance the driving experience . |
| 5 | This suggests that speakers do more than simply animate a persona now and again for narrative purposes : they actually switch " selves " from time to time , depending on " who " they want to be at a particular moment , relative to their interlocutor . |
| 6 | They may argue as a point of fact that , to carry on a taxable ‘ business ’ ( or ‘ economic activity ’ — the terminology in the EC 's Sixth Directive , Art 4(1) and ( 2 ) ) and so use the partial exemption rules , the person must do more than just sell a mere , say , £5 worth of food , drink , tobacco , matches , magazines , books , postcards , camera films , audio or video tapes , cassettes , compact discs , records , sunglasses or combs each year . |
| 7 | Operators also do more than just answer the phone . |
| 8 | More than just buying an operating system and securing a future for Novell , Noorda — a man held in high regard by a wide cross section of industry executives — takes on the expectations of all those seeing him as a Moses figure capable of stitching up the highly personalised wounds inflicted during the Unix wars and the aborted peace attempts . |
| 9 | Setting up a task involves more than just typing the job in a box and putting it onto your timescale . |
| 10 | Removing a Windows application involves more than just deleting the icon from the Program Manager . |
| 11 | You can do more than just watch a programme once , straight through . |
| 12 | We did more than just have a go when a golfing blue from Cambridge , whose other forte was history , joined the staff . |
| 13 | The pictures , on the other hand , must do more than just illustrate the story . |
| 14 | The link with Labour has got to be more than just signing a cheque . |
| 15 | But settling a potential employment dispute tends to involve rather more than just signing a letter prepared by the company or initialling a few sheets of paper which explain the agreed terms . |
| 16 | But cutting greenhouse emissions from transport will take more than just improving the efficiency of cars and trucks . |
| 17 | This is carried out in relatively modern mercury and diaphragm electrochemical cells and consumes huge amounts of electricity — more than enough to power the city of Liverpool . |
| 18 | Oblige , like force , evokes more than merely producing an effect and it too is followed by the to infinitive : ( 164 ) … servants , whom he had obliged to accompany him . |
| 19 | Once more , you want to aim with your research not just to acquire enough facts spread over your pages to give a feeling of the times , but to acquire so many that you have enough and to spare and can choose among your store for the one that does more than merely give a notion of the time you are writing about . |
| 20 | This both attenuates the force of the current occupationalist attack upon the liberal education tradition and suggests that occupationalist objectives will do little more than merely dilute the quality of the education which pupils might otherwise have received . |
| 21 | He has more than likely planned the expedition for the half of the day when it is not Northumberland Avenue 's turn for heating . |
| 22 | And what 's the point of spending money on them if , when it comes to the crunch , you have to act as a ‘ human filter ’ on daily call , lugging foam cartridges or whatever from your pump intake , dripping the sludge across the carpet and more than likely blocking the sink ? |