Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] than [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boardroom upsets could not have done other than harm to the playing side of the club , he went on . |
| 2 | Already several of the rabbits were asleep , crouched uneasily between the thick stems , aware of the chance of danger but too tired to do more than trust to luck . |
| 3 | It is , in my view , necessary for the plaintiffs to do more than point to the provisions of the statute . |
| 4 | But to refer to Wladek as ‘ a typical representative of the culturally passive mass which constitutes in every civilised society the enormous majority of the population ’ is to do less than justice to a tale which is at times very lively indeed and which was surely not written by any ‘ passive ’ sort of person . |
| 5 | The ‘ foreign interests ’ of the Federal Republic of Germany , in terms of Blackmun J. 's tripartite analysis , were seen as particularly compelling and no good cause had been shown for doing other than resort to the Convention 's procedures . |
| 6 | One should therefore be cautious about generalisations which do less than justice to the contribution which friendship can make to the well-being of specific groups of old people . |
| 7 | But they do less than justice to this remarkable donkey . |
| 8 | Shinwell 's remarks did less than justice to both men who , in their own fashion , had a genuine concern for the welfare of seamen and their organisation . |
| 9 | They did more than justice to the varying moods of Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet Suite No 2 , although there were odd moments when the orchestra were not precisely together , notably at the start of The Young Juliet section . |
| 10 | If the book does less than justice to large , complex organisms one can argue that sub specie aeternitatis the authors may have got it about right ! |
| 11 | We shall not be satisfied with a theory which does less than justice to the biblical view of the nature of man , but at the same time we need to be sure that we really have grasped the biblical view , and not just read our own ideas into it . |
| 12 | This , I believe , does less than justice to their egalitarianism . |
| 13 | Only occasionally did this local sentiment prove stronger than loyalty to the nation , as in 1489 when the levy of taxation for the distant Breton War led to a Yorkshire rising , in which the earl of Northumberland was murdered , and in 1497 when the Cornishmen rebelled against the payment of a subsidy for war with Scotland ( 73 , pp.14 , 15 ) . |