Example sentences of "[verb] more than [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , it is possible to obtain more than enough protein to meet requirements without using animal sources at all . |
| 2 | Not all the songs played during the evening hailed from the album with the set already suggesting Eddi has more than enough material to record and release another album at fairly short notice . |
| 3 | Although well-made clubs ought to last a lifetime , I have already owned 16 different sets and tried more than that number in a futile search for The Touch . |
| 4 | That way , any bets taken could be put in a bank or something and earn more than enough interest to pay out the sad scum twat who made the bet . |
| 5 | Well now would them girl would them girls say , she must have said more than that mother . |
| 6 | His record pay-off cost more than this year 's dividends to all the shareholders in Murdoch 's News International company . |
| 7 | He realised that we can see more than half way round a small cylinder and that three views are available : that of the right eye , that of the left eye , and the total sensation , giving three outlines . |
| 8 | Valerie Jones made her excuses and left — she had had more than enough coffee . |
| 9 | Consequently she has had more than enough practice at fielding some of the more banal of my questions . |
| 10 | He 'd had more than enough practice to become an expert . |
| 11 | You 've had more than enough time to tell me , and by keeping quiet since we met again you 've been effectively lying . ’ |
| 12 | Well I do n't think we owe it to them we just delivered them a nice big salary and they 've got more than enough work to do . |
| 13 | It is northing more than another attack aimed at the trade unions under the government 's Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill , and takes absolutely no account of the additional hardship it will impose on our members . |
| 14 | The Russian ambassador in Kiev has described Ukrainian independence to other diplomats there as a temporary phenomenon , unlikely to last more than another year and a half . |
| 15 | This place kills and maims more than any other . |
| 16 | Damn sight more than that boor behind the bar . |
| 17 | It is not our wish to profit from such assignment , and in the unlikely event of our recovering more than such compensation and costs , any excess will be paid to the injured clients . |
| 18 | They 've done as much as they can anyway and even 1,800 Geordies will make more than enough noise , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 19 | Farmers Group , the American insurer it bought last year , showed a surplus of £205million in the nine months to September — and should now make more than enough money in the full year to cover the cost of its acquisition . |
| 20 | Farmers Group , the American insurer it bought last year , showed a surplus of £205million in the nine months to September — and should now make more than enough money in the full year to cover the cost of its acquisition . |
| 21 | Around eighty galleries have confirmed so far that they will be attending more than this time last year and the organisers are presenting a positive front in the light of the art market recession . |
| 22 | If they drink sensibly , then we will have more than enough income ? |
| 23 | We 'd have more than enough time to catch up , even overtake them . ’ |
| 24 | Clean , it was an absolute dream ; the EQ offered more than enough scope to produce anything from a cutting Telecaster to a rich acoustic tone , and with the help of a short delay and pitchshift I put a sound onto tape which I 'd defy anyone not to recognise as an acoustic guitar — and I 'd actually used the Patrick Eggle New York model reviewed elsewhere in this issue . |
| 25 | But here the descriptions play an important role , and serious students would do well to read them carefully ; for not only do they tell more than any photograph ever can , including technical details of construction , but , when studied with the photographs , or in front of the objects themselves , they are invaluable in helping to focus on the many significant details which might otherwise go unnoticed . |
| 26 | If the wind is behind it , you can get more than enough standing twenty yards away . |
| 27 | And especially the beloved Charles Dickens , who perhaps did more than any man in his century — including the great legislators and engineers — to awaken a new conscience in his fellow men . |
| 28 | Thus was made an archbishop who did more than any Archbishop of Canterbury since Stephen Langton of Magna Carta to make the Church more free in its relation to the State . |
| 29 | He met C.L.R. James with his individual brand of Marxism and pan-Africanism ( James had broken with the Comintern ) , and he studied the writings of Marcus Garvey which ‘ did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm ’ . |
| 30 | In recent times Nicklaus probably did more than any player in sustaining the aura of Augusta . |