Example sentences of "[to-vb] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | True , this is on one of those detested and expensive 0898 numbers but I am assures that Directus keep the message as succinct as possible and that is rare for a call to last more than a minute . |
| 32 | The trial is expected to last more than a month . |
| 33 | We were lucky to last more than the first fairway together . |
| 34 | If such phrases always fail to extend more than a few words , through failing to match the input , then we can afford to delay the interpretation without placing too much of a burden on higher level components . |
| 35 | She says that the pupils were ‘ not pushed or encouraged to do more than the basic minimum ’ . |
| 36 | He had previously made much play of the fact that the Labour party wanted to do more than the Government to ensure that women were paid properly . |
| 37 | Rich countries should accept that they do not have , and never will have , facilities to recycle more than a fraction of the rubbish they create . |
| 38 | It is impossible to give more than a brief and partial account of it . |
| 39 | It is unnecessary to give more than the following sketch of the widespread litigation which has attended the efforts made to bring this case to trial . |
| 40 | When writing glissandos it is not necessary to give more than the first and last notes of the glissando , if the notes to which the harp is to be set are given . |
| 41 | Two other grandmothers who came on regular visits , one ‘ very generous ’ and the other an eloquent ‘ martinet ’ , died too soon to leave more than a dim recollection . ’ |
| 42 | He 'd have to judge the force of the blow very carefully and you 'd expect it to leave more than a slight bump . ’ |
| 43 | The ever-familiar profile seems to derive more than a smidgeon of alternative inspiration from Aria 's Magna-series , as in fact does the whole bass . |
| 44 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 45 | This will be the case where negotiations or discussions are extended to embrace more than a small group of people or where they are at such an advanced stage that the target is reasonably confident that an offer will be made for its shares ; where secrecy can not be maintained ; or if security is breached . |
| 46 | Where the returns from criminal work had been too limited to support more than a small number of firms , they had now increased while other firms felt under economic threat . |
| 47 | He had not had time to compare more than a few paragraphs scattered throughout each text , but he had seen enough to know that their contents were practically identical . |
| 48 | It is also difficult to see more than a small part of the action while defending oneself , and difficult to convey to magistrates the naked aggression displayed . |
| 49 | They hesitated among the thick heather , unable to see more than a few feet ahead . |
| 50 | It was now impossible to see more than a few yards . |
| 51 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 52 | Cash-paying customers , unable to see more than a backswing , chose to misunderstand the intention of the organisers , and flattened them . |
| 53 | I want you to see more than the cow . |
| 54 | She had been caught between relief and disappointment in that moment , but one of the waitresses had materialised at her side to ask a question , and for the rest of the evening she had been too busy to spare more than a passing occasional thought for the man with the still dark eyes . |
| 55 | There is also initial reluctance to spare more than an hour , though experience shows that interviewees will find time for three or four more sessions . |
| 56 | ( f ) when a purchaser is being sought for a holding , or aggregate holdings , of shares carrying 30 per cent or more of the voting rights of a company or when the board of a company is seeking potential offerors , and : ( i ) the company is the subject of rumour and speculation , or ( ii ) there is an untoward movement in its share price , or ( iii ) the number of potential purchasers or offerors approached is about to be increased to include more than a very restricted number of people . |
| 57 | And thus the reader has to go more than the usual way he goes to understand what he 's looking at . |
| 58 | But the author ( and readers ) will want some written commentary to accompany the figures and here caution must be exercised not to claim more than the figures warrant . |
| 59 | since last March in the number of patients having to wait more than a year ? |
| 60 | Newcastle North MP Doug Henderson has written to city health chiefs , highlighting cases in which people are having to wait more than a year . |