Example sentences of "[verb] more [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both in Britain and in the US , cable feeds usually supply more programmes than are locally available via radio waves . |
| 2 | No man , even such a strong and determined minister as Duncan Sandys , can force Whitehall to accept more change than it collectively sees as reasonable . |
| 3 | In datasets from different countries men consistently report more partners than women , and the British data show smaller differences than many others ( T W Smith , paper presented to American Sociological Association , Cincinnati , 1991 ) . |
| 4 | Mill 's fears led him eventually to favour proposals to give the educated more votes than the mass of the people . |
| 5 | The major conclusions are therefore that the market economy is a remarkably efficient way of creating wealth largely because it succeeds in utilising more information than alternative economic systems ; that for a market economy to work , the society of which it is part needs to believe in certain kinds of values : it must lay great store by individual responsibility and also have a non-egalitarian view of what constitutes social justice ; that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , typified by Freudianism and Marxism , which are contrary to those needed for the market economy to prosper , that humanism as a philosophy can not guarantee to generate the appropriate values , and that Christianity can provide such values and has indeed done so during the period of industrialisation throughout much of the Western world , but in consequence the kind of market economy which is then championed is different from that currently defined by the libertarian philosophy of Professor Friedman and Professor Hayek . |
| 6 | Even here , if the defendant has ( for example ) used more force than was reasonably necessary , he can ( if appropriately charged ) be convicted of the offence of simple assault . |
| 7 | But this teams needs more continuity than up to now and it can still do a lot better . |
| 8 | Equally the nature of the various styles , high , middle and low , needs more elucidation than it gets in this book ( cf. pp. 70 – 71 ) if it is to form a central plank of the discussion of lexis . |
| 9 | Johnson and Douglas ( 1978 : 151 ) point out that the Equity Funding scandal , ‘ perhaps one of the largest securities and investment frauds ever perpetuated on the American public , … involved more losses than the total losses of all street crime in the US for one year ’ . |
| 10 | I 'm glad I 'm glad he said that cos I 'm having a bit of a problem on flights for the summer we want more capacity than |
| 11 | You must have spilt more juice than I wiped up . |
| 12 | A roster for crusts had to be started as these contained more bread than the average thin slice . |
| 13 | Total £700 £150 and from this you can see that motherboard upgrade is a reasonable proposition because you are keeping more value than you are replacing . |
| 14 | He selected Ellis , grandson of Red Grizzly Bear , a choice which angered Lawyer and Joseph and created more problems than it solved . |
| 15 | Like its predecessors , it attracted attention from many sources , and in the liberal or liberated social climate of the post-war years it probably created more problems than it solved . |
| 16 | This was certainly the conclusion of contemporary intellectuals , almost all of whom thought that the government 's attempts to raise additional troops created more problems than they solved . |
| 17 | Herzen 's suggestion that it continue in the West created more problems than it solved . |
| 18 | There are many reasons for this , but it is mainly because the infilled ditch contains more moisture than the surrounding dry soil . |
| 19 | In many countries , regular servings of beer , wine and spirits contain roughly the same amount of alcohol — but many people still believe that a measure of spirits contains more alcohol than a glass of beer . |
| 20 | One thus has The intensity is related to this , but the probability distribution function contains more information than the intensity . |
| 21 | Every day contains more weather than a week in Scotland , and weeks in Scotland can drag on for centuries , believe me ! |
| 22 | Follow-on milk contains more protein than breast milk or formula , but since protein deficiency is practically unheard of in this country , extra protein is n't really necessary . |
| 23 | Wholemeal bread contains more nutrients than white bread and three times as much fibre , but this does n't mean white bread is bad for you ; it contains valuable protein , carbohydrate , calcium , iron and B vitamins , and some fibre . |
| 24 | After all , the body contains more collagen than any other protein : it should be no surprise that protecting it could do a lot of good . |
| 25 | The galena in the Lower Palaeozoic deposits generally contains more silver than that in the carbonate-hosted mineralisation and the associated gangue minerals are generally quartz and/or calcite . |
| 26 | There are organic changes to the heart , and it becomes less efficient as we get older ; but lack of exercise causes more deterioration than simple ageing . |
| 27 | While seas and rivers may be dirty , British tapwater is supposed to be pure , and its pollution causes more concern than any other . |
| 28 | Overpayment in debt causes more problems than overpayment in equity . |
| 29 | The determination of cost of living allowances causes more problems than any of the others . |
| 30 | You 'll save a lot of wear and tear on your hands if you buy a stainless steel trowel , because nothing causes more blisters than using a rusty trowel . |