Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] do [art] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll do no more work today ! ’ |
| 2 | Much of the time , I could do no more than lie on the wheelbarrow to hold it down . |
| 3 | I could do no more than prowl about him . |
| 4 | But I will do no more than offer a few remarks about their rights and wrongs , focusing instead on the most productive ways in which teachers can develop and promote their own positions . |
| 5 | I can do no more for his memory than to extend that same faith to his son . ’ |
| 6 | I can do no more than endorse the statement made by the proposer and would just like to formally second the proposal resolution number two . |
| 7 | The evolution of mammals after the Cretaceous was both extremely rapid and very complex , and we can do no more than give the roughest sketch here . |
| 8 | Its universality as far as human life is concerned depends on when it actually happened , and we can do no more than guess at the date . |
| 9 | So I think we may have to take this as part of the council meeting when we get a report back , cos obviously , there 's a degree of urgency in whatever we do about this , but I can suggest that we can do no more than report back to the next council meeting that we 've discussed this , and that it is in solicitor 's hands . |
| 10 | I mean I 've had Fife College on the phone as well saying you know why ca n't we do it and Alec we 're really now we can do no more until Napier come up if for some reason Napier fell down on the job then I think I 've got enough knowledge about what we 're doing now but I would start running it round the other colleges including Telford who are doing a distance learning course |
| 11 | They might come and see how competent she was to run it if they chose , but short of abducting her , they could do no more than advise . |
| 12 | It might require them to behave authoritatively , submissively , wickedly or shrewdly ; the role might be labelled explorer , prime minister , designer or archaeologist , but they will do no more than adapt functionally to the situation of the drama just as they would adapt to roles required in a game — just as they once learnt to adapt to the limited number of roles imposed on them in real life . |
| 13 | You will realise that words of comfort like this can solve no problems for her ; they can do no more than bathe the wound she has sustained , but she will be badly in need of something to cling on to and because they are spoken by someone who loves her they may be exactly what she wants to hear when she is trying to reassemble herself and face the future . |
| 14 | However , they can do no more than recommend the best of the available options and even in expert hands the treatment of anorexia nervous must still be considered unsatisfactory . |
| 15 | ‘ It may do no more than further entrench the conspiracy of silence , ’ Armstrong said . |
| 16 | But the essential distinction remains : whether the court should positively order treatment to be given or not to be given , or whether it should do no more than consider whether or not to authorise it , where authority is needed . |
| 17 | But unless John realises that he 's preventing himself getting the success he desires , through thinking that he does n't deserve it , he 'll do no more than keep cruising along . |
| 18 | Blake was back in Moscow where he could do no more harm . |
| 19 | The doctor , a man named Champney , realised he could do no more for her but , on hearing of the stranger ( Mary Ashley did not know Tawell , but described him as a Quaker ) , he set out to trace him . |
| 20 | They say here that he will do no more of these questionless immobile heads as his designs begin to set the immobile against the mobile . |
| 21 | When you have read through a book of entertainment , you know it , and it can do no more for you ; but a book of science is inexhaustible . ’ |
| 22 | He can do no more than to respect and serve them both.l |