Example sentences of "[verb] more than [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The invitations to foreign races started coming in after he ran ‘ about 162 miles ’ in a 24-race in Chorley , and Zarei has made the most of them , often running ultra races consecutively and by doing so he has more than proved a point about his approach to running . |
| 2 | I do not pretend that these notions can do more than offer a way of thinking about the quantum world with some hope of doing justice both to the idiosyncrasy of its ways and also to the beautiful structure of the microworld which has been laid bare by the discoveries of elementary particle physics . |
| 3 | In practical terms , selling a house through an estate agent can not possibly cost more than using a solicitor . |
| 4 | With the need for speedy disposal of the dead — and that organized by others than the coffin-makers — together with a dwindling supply of wood in the face of more work than they could handle , few involved in the trade were going to do more than fabricate a utilitarian box of standard shape . |
| 5 | Effective management of a county interest required the politician to do more than strike a bargain in which a vote , or votes , was the return for immediate patronage . |
| 6 | In offices with E-mail systems a fax can be copied to hundreds of different destinations without having to do more than make a few entries on the key-board . |
| 7 | John Major will need to do more than provide a discreet crossing from worthy words to anti-social acts . |
| 8 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |
| 9 | There was nothing he enjoyed more than seeing a couple of his subordinates at each other 's throats . |
| 10 | Learning a language , as Halliday ( 1984 ) and Hymes ( 1971 ) amongst others have pointed out , involves more than acquiring a grammatical system that will generate well-formed sentences . |
| 11 | This viewpoint seems to have prevented him from doing more than cast a supercilious eye over the book . |
| 12 | ‘ Literacy means more than learning a code or writing a word . |
| 13 | Rather than being sustained by a vibrant , developing , experimental tradition , the revolutions of modernism may simply have been absorbed by an engrained , infrangible , realist tradition which rarely does more than appropriate a few of the more alluring additions Joyce and others made to ‘ the international store of literary technique ’ . |