Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want to be taught earlier , preferably at 11 , and they want to know more than just how babies are made . |
| 2 | make sense of written material we need to know more than simply the ‘ linguistic ’ characteristic of the text : in addition to these characteristics we need to recognise that any writing system is deeply embedded in attitudinal , cultural , economic and technological constraints … reading and writing are therefore also sociolinguistic activities . |
| 3 | Another rough guide is not to try more than approximately 4 or 6 different remedies without success before seeking more expert Homoeopathic advice . |
| 4 | None of the libraries in this group had a staff establishment higher than 130 , so it appears to be the smaller authorities in particular who found it difficult to allocate more than largely nominal responsibility . |
| 5 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 6 | You may need to purchase more than just the anemone you require . |
| 7 | After all , the best comedy has a serious intent , and Forsyth clearly wants to evoke more than just laughter . |
| 8 | No matter how certain he might be immediately before he closed his eyes that there was plenty of space in front of him , no matter how positive he was as he walked with eyes closed that he was n't veering off to one side and there was tarmac under his feet rather than grass , he still found it very hard , almost impossible , to walk more than about twenty paces with his eyes closed . |
| 9 | Indeed , the whole is considered to constitute more than just the sum total of its parts . |
| 10 | She had spent most of the time upstairs trying to look more than OK , and had despised herself all the while for even trying . |
| 11 | In other words , branches agreed to retain less than before of what they had collected from students , and if necessary raise extra funds through special events . |
| 12 | ‘ They never seem to last more than about a week . ’ |
| 13 | But it should be kept in mind that the home visit , for reasons of either vocational guidance or after-care , was intended to do more than simply attend to the school-leaver , who was urged to ‘ put your shoulder to the wheel ’ in order ‘ to reduce to a minimum the number of inefficient citizens ’ . |
| 14 | This allows us to do more than simply check back on the forecasters ' performance on individual countries ; it enables us to assess which forecaster has the best record across all the big economies . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Woken the next morning , yet again , by the early arrival of the twins , there had simply been no opportunity to do more than groggily force herself to rise , dressing herself and the children before completing the packing of all their suitcases . |
| 17 | But the fact is no lender can ever be absolutely sure that a guarantor is not being subject to pressure from the principal debtor , and to require him to do more than properly and fairly point out to the guarantor the desirability of obtaining independent advice , and to require the documents to be executed in the presence of a solicitor , is to put upon commercial lenders a burden which would severely handicap the carrying out of what is , after all , an extremely common transaction of everyday occurrence for banks and other commercial lenders . |
| 18 | said , at p. 1201E–F , that the law should not ‘ require [ the lender ] to do more than properly and fairly point out to the guarantor the desirability of obtaining independent advice … |
| 19 | Has he asked you to do more than just bring film of Piper 's records ? ’ |
| 20 | I would need to do more than just win this game , I would need to annihilate her like the cockerel ; more , I would need to break her completely . |
| 21 | He wanted to do more than just look ; it was at such times that he felt the urge to paint . |
| 22 | Successful time management allows you to do more than merely cope with your study or your work in the office . |
| 23 | However , if artistic representations of my experience are to do more than merely reflect a personal trauma , it is imperative that the work connect with the common experiences of other women in the same or similar situations . |
| 24 | In reality , neither side expected to deploy more than about 100 bombers . |
| 25 | Chatterjee wondered about this as it began to seem more than simply coincidence . |
| 26 | It was hard to sound more than fairly enthusiastic . |
| 27 | ‘ So there we are , ’ he went on , and his voice seemed to carry more than ever . |
| 28 | Her season began unpromisingly with an attack of shingles which kept her out of action for a couple of weeks but she recovered quickly and so completely that in addition to compiling her formidable record on the golf course , she was able to cope more than adequately with her school exams . |
| 29 | Many of them used their homes as collateral for their loans and stand to lose more than just their jobs if Monktonhall fails . |
| 30 | that erm when , in , in all , all the uprisings , the peasant uprisings , when the communists actually tried to propose more than just rent reductions then the peasants tended to lose interest at that . |