Example sentences of "[verb] more [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Youth project develops more than camera skill |
| 2 | But to stay competitive , an enterprise needs more than productivity and effectiveness — it needs creativity . |
| 3 | When Katherine returns unexpectedly to do battle for Jack as well as the Deal , Tess needs more than power dressing to win . |
| 4 | Money Smith is ideal for those who want more than cheque book program but who do n't want to foot the bill for a multi-module accounting system . |
| 5 | Neither position , however , contains more than part of the truth . |
| 6 | Life holds more than birth , copulation and death . |
| 7 | Theories must be allowed to contain more than experience can pronounce upon . |
| 8 | Quality matters more than quantity in the time you spend together . |
| 9 | In fact , do n't you agree that sometimes value matters more than cost ? |
| 10 | It is a notable achievement , especially for a left-wing ‘ class-firster ’ ; but Ms Magas understands that in places like ex-Yugoslavia — and perhaps not only there — nation still matters more than class . |
| 11 | The ‘ assumptions ’ of the topmost box can include more than experience puts there , but whatever finds its way in has to be transformed by deduction into predictions which can be tested by observation . |
| 12 | As the Gospel narrative unfolds we are quickly made aware that the good news signifies more than rescue from divine wrath . |
| 13 | Earlier centuries , in contrast , had an appreciation of the past that embodied more than nostalgia or antiquarian interest . |
| 14 | The conclusion of the tale : ( Trickery achieves more than force can do ) |
| 15 | His view of a robust plebeian culture embraces more than recreation , although the forms this took played an important and integrated role in a popular culture which represented a whole way of life . |
| 16 | Of the other verbs denoting causality , get and occasion resemble cause more than force and oblige do in that they evoke causality without the idea of coercion . |
| 17 | The luxury shower — costing more than Princess Diana 's whirlpool bath -is part of a £26,000 spruce-up of Chief Executive Mike Smith 's office . |
| 18 | Does it show more than intertextuality |
| 19 | ‘ He 'll do more than weep before we see this out , ’ Nora promised . |
| 20 | You can do more than play games : you can add them , multiply them , and develop them to a remarkable depth . |
| 21 | The juxtaposition of their love-making against Bishop Casey performing his sacred duties will do more than shock . |
| 22 | In all three there is the implication that theorists of social representations must do more than study social representations . |
| 23 | No one farmer could possibly be qualified to advise on all the options , nor could he do more than skate over them in one volume . |
| 24 | Making computers ‘ think ’ ( not necessarily as humans do , but in a logical , inferential way so that they can do more than arithmetic ) is a ‘ grand vision ’ for Edward Feigenbaum , one of the Prometheuses of AI , Feigenbaum is a computer scientist and senior investigator for computer heuristics ( common rules of thumb for thinking ) at Stanford University in California . |
| 25 | And although Eliot was only one member of a jury which included among others Robert Lowell , W. H. Auden , Conrad Aiken and Katherine Anne Porter , he was singled out for abuse : in fact , he seemed to receive more than Pound himself . |
| 26 | Of course , as should be the way with a don , he excited dismay - dismay more than dislike or distrust . |
| 27 | The canal took 18 years to complete , twice as long as Telford had forecast , and cost more than double what he had estimated , but it was an outstanding engineering achievement for the time , even though the actual length of genuine canal that had to be dug was only 21 miles , since the navigable channel took advantage of existing lochs along the glen . |
| 28 | Subscribers to the new ‘ low-cost ’ mobile phones could end up paying more than business users |
| 29 | if the Purchaser believes it is paying more than market value , it would be better off claiming damages in tort rather than contract ; and vice versa ; |
| 30 | that measured more than wood . |