Example sentences of "[verb] more than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | According to Bill Martin , economist at UBS-Phillips & Drew : ‘ The only thing the Chancellor fears more than the currency speculators are the rows of blue rinses at Blackpool next week ’ . |
| 32 | He had previously made much play of the fact that the Labour party wanted to do more than the Government to ensure that women were paid properly . |
| 33 | The grand design of a single market for Europe requires more than the guarantee of free trade found in the Treaty of Rome . |
| 34 | The solution of the crofting problem requires more than the input of money into agriculture More than the input of money into industry . |
| 35 | The description is saved as part of the worksheet , not as a separate file , so the filename you choose can contain more than the regulation eight letters . |
| 36 | But the team who led the table with an eight-point lead over the third-placed club in February and had two games in hand are surely lacking more than the rub of the green . |
| 37 | The ladies of our period of whom we know more than the name were almost always ladies of exceptional character or talent , who force themselves on our notice partly at least for this reason . |
| 38 | With these decisions Darwin became more than the protégé of Lyell . |
| 39 | So it , it is hard to say , erm and I would n't like to make a prediction except that I think the number of postgraduate students may have fallen more than the number of undergraduate students , and that we may see already even in this first year erm a substantial not altogether healthy change in the national makeup of overseas students . |
| 40 | A team has a mix of people who contribute in different but complementary ways thus achieving synergy , ie the team produces more than the sum of its individuals . |
| 41 | I want you to see more than the cow . |
| 42 | No one realised more than the Queen that her children were deeply flawed and that the monarchy might be better served if that generation was skipped altogether . |
| 43 | But there is little doubt in my mind that the future will only go to the large company if that large company is really able to release the energies and the synergies that ought to be a part of the grand design and make more than the sum of the parts . |
| 44 | The cobweb model highlights the complexity of global interconnections , but globalization involves more than the proliferation of links . |
| 45 | The exterior of the rock consequently expands more than the interior and stresses are set up . |
| 46 | It will take more than the ratification of the treaty to restore Britain 's European credentials . |
| 47 | It will take more than the prospect of weight savings to prompt them to abandon this safe method . |
| 48 | It is n't wrong to feel angry , but if you let it out in ways like this , the distress will increase for both of you , and you risk losing more than the chance to be a mother . |
| 49 | Every week he needed more than the week before , and to get a full hit he had to inject . |
| 50 | Her children were both obviously too little to understand more than the tone of her voice , and as she dressed them to go out with her to the shops she was saying " and when Daddy comes home , we 'll show him , shall we ? |
| 51 | It offered more than the Curragh . |
| 52 | This meant more than the elimination of exploitation , which had already been achieved in the Stalinist period : it meant the elimination of the oppression of man by man , which could be achieved only by the working class itself and not by a bureaucracy on its behalf . |
| 53 | Now , Harry was certain , Cornelius meant more than the length of time a middle-aged man should give himself to recover from influenza . |
| 54 | At stake lay more than the future of the English garrison in the town which the French were besieging and blockading by land and sea . |
| 55 | It is not possible to withdraw more than the amount in the account so you avoid any risk of running up an overdraft . |
| 56 | And if you 're buying the car on a loan or HP agreement , you might well owe more than the car is worth — your loss again ! |
| 57 | In a sense he was singing siren songs to that part of himself which had got stuck in the old , dead forms , where the artist mattered more than the content . |
| 58 | This might imply that Thucydides knew more than the Assembly did . |
| 59 | However , we will not pay more than the market value of the package . |
| 60 | As a friend with three children at public school put it , ‘ My last term 's bills totalled more than the price of the wife 's new care ’ . |