Example sentences of "[verb] more than [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither country has more than the sketchiest experience of democracy . |
| 2 | If you wish to write more than the simplest assembler code programs for the Z88 , you will need a considerable amount of technical information about the machine . |
| 3 | The casket was an idea introduced from the United States in the 1870s and does not , therefore , make more than the briefest possible appearance in this history of the English trade . |
| 4 | Second , it seems on this criterion that we shall never have more than the slenderest of reasons to believe that we know something ; for in believing this we are believing that when all the truths are in , our justification will remain , and it looks as if much more is required to support that belief than is required to support an ordinary claim to know . |
| 5 | He knows the routine , he appreciates the need , if without relishing it , he is too much the practised professional to show more than the briefest irritation . |
| 6 | Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared ; for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer . |
| 7 | Few of the newcomers know any Hebrew and few have more than the vaguest idea about Israel . |