Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One night , bumping into the doorway , and stepping over a colleague , I made my way out into the sleet , the toilets all being occupied , and as I crouched , steadying my cheek against the cold planks , I peered through the reeking shadows of Auschwitz and saw that the nearest ruins were fuming more than ever and had even begun to glow . |
| 2 | The deaf are finding that their hearing aids are amplifying more than just the voices of their friends . |
| 3 | Lieutenant Guss Braden is called in to unravel the mysterious death and finds himself becoming more than professionally interested in Blair . |
| 4 | Matthew made his excuses , nipped to the loo , produced the goods , packaged the container and summoned a bike messenger to deliver it to the clinic — ‘ at which point , I returned to my presentation , looking more than slightly flushed . |
| 5 | When Sally got off the bus he was waiting for her , leaning against the bonnet , smoking a cigarette and looking more than ever the dashing young man-about-town . |
| 6 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 7 | The government estimated that nearly one in three businesses would pay rate increases of more than 50 per cent over the first few years , with some paying more than double their previous bill . |
| 8 | It 's history now that the great Bob Paisley told him to be more ruthless for goals — and ten years on , he 's enjoying scoring more than ever . |
| 9 | The crews are mostly ‘ medical assistants , ’ which means possessing more than just a knowledge of first aid . |
| 10 | I reiterate what the Minister said : the aerospace industry in general is exporting more than ever before in the face of substantial competition from abroad . |
| 11 | The Marshal only stared at the warrant , his great eyes bulging more than ever . |
| 12 | When United fans were kicking more than just sand castles down in Bournemouth , they wore T-shirts bearing the sinister motto ‘ Nobody Likes Us And We Do n't Care ’ . |
| 13 | The stain can detect the presence of Mg-calcite containing more than about 3% MgCO 3 . |
| 14 | seems to be producing more than just cereals and soups at the moment … the baby business is booming and so far they are all boys . |
| 15 | Journalists such as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington post filed innumerable stories , often drawn from anonymous sources , and including less than completely substantiated allegations of criminal behaviour by public officials . |
| 16 | With British women travelling more than ever Clairol have developed a new range of mobile curling appliances . |
| 17 | Now , almost a quarter of a century later , she was suffering more than ever , because she could not forget , and because she needed to feel close to the ones she still loved . |
| 18 | Travelling less than hopefully puts blight on holidays abroad . |
| 19 | As most new artists signed by record companies are introduced to A&R departments by established managers , or by music industry lawyers , artists should consider approaching more than just a record company when seeking a recording contract . |
| 20 | Hussey has been doing more than both driving and reading the map . |
| 21 | In effect , under the present system a voter is doing more than simply choosing a parliamentary representative . |
| 22 | The financial markets may be in retreat and the pound may be on a slippery slope , but it 's not just the insolvency practitioners and bailiffs that are doing well ; some companies in sectors as diverse as retailing , restaurants and medical equipment are also doing more than just make ends meet . |
| 23 | When you move into your Higgs & Hill home at Port Solent you 'll be doing more than just living on the waterfront . |
| 24 | A psalmist in Biblical times wrote of lifting one 's eyes to the hills but on the day we visited Croagh Patrick on the western seaboard of Co Mayo , Ireland thousands were doing more than just look . |
| 25 | So I said if it 's only for a mile it 's going to be well less than a minute at eighty , presuming you were doing more than thereabouts and er that was it . |
| 26 | Even middle-school students , a number of articles declared , were doing more than merely ‘ talking love ’ . |
| 27 | If the flavour of his text so far is to be believed , Bozzy was as much a soldiering man as Coleridge , which is saying less than very little . |
| 28 | Though they were still doing less than half as much business as the British company , their rate of return on capital was higher . |
| 29 | And Branson knew that Virgin stood a better chance of achieving that than either EMI or A&M had done . |
| 30 | Yet , even the theoretical models that underpin the relationships sketched in figure 4.1 do not constitute a general explanatory theory of why and when the balance of bargaining power shifts , nor why outcomes differ , nor yet why and how the bargaining process ( involving more than narrowly defined one firm-one state conditions ) gets started . |