Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] more than [art] " in BNC.

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1 Leaders may personally benefit more than the led but all share in the spin-offs from competent leadership .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 For reasons which will become apparent , I will not provide more than a brief overview of this approach .
5 You could never expect things to last , after all , could not plan more than a few days ahead .
6 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 .
7 Your call should not cost more than a first class stamp .
8 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 .
9 This option was given to working wives in 1948 and withdrawn in 1978 but women who had already chosen to pay the reduced rate were allowed to continue , provided they did not take more than a two-year break from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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 ) .
13 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 ) .
14 Although this Arrowana is relatively cheap when young , I would not recommend more than the single specimen in an aquarium of this size .
15 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 .
16 However , we will not pay more than the market value of the package .
17 But the cylinders were so small they could not hold more than a minute of material .
18 Cup-tie , with Bailey playing for the well-known London amateur side , Walthamstow Avenue , who switched the replay to Stamford Bridge because their home ground could not hold more than a fraction of the spectators who wanted to attend .
19 Secondly , a company 's articles could not require more than a 50% majority for the appointment or removal of directors , nor confer on holders of a particular class of shares an exclusive right to nominate directors .
20 Space does not allow more than a cursory examination of the evidence , but one can illustrate its value , and the problems of using it , by looking at the question of how the balance of England 's exports changed .
21 13.2.2.3 the giving of such consent shall not involve more than the minimum delay which is necessary to protect commercial interests .
22 He hopes to show that , although we can not know quite what the former say we can , nevertheless we can still know more than the latter allow .
23 ‘ You ca n't possibly do more than an hour , not after a full day 's rehearsal .
24 perhaps this was because he could hardly see more than a yard in front of his face .
25 I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down .
26 Does that mean , the maximum of ten per cent , you would n't ever get more than the eleven hundred , or
27 I 'm sure it 'll cost more than a quid but seeing as you ca n't like get more than a mile long piece anyway so
28 These do n't usually rise more than a couple of hundred metres before falling back along parabolic paths .
29 Coun. Ian Paterson ( C ) said he was worried the Dolphin Centre would eventually cost more than the £4.5m. allocated .
30 Claudia could n't eat more than a morsel of the beef Roman had ordered .
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