Example sentences of "[v-ing] much more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Western mentality — conditioned to regard physical objects as clear-cut and isolated — remains largely unaware that the physical level is only one significant level of reality , obscuring much more than it reveals . |
| 2 | Producing much more than 800dpi from a dry toner system is a major problem , the particles have to be very precise and tend to clump together , but this level of quality is probably sufficient for anything an office is ever likely to need . |
| 3 | Er we are eating much more than we need . |
| 4 | Sharpe knew he was seeing much more than a cavalry raid , though he was not certain whether this was the real invasion . |
| 5 | The operation also entailed taking a huge swathe of land permanently to allow repairs and maintenance to take place and would disrupt farming much more than pylons would . |
| 6 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 7 | The reinstatement was thorough , taking place over two years and costing much more than the original estimate . |
| 8 | First treat your skin from this perspective ( see Chapter 7 ) and the oils will work more efficiently , adding much more than just the polish ! |
| 9 | This was recognised as requiring much more than a technical management process . |
| 10 | This means Zeneca might have a hard time charging much more than Merck 's price for its drug , even if Merrem is better . |
| 11 | Cos if you take them back , you 've got to keep them somewhere and building societies and banks are charging much more than they used to for actually keeping safe deposit . |
| 12 | However , he often appears to be saying much more than this and he has certainly been taken as making significant generalisations about the nature of literacy as such . |
| 13 | Likewise on glaciers , tight ropes should prevent anybody from ever dropping much more than waist deep into a hidden crevasse — a position from which the victim can usually be dragged out . |
| 14 | Companies in the countries which were accumulating rapidly were investing much more than their retained profits — borrowing the rest from the banks or money market . |