Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] more than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Badges make more than pin money |
| 2 | Money counts more than Monet in the 1990s . |
| 3 | This will tend to exempt users of word processors from registration , but not users of databases containing more than names and addresses . |
| 4 | Since aluminium expands more than steel the steel bolts had worked loose . |
| 5 | In fact , on many occasions , Maisie talked more than Henry . |
| 6 | It has been argued persuasively that passages from the Bible which had been taken as prohibiting gay sex were either mistranslated or taken out of context ; that , in any case , the Bible could not be read as a set of rules to be unthinkingly obeyed ; that love and justice in sexual relationships mattered more than gender ; and that homophobia itself was sinful . |
| 7 | Matters were complicated by Yorick 's style : his consciousness did more than stream ; it gushed . |
| 8 | Relationships need more than empathy . |
| 9 | ‘ The pattern that imports decreased more than exports remains unchanged , which could help maintain the surplus and problems with other nations , ’ Mr Okoshi said . |
| 10 | Behind these changes lay both developments in the European economy as a whole , and the English exploitation of new manufacturing techniques , from which particular areas benefited more than others . |
| 11 | They lack the flexibility to do more than drag or pull on clothes . |
| 12 | Marx 's interpretation of the Paris Commune was , as Lichtheim noted , to become a Leninist shibboleth ( Lichtheim 1964 , p. 119 ) .2 Indeed , Lenin did more than Marx to contrast the administrative principles of the Commune with the bureaucratic workings of the bourgeois state . |
| 13 | The " labouring poor " covers the majority who did work and who were less than comfortably off , but the truly poor were usually so because they could not work or could not get enough work , while many skilled journeymen earned more than small-holding freeholders . |
| 14 | Will it appeal to some teaching styles more than others ? 3 . |
| 15 | She said , ‘ Places change more than people , perhaps . |
| 16 | Other people , such as the author of a book , do not have the right to do more than offer suggestions which are a few among the thousands possible . |
| 17 | To men who lived on what they could pick up from articles and reviews , the ultimate weapon implied more than lack of a showcase : it implied starvation … |
| 18 | In relative terms , people forced to rely on public transport pay more than car users for their mobility . |
| 19 | As Stephen Wood points out in his Introduction to his edited book discussing the de-skilling thesis ( Wood 1982 , 15 ) , Braverman appears to assume ‘ that prior to Taylorism control was not in the hands of management , but was rather a kind of management by neglect ( the laissez-faire method , as Taylor called it ) , in which workers knew more than managers ’ . |
| 20 | But a coup took more than force . |
| 21 | Such an eventuality — which no one who had studied the results of Irish elections could suppose to be quite improbable — would put us back to February 1974 , when Labour with 37.1% had fewer votes than the Conservatives with 37.9% , but with 301 seats won more than the Conservatives with 297 ; or to 1951 , when the Conservatives with 48.0% had fewer votes than Labour with 48.8% , but with 321 seats won more than labour with 295 . |
| 22 | Communicating effectively in business means more than familiarity with the language . |
| 23 | The 60-year-old former catering company director left more than Pounds 200,000 worth of debt , all of it spent on the other woman . |
| 24 | But to stay competitive , an enterprise needs more than productivity and effectiveness — it needs creativity . |
| 25 | As you can see , males die more than females throughout their , throughout their lifespan . |
| 26 | So in terms of infant mortality er males die more than females . |
| 27 | And in recent years it is impossible not to see that Dale Thomas ' name occurs more than others , including being five times the Club Champion — winning on one occasion after a 60-hole match ! |
| 28 | The amounts of flocculating agent have to be determined by trial on the water itself , some waters requiring more than others . |
| 29 | ‘ Constanza belonged more than Anna . |
| 30 | Such an integrated approach , in which education encompasses more than schooling , is essential if educators are to play a positive role in rural development . |