Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [det] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another rough guide is not to try more than approximately 4 or 6 different remedies without success before seeking more expert Homoeopathic advice . |
| 2 | Yet without such country reviews the performance of aid will not improve more than marginally . |
| 3 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 4 | Perhaps now , in the same way , Judith Cowan 's new range or work can also be effective in a climate which desperately seeks more than just a checklist of intention . |
| 5 | Always assuming ( perhaps dangerously ) that the world moves out of a slump , unemployment would not increase more than marginally . |
| 6 | Power supply units needed by the chips and relays , still cost more than either . |
| 7 | Yeah but like I 've still got more than well it 's about the same cos you 've got less at the top I think . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've always had more than just this . |
| 9 | Though they were still doing less than half as much business as the British company , their rate of return on capital was higher . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Operators also do more than just answer the phone . |
| 12 | Only your detective , perhaps , will need to be seen in somewhat greater depth , since your readers have got to sympathise with him or her and to do that they probably need more than just one point of contact . |
| 13 | When people speak of conceptual clustering , they often mean more than just a clustering process . |
| 14 | However , people do often need more than just a diet , as there may be psychological reasons why they ca n't manage to stay slim . ’ |
| 15 | Nevertheless , in line with Sag & Hankamer 's suggestions , once the attention of a literate person is directed to the examples in our corpus , they often appear less than fully acceptable . |
| 16 | Second , what education now needs more than ever is a period of calm and stability in which changes can be introduced or consolidated in partnership with the teaching profession without undue haste and lack of preparation . |
| 17 | However , he felt his moderating influence in the army was now needed more than ever . |
| 18 | Ms Davidson suggests that PR is now valued more than ever before and this is reflected in the number of highly qualified people coming into the industry . |
| 19 | Dealer Karsten Greve notes that for foreigners interested in contemporary art the Rheinland now means more than just Cologne : ‘ In Bonn , there are the new Bundeskunsthalle and Kunstmuseum Bonn ; there is the Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum in Krefelt , the Hollein-designed Museum Abteiberg in Mönchen-Gladbach , the Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg , the Museum Folkwang in Essen , the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf and the Von-der-Heydt Museum in Wuppertal ’ . |
| 20 | Al-Shara asserted that " the world public opinion now realizes more than ever before , especially in the aftermath of the Gulf crisis , that double standards are no longer acceptable in this age ; that the principles of international law , not the law of the jungle , must be repected " . |
| 21 | However , whether the musician or athlete will perform well involves more than just ability . |
| 22 | In first gear from a standing start , on the level , they ca n't make more than about fifteen miles an hour and they scream a bit doing that . |
| 23 | The ie became more than ever the pre-eminent entity in society . |
| 24 | If so , we English Poundians , even as we castigate our countrymen for clinging to the norm of the amateur in an age when that norm is unserviceable , may well spare more than just wistful nostalgia for this ideal that survives among us only in a debased and anachronistic version . |
| 25 | She was more than well acquainted with Lubor 's proclivity to see an invitation to grow amorous where there was none , though since he could n't do more than verbally flirt over the dinner table she could n't see any harm in accepting . |
| 26 | I told you last night , George , I ca n't do more than merely agree . |
| 27 | ‘ The figures do n't constitute more than about six months of real and viable fishing for our fleet , ’ he said . |
| 28 | A cross-trainer ( multi-purpose ) shoe will be your best buy , according to a survey carried out by the Consumers ' Association , and as long as your feet are well supported and cushioned you should n't pay more than around £40 . |
| 29 | When philosophers dismiss women as ‘ not-men ’ they frequently do more than simply lump them together with children or lunatics . |
| 30 | Well Fred 's got my Graham Thomas because it really is a superb rose but as well as that I would go for hybrid musk and I think of all the hybrid musk , my favourite is Felicia because of that silvery pink , lovely double shaped flower and that is very very heavily scented and I would have to have the bourbon rose the th the double white creamy white bourbon rose , if , you could almost eat that , that wo n't get more than about six foot and you can prune it to keep it in shape a bit if it begins to get too straggly . |