Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our French Canadian friends have been very good company for us ( actually , the woman , Dorothy , is Scottish by birth and upbringing ) , and we have been improving our French at the breakfast table , so even if ( as I fear ) we shall come home unable to speak more than ‘ hullo ’ ‘ goodbye ’ and ‘ thank you ’ in Chinese , at least our French will be a bit better . |
| 2 | Squire Mackworth was similarly likely to possess more than this one estate , and sure enough land worth £5 a year is found in Normanton . |
| 3 | Thus wild plants are probably lucky to turn more than about one per cent of the solar energy that bathes them , into organic molecules ; and even agricultural crops , bred for efficiency and well fed , are unlikely to get above five per cent . |
| 4 | It is also difficult to see more than a small part of the action while defending oneself , and difficult to convey to magistrates the naked aggression displayed . |
| 5 | The Ambassador gave a diagonal nod of the head , as if it were slightly impertinent to know more than he did about local matters . |
| 6 | It was now impossible to see more than a few yards . |
| 7 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 8 | One thing just seemed to lead to another , and maybe 1 said more than I should have done . |
| 9 | It is almost certain to earn more than its original — which became the third biggest grossing movie ever — and looks set to edge out top grossing film Terminator II for opening figures . |
| 10 | ‘ I have a stud farm , and as I was saying I 'm usually too shattered to do more than crawl into bed at the end of the day . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Where the returns from criminal work had been too limited to support more than a small number of firms , they had now increased while other firms felt under economic threat . |
| 13 | Sally-Anne never knew precisely how she did it , but the next moment the shorter one was speaking to Rose , and the taller one had his wandering eye on a shrinking Sally-Anne , who was too confused to do more than understand that the Mashers were agreeing to buy supper for Rose and herself — in exchange for what ? |
| 14 | Already several of the rabbits were asleep , crouched uneasily between the thick stems , aware of the chance of danger but too tired to do more than trust to luck . |
| 15 | The evidence for such changes from past excavations is rarely satisfactory and is almost entirely based on the coins , which , in many cases , is far too slight to offer more than a hint . |
| 16 | He was too full to make more than a token protest when Lorton removed the bowl and rolled up the newspaper . |
| 17 | ‘ And the Angus men , I can tell you , were too busy to do more than yell insults at the other Angus men . |
| 18 | She had been caught between relief and disappointment in that moment , but one of the waitresses had materialised at her side to ask a question , and for the rest of the evening she had been too busy to spare more than a passing occasional thought for the man with the still dark eyes . |
| 19 | The Tate is primarily concerned with collecting contemporary art but it is never able to show more than from 23 to 25 per cent . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , too shocked to do more than whisper . |
| 21 | Hatfield 's view was that ‘ the wit is too brittle and the inventiveness too superficial to make more than an ephemeral appeal ’ even though he had been enthusiastic when he first saw it . |
| 22 | With the exception of deeply divided societies such as Northern Ireland , it has tended in practice to be very difficult to attribute more than the most limited amount of crime to any kind of underlying ideological commitment . |
| 23 | Part Two consists of an appraisal of each of the 17 counties — Durham are still too young to warrant more than a mention . |
| 24 | The girls were now too close to their exam , too anxious to do more than lift their faces to him , but out of the tiredness and filth of lime he could be seen looking often at their heads bent over the lamplit pages in what looked close to melancholy and sunken reflection . |