Example sentences of "[verb] to more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To claim that 1 know that my postal code is NW3 2RT is evidently to claim or be committed to more than that 1 believe it . |
| 2 | However , to raise this income to £140.90 per week the family would need to more than double their earnings , from £75 a week to £165 a week ( Hansard , 28 July 1988 , col. 509 ) . |
| 3 | This matters to more than just those smooth scions of the British upper class who work in this singular insurance market , or to those who pledge their wealth , as ‘ names ’ , to back the market 's underwriting syndicates . |
| 4 | The Micom Communications Corp subsidiary of MB Communications Inc , Lawrence , Pennsylvania has announced a new model in its Marathon range of data and speech network servers which is claimed to more than double the performance of the previous products . |
| 5 | In 1990 , these amounted to more than half of its Dm25.9 billion budget . |
| 6 | On contemporary art sales undoubtedly enduring a difficult period at present he noted that even at the highest point of the market , revenue had not amounted to more than about 20% of the house 's total sales . |
| 7 | His skull , which protruded above a filthy cravat , was so small that the features of his face seemed to more than cover it ; he was bald , which added to the grotesque effect . |
| 8 | Dostoevsky 's notebook word ‘ tone ’ amounts to more than dust and mortar and summer smells ; it catches up human beings and entangles them with the city . |
| 9 | But he has not convinced his hometown audience that the larger goal of the Gulf war — the crafting of a new world order — amounts to more than a string of words . |
| 10 | However the executive staff could receive changed instructions from the Council acting collectively , which amounts to more than the member States acting collectively through their delegates . |
| 11 | One about Flaubert , one about Ellen , one about myself My own is the simplest of the three — it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence — and yet I find it the hardest to begin . |
| 12 | In about 13% of schools , the money contributed by parents amounts to more than the schools ' official funding from their LEAs . |
| 13 | Whether this amounts to more than a row of beans these days is questionable . |
| 14 | Breathing in this way will be more efficient if the body is of the size and shape that gives maximum skin area and minimum body volume and this indeed , is just what is found among these lungless salamanders ; their bodies are thin and elongated and none of them grows to more than a few centimetres in length . |
| 15 | Bonuses are spreading to more than half of all managing directors . |
| 16 | Group size is very small , rarely amounting to more than a singleton or a mother with a dependent infant . |
| 17 | Harsh and angry with undercurrents of lovelorn bitterness , but you ca n't imagine them amounting to more than a mere outlet for crowd frustration . |
| 18 | Regretting ‘ that he had no power to send him to prison without the option of a fine ’ , the magistrate imposed a fine of 40 shillings ( probably amounting to more than a month 's wages ) or twenty-one days ' hard labour . |
| 19 | A significant variance could be defined as one amounting to more than a given percentage of the budget but which is not explained by the general level of prices , i.e. inflation or deflation . |
| 20 | Erm the greenbelt objectives which we identify with or could be compromised by significant peripheral expansion , or the expansion of a settlement within the greenbelt , were primarily the effecting the setting of the historic city , which we and the County considered and refer to more than just the green wedges , and but involve the whole countryside , and the setting of the settlements within the greenbelt around the Greater York area , expansion of lar large urban areas into the countryside , possible coalescence of settlements . |
| 21 | The way we look at it is , there 's people out there want to kill me , and the authorities let you in here and give you access to more than we will probably ever get . |
| 22 | Modern professionals can hope to more than equal Rhodes ' achievements — viz. Club Professional Keith Williams , who in three consecutive friendlies in 1983 returned 63 , 63 and 67 and then followed these with a ‘ professional ’ 68 . |
| 23 | China 's existing network is already aiming to more than treble in size to 1m lines this year , but this still represents only about five or six phones per 100 people . |
| 24 | This ties in with earlier studies which have found that two-day-old infants who are considered attractive are held closer and spoken to more than unattractive babies . |
| 25 | They would walk in the dusk by the water , listening to the lapping of the tide against the boats , and there would be someone there , perhaps , whom she would understand , appeal to more than his usual friends , for she could do things like deal with electricity and mend things , and she had not always lived in England , that was interesting , and she did not just giggle and think about clothes , and he would find her a relief to talk to , this rather exceptional , different person , someone with imagination . |
| 26 | Without that , no talks will ever amount to more than the briefest of encounters . |
| 27 | Although these differences of terminology amount to more than semantic predilections , for they support — perhaps even generate — rival conceptions of the limits of contractual obligations , the generic idea remains a special exercise of choice by an individual , through which he deliberately incurs a binding legal responsibility . |
| 28 | It must also amount to more than simple investments in bricks and mortar and extend beyond conventional methods of professional development for primary care practitioners . |
| 29 | Whether citizens ' charters on the model of those introduced in Great Britain from 1991 onwards amount to more than a symbolic empowerment of consumer-citizens remains to be seen . |
| 30 | From reading this book I was not convinced that Wentwood actually aspires to more than that . |