Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate cooking more than housework . |
| 2 | They want to be taught earlier , preferably at 11 , and they want to know more than just how babies are made . |
| 3 | Children appear to benefit more than adults from the increased opportunities for interaction and recreation , a conclusion confirmed by Eubank-Ahrens ' research in German Woonerven . |
| 4 | Gloucester still fighting for survival … its the game of the season for the cherry and whites … its the game they want to win more than anyother … last season at Kingsholm they pulled it off … they squeezed home by two points … it was 14-12 to Gloucester and win or lose there 'll be nothing in it tomorrow |
| 5 | How many people at breakfast time bother to do more than turn the set on , knowing that both channels are transmitting roughly similar programmes ? |
| 6 | Price will depend on the quality and quantity of the harvest , but expect to pay more than last year 's £1,200 per kilogram . |
| 7 | There are two known periods when fish tend to feed more than any other time in the summer months . |
| 8 | ‘ Some people now fear living more than dying because they dread becoming passive prisoners of technology , ’ said Prof Jennett . |
| 9 | With the help of local people , Liphook and District Businessmen raise thousands of pounds each year for local charities and this year they hope to raise more than ever . |
| 10 | Taken together , the words I hope conceal more than they reveal , and will serve only until such time as the precise formulation of your terms of reference enables you to select more apposite nomenclature . |
| 11 | In cases like this , one can not run the risk of having one side of the kite sail stretch more than the other . |
| 12 | Also , attorneys may be putting themselves up for huge amounts of emotional strain , knowing that their clients stand to lose more than their liberty . |
| 13 | Many of them used their homes as collateral for their loans and stand to lose more than just their jobs if Monktonhall fails . |
| 14 | Boys also seem to suffer more than girls when family discord and family disruption occur . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ They never seem to last more than about a week . ’ |
| 17 | The Orcs ’ single-mindedness is one of their greatest strengths , especially as they enjoy fighting more than anything else . |
| 18 | They also seem to shoal more than other species . |
| 19 | A strange fact about those of us who live in the West is that we always seem to want more than we have . |
| 20 | It 's been talking to OSF about just these kinds of things , and would ( of course ) , like to do more than simply participate in such an effort if it could , though the smoke signals from OSF read simply ‘ message received , ’ for the present . |
| 21 | People in prison get to shower more than I do . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got a home in the country , nothing flash just two farmer 's cottages knocked into one , an extraordinary wife , four amusing , insolent children , a couple of cats and dogs , a football team which regularly wins the league title and a job I like doing more than anything else , so although it sounds like terrible sentimental bullshit , I have got everything I ever wanted . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've got a home in the country , nothing flash just two farmer 's cottages knocked into one , an extraordinary wife , four amusing , insolent children , a couple of cats and dogs , a football team which regularly wins the league title and a job I like doing more than anything else , so although it sounds like terrible sentimental bullshit , I have got everything I ever wanted . |
| 24 | The main piece of evidence for the ‘ tense-mother/crying-baby ’ idea is that first babies tend to cry more than subsequent ones — doctors infer from this that the mother 's inexperience is an important factor . |
| 25 | Always be willing to ask questions of the material and demand to know more than the text is willing to divulge about people , places and events . |
| 26 | Erm I 'm always overjoyed when people say things like that to me , that you 've just said , er but I think I understand acting more than I understand anything in the world . |
| 27 | Parents give to their children , and continue to give more than their children ever give them in most cases , although one situation in which this flow often is reversed is where children have migrated to a more affluent country , and expect to send money back to their parents ( see for example , Thorogood , 1987 ) . |
| 28 | The ‘ After-Thought ’ ( xxxiv ) is famous , but try to read more than this . |
| 29 | If gardening tends to give you backache , remember to take plenty of rest periods during the day , and never try to lift more than you can easily cope with . |
| 30 | Since this shop has the reputation of being the best for designer clothes , its customers tend to pay more than at other branches — but still only a fraction of the retail price . |