Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] than [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can do more than play games : you can add them , multiply them , and develop them to a remarkable depth . |
| 2 | Subscribers to the new ‘ low-cost ’ mobile phones could end up paying more than business users |
| 3 | that we 're not actually and the thing is , with advertising here , we 're selling more than Christmas crackers . |
| 4 | London boroughs spent more than other metropolitan boroughs , which in turn spent more than county authorities . |
| 5 | The present book does not pretend to do more than help students to lay some of the foundations of scoring methods , but of course they should be encouraged to keep abreast of all fruitful developments that take place . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Third , the direction of state organizations is structured so that accumulation functions are ranked higher than legitimation functions . |
| 8 | Blaming lower than forecast levels of personal and corporate tax receipts and rising interest rates , the OMB estimated the true level of the 1991 deficit as between $123,000 million and $138,000 million . |
| 9 | In relative terms , people forced to rely on public transport pay more than car users for their mobility . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , this book does more than foreground girls ' experience and the culture of femininity . |
| 12 | Nothing dates faster than bathroom colours , so bear in mind that the colour you choose for the bathroom may make your house difficult to sell in the future . |
| 13 | Self-knowledge , after all , comes cheaper than libel writs . |