Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , of course , a large number of these relationships rarely involve more than a few people . |
| 2 | No more than one LM granule needs to be used in preparing the stock bottle since Hahnemann says ‘ one rarely needs more than a single globule of appropriately dynamised medicine ’ ( para. 248a . ) . |
| 3 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
| 4 | Thank God her college was n't yet fashionable enough to attract more than the odd one or two . |
| 5 | Leaders may personally benefit more than the led but all share in the spin-offs from competent leadership . |
| 6 | Arkwright certainly picked a great spot for his country residence : south facing and above a lazy curve in the river , with the high cliff opposite guaranteeing more than a modicum of privacy , and only five minutes from work ! |
| 7 | HERE ARE two compilations whose existence obviously means more than a desperate milking of the public udders . |
| 8 | And does it not have the ludicrous implication that a two-month-old only knows more than the two-week-old because he is more active ? |
| 9 | 6 October , 1835 FELIX MENDELSSOHN writes to his family from Leipzig : ‘ The day after I accompanied the Hensels to Delitzsch , Chopin arrived here ; he would not stay more than a day , and so we spent it together entirely , and played music . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Names and positions are as important as addresses and telephone numbers and some directories do not give more than the editors ' and advertisement managers ' names . |
| 12 | For reasons which will become apparent , I will not provide more than a brief overview of this approach . |
| 13 | when they discover that they are not paying more than the 20 per cent . |
| 14 | Members were asked to assist in these rules and not to play more than the stated fees ! |
| 15 | You could never expect things to last , after all , could not plan more than a few days ahead . |
| 16 | This argument , which has been called ‘ the fair innings argument , ’ was summarised by Lockwood : ‘ To treat the older person , letting the younger person die , would thus be inherently inequitable in terms of life lived : the younger person would get no more years than the relatively few he has already had , whereas the older person , who has already had more than the younger person , will get several years more . ’ |
| 17 | Many great rivers — the Ganges and the Indus , the Amazon and the Yangtze — are so muddy that the animals swimming in them can not see more than a few inches ahead . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Your call should not cost more than a first class stamp . |
| 20 | Also , the cost of services has to be borne , in the main , from central or local government coffers , because most older people can not meet more than a fraction of the costs of the high levels of labour-intensive care they need . |
| 21 | This option was given to working wives in 1948 and withdrawn in 1978 but women who had already chosen to pay the reduced rate were allowed to continue , provided they did not take more than a two-year break from employment after 1978 . |
| 22 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 23 | Books can be sold on their jackets to impulse buyers who may well not read more than a few pages once they have bought them . |
| 24 | The rest of this book will not produce more than a flawed account of some of the arguments that have been advanced both concerning the physical and moral nature of God ( because even if a God existed , there is still the question of whether we should worship Him or rebel against Him ) . |
| 25 | Space does not permit more than a summary of the aspects the would-be consultant needs to consider jointly to ensure both a good beginning and optimum development for such a group , and readers are therefore referred to the guidelines offered in detail elsewhere ( cf Hanko 1985/7 ) . |
| 26 | Although this Arrowana is relatively cheap when young , I would not recommend more than the single specimen in an aquarium of this size . |
| 27 | Composers are notoriously fickle when it comes to performing their own music , but with a few exceptions ( the first part of the Diptyque being the most obvious , where the innumerable pauses , rallentandos and general changes of speed , not to mention more than a few smudges and slips , have no basis in the printed score ) Messiaen not only fulfils his own written requirements , but does so with utter conviction and persuasiveness . |
| 28 | Central party funds could not pay more than a tiny proportion of the total cost of running a local association in every constituency ; not paying the piper they were unable to call the tune . |
| 29 | However , we will not pay more than the market value of the package . |
| 30 | But the cylinders were so small they could not hold more than a minute of material . |