Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] more than a " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Jeanneau family seems to have more than a little to do with the founding of a number of yacht building companies in France other than that which currently bears its name . |
| 32 | Two community or measles studies that we included had more than a single death and were not individually statistically significant : those by Barclay et al and Vijayaraghavan et al . |
| 33 | Starting to feel more than a fraction disgruntled that he 'd been in Prague when she 'd called before — on the right day and the right time — Fabia strove hard to keep what she was feeling out of her look . |
| 34 | JANSHER KHAN , who won back the world title here on Saturday , is in danger of losing some or all of his $15,000 ( £9,500 ) prize money this week , for failing to make more than a brief appearance at the official dinner afterwards . |
| 35 | In order to do well at English at Oxford , you would have to show more than a purely aesthetic aptitude . |
| 36 | ( f ) when a purchaser is being sought for a holding , or aggregate holdings , of shares carrying 30 per cent or more of the voting rights of a company or when the board of a company is seeking potential offerors , and : ( i ) the company is the subject of rumour and speculation , or ( ii ) there is an untoward movement in its share price , or ( iii ) the number of potential purchasers or offerors approached is about to be increased to include more than a very restricted number of people . |
| 37 | Although this research is expected , and intended , to have practical educational relevance , it is hoped to provide more than a descriptive analysis of classroom practice . |
| 38 | This was illustrated most illuminatingly by a recent study in which a group of people were asked to eat more than a pound of potatoes each day ( baked in their skins , not fried ) in addition to whatever other food they could manage to eat . |
| 39 | Gradually the combined armies in France managed to gain more than a toehold on French soil and started to advance , and our aircrews found themselves flying over more and more territory which was in friendly hands , so therefore the casualty rate in Bomber Command dropped dramatically . |
| 40 | Furthermore , while the nature of the curriculum was shrouded in generalizations , it was clearly intended to offer more than a narrow technical expertise . |
| 41 | Efforts to chart continuities in maladjustment almost invariably fail to find more than a small relationship between early attachment or infant behaviour and later emotional or behavioural adjustment , and although very early relationships and behaviour are seen to be very important , most researchers aiming to demonstrate this fact end by concluding that discontinuity rather than continuity is the rule ( e.g. Lewis et al. , 1984 ; Fischer et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 42 | If such phrases always fail to extend more than a few words , through failing to match the input , then we can afford to delay the interpretation without placing too much of a burden on higher level components . |
| 43 | It is really impossible for someone not technically qualified , or who was not at the time encouraged to understand more than a very limited aspect of its functions , to analyse the workings of the apparatus . |
| 44 | It was difficult for our branch of the bank , which was not allowed to keep more than a certain amount of money in the safe , and often had to send documents and money to the head branch in Parma . |
| 45 | It is devastatingly hard to work out , but on the plus side you do get more than a year in which to solve the problem . |
| 46 | In certain mines the men were not allowed to earn more than a certain sum but there is no evidence of this invidious practice at Coniston . |
| 47 | This will be the case where negotiations or discussions are extended to embrace more than a small group of people or where they are at such an advanced stage that the target is reasonably confident that an offer will be made for its shares ; where secrecy can not be maintained ; or if security is breached . |
| 48 | Strict separation was the order of the day , forcing some couples to leave notes in drainpipes and resort to all kinds of strategies if they wished to communicate more than a passing word . |
| 49 | However , the concert party folded before we had had more than a few ragged rehearsals , mainly because Bob 's girlfriend , a tall , bossy Waaf who fancied herself as another Vera Lynn , suddenly went all narrow-minded and decreed that if there was to be a chorus line , we were not to show our legs but to wear slacks . |
| 50 | I think you 've spoken more than a few minutes . |
| 51 | Oxygen travels by means of billions of collisions of gas particles , a process that would be too slow if the molecules had to travel more than a fraction of an inch . |
| 52 | If you have had more than a little alcohol you would probably become so relaxed that you fell asleep and nothing the therapist was saying would register at all . |
| 53 | In 1356 , after a succession of fruitless campaigns ( though just before some spectacular successes ) , the king sought in vain from the clergy a grant of a tenth for each of the next six years ; the clergy refused to offer more than a solitary tenth because not only had some of their conditions attached to earlier grants been ignored but also they themselves were too impoverished by war levies of all kinds to afford greater liberality . |
| 54 | As secretary of that organisation , I have to declare more than a personal interest but the presentation , during the Association 's annual dinner , held for the first time in the Debenture Holders Lounge at The All England Club , was clearly a most popular choice . |
| 55 | Both Friends of the Earth and former CFC manufacturers , ICI , have acknowledged that the scheme has failed to collect more than a small proportion of CFCs from old appliances . |