Example sentences of "[verb] more than [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Youth project develops more than camera skill |
| 2 | Money Smith is ideal for those who want more than cheque book program but who do n't want to foot the bill for a multi-module accounting system . |
| 3 | The luxury shower — costing more than Princess Diana 's whirlpool bath -is part of a £26,000 spruce-up of Chief Executive Mike Smith 's office . |
| 4 | You can do more than play games : you can add them , multiply them , and develop them to a remarkable depth . |
| 5 | Subscribers to the new ‘ low-cost ’ mobile phones could end up paying more than business users |
| 6 | if the Purchaser believes it is paying more than market value , it would be better off claiming damages in tort rather than contract ; and vice versa ; |
| 7 | that we 're not actually and the thing is , with advertising here , we 're selling more than Christmas crackers . |
| 8 | London boroughs spent more than other metropolitan boroughs , which in turn spent more than county authorities . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If you wish to do more than pay lip service to communication , consider these two key questions : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That takes more than management expertise : it takes a sort of vision , too . |
| 13 | It takes more than design flair and understanding to produce a leisure complex . |
| 14 | Badges make more than pin money |
| 15 | Even if the Carlists were unlikely ever to possess more than nuisance value , the Falange , with its wider appeal and rapid growth-rate , was a different matter . |
| 16 | I used to be Harry Maxim , then I was me and Jenny , and now I just do n't know and it 'll take more than lemon tea and a pink silk handkerchief in my sleeve and reading Goethe over breakfast to tell me . |
| 17 | In relative terms , people forced to rely on public transport pay more than car users for their mobility . |
| 18 | In 1958 Professor Richard Titmuss argued that social services included more than Welfare State services such as education , social security or the NHS . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Local authorities are expected to pay more than lip service to this requirement . |
| 21 | The Prime Minister gave his go-ahead at a meeting with the Chancellor , Treasury Chief Secretary Michael Portillo , Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Employment Minister Michael Forsyth , after being told that doctors , especially in inner city areas , sign people on for the benefit because it pays more than dole money . |
| 22 | The Prime Minister gave his go-ahead at a meeting with the Chancellor , Treasury Chief Secretary Michael Portillo , Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Employment Minister Michael Forsyth , after being told that doctors , especially in inner city areas , sign people on for the benefit because it pays more than dole money . |
| 23 | However , this book does more than foreground girls ' experience and the culture of femininity . |
| 24 | If understanding the way children think , how they respond to experience and how adults can identify the messages which children give through their behaviour , are central to the teacher 's art , then initial teacher training should offer more than lip service to classroom experience . |
| 25 | But if this is to prove more than gesture politics , a number of challenges must be faced . |