Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few people in Japan expect Mr Gorbachev to make more than a few diplomatic utterances about the islands while in Tokyo . |
| 2 | Control of factors such as resistance to change and propensity to take more than a fair share of the spoils must be exercised at national and international levels . |
| 3 | But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | German law does not allow charities to put more than a quarter of their donations into a reserve . |
| 6 | But Mr Carefull , 76 , of Helhoughton , Norfolk , used his cash to make more than a few prayers come true by helping others . |
| 7 | Norwegian rules generally forbid foreign investors to own more than a third of an insurer . |
| 8 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |
| 9 | However , we have in fragment VII another example of amorality — the moral insignificance of the meaningless nonsense-rhyme of Sir Thopas — against which , and against the positive morality of Melibee , from which the Host is able to draw a more pertinent moral , the amorality of the Shipman 's Tale becomes in itself a form of immorality , the failure of a tale to offer more than a licentious celebration of the terms of trade of the brothel and of pornography . |
| 10 | Montgomery had seen too many such people to feel more than a token sympathy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When this last measure failed to force some authorities sufficiently into line , the Conservative government , in 1984 , introduced a measure called rate capping that made it illegal for authorities designated by the Secretary of State to levy more than a certain amount in rates , their only form of independent finance . |
| 13 | And occasionally , as now , it so happened that duty and pleasure would fall together in a sweet coincidence ; and from Parson 's Pleasure , after dutifully forbidding Lewis to linger more than a couple of hours or so , Morse himself departed . |
| 14 | Nearby , Quickstep , a pleasant VS 4b , lacks the stature of its more imposing neighbours but has the rock and the moves to prove more than a match for many a celebrated limestone VS . |
| 15 | The male of the species is an unadulterated chauvinist who will not allow the females of his harem to move more than a few feet from him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The beauty about making the batsman hit into the V is that the bowler can pack his fielders in that area of the field and make it extremely difficult for the batsman to score more than a single . |
| 19 | It is rare for a tribe to spend more than a few months in any one place ; consequently , any rug that is unfinished when the tribe moves has to be fastened tightly to the loom and transported in its entirety to the next encampment . |