Example sentences of "[verb] more than [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We must do more than simply continue to meet the stringent safety and environmental standards imposed by statute . ’ |
| 2 | They may argue as a point of fact that , to carry on a taxable ‘ business ’ ( or ‘ economic activity ’ — the terminology in the EC 's Sixth Directive , Art 4(1) and ( 2 ) ) and so use the partial exemption rules , the person must do more than just sell a mere , say , £5 worth of food , drink , tobacco , matches , magazines , books , postcards , camera films , audio or video tapes , cassettes , compact discs , records , sunglasses or combs each year . |
| 3 | ‘ I think you 'll do more than just wish me success . |
| 4 | The pictures , on the other hand , must do more than just illustrate the story . |
| 5 | You can do more than just watch a programme once , straight through . |
| 6 | She was more than well acquainted with Lubor 's proclivity to see an invitation to grow amorous where there was none , though since he could n't do more than verbally flirt over the dinner table she could n't see any harm in accepting . |
| 7 | We shall not have a complete theory until we can do more than merely say that ‘ things are as they are because they were as they were . ’ |
| 8 | I told you last night , George , I ca n't do more than merely agree . |
| 9 | But it should be kept in mind that the home visit , for reasons of either vocational guidance or after-care , was intended to do more than simply attend to the school-leaver , who was urged to ‘ put your shoulder to the wheel ’ in order ‘ to reduce to a minimum the number of inefficient citizens ’ . |
| 10 | It 's been talking to OSF about just these kinds of things , and would ( of course ) , like to do more than simply participate in such an effort if it could , though the smoke signals from OSF read simply ‘ message received , ’ for the present . |
| 11 | This allows us to do more than simply check back on the forecasters ' performance on individual countries ; it enables us to assess which forecaster has the best record across all the big economies . |
| 12 | Woken the next morning , yet again , by the early arrival of the twins , there had simply been no opportunity to do more than groggily force herself to rise , dressing herself and the children before completing the packing of all their suitcases . |
| 13 | I would need to do more than just win this game , I would need to annihilate her like the cockerel ; more , I would need to break her completely . |
| 14 | Has he asked you to do more than just bring film of Piper 's records ? ’ |
| 15 | He wanted to do more than just look ; it was at such times that he felt the urge to paint . |
| 16 | Successful time management allows you to do more than merely cope with your study or your work in the office . |
| 17 | However , if artistic representations of my experience are to do more than merely reflect a personal trauma , it is imperative that the work connect with the common experiences of other women in the same or similar situations . |
| 18 | that erm when , in , in all , all the uprisings , the peasant uprisings , when the communists actually tried to propose more than just rent reductions then the peasants tended to lose interest at that . |
| 19 | Access to the king , however , implied more than just access to the fount of patronage ; it also implied the right to give advice on the business of the kingdom . |
| 20 | The financial markets may be in retreat and the pound may be on a slippery slope , but it 's not just the insolvency practitioners and bailiffs that are doing well ; some companies in sectors as diverse as retailing , restaurants and medical equipment are also doing more than just make ends meet . |
| 21 | A psalmist in Biblical times wrote of lifting one 's eyes to the hills but on the day we visited Croagh Patrick on the western seaboard of Co Mayo , Ireland thousands were doing more than just look . |
| 22 | We did more than just have a go when a golfing blue from Cambridge , whose other forte was history , joined the staff . |
| 23 | In this and other cited areas ( such as the development of high-rise flats and the commercial redevelopment of numerous town centres since the 1950s ) , central government did more than simply exhort — it provided financial incentives to help secure compliance . |
| 24 | A chef would never leave a kitchen with food out on the worktops at the end of the day , and front desk is always tidied at the end of a shift , but how many managers do more than simply turn off the computer and go home at the end of a session with their spreadsheet or word processor ? |
| 25 | When philosophers dismiss women as ‘ not-men ’ they frequently do more than simply lump them together with children or lunatics . |
| 26 | No matter — Motian 's small groups have been ‘ led ’ by Frisell 's electric guitar since the 1980s and in practice , Evans 's complex Walkin' up , or the equally complex interplay of instruments and tempi in Five do more than simply survive with either guitar or saxophone ( or both ) leading . |
| 27 | This suggests that speakers do more than simply animate a persona now and again for narrative purposes : they actually switch " selves " from time to time , depending on " who " they want to be at a particular moment , relative to their interlocutor . |
| 28 | Pictures , still and moving , can inform and excite through the eye , making real and vivid what would take a tedium of words to describe ; overhead projectors provide a more efficient , more stimulating and admirably repeatable blackboard ; records and tapes enable words , music and sounds to be replayed at will ; and all can be combined into patterns and programmes that do more than simply reinforce and enliven a lesson given in the traditional style . |
| 29 | Operators also do more than just answer the phone . |
| 30 | Navies all over the world do more than just try and blow each other out of the water , or go on desperate reconnaissance missions as seen on TV . |