Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaders may personally benefit more than the led but all share in the spin-offs from competent leadership . |
| 2 | He hopes to show that , although we can not know quite what the former say we can , nevertheless we can still know more than the latter allow . |
| 3 | ‘ You ca n't possibly do more than an hour , not after a full day 's rehearsal . |
| 4 | perhaps this was because he could hardly see more than a yard in front of his face . |
| 5 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 6 | Does that mean , the maximum of ten per cent , you would n't ever get more than the eleven hundred , or |
| 7 | I 'm sure it 'll cost more than a quid but seeing as you ca n't like get more than a mile long piece anyway so |
| 8 | These do n't usually rise more than a couple of hundred metres before falling back along parabolic paths . |
| 9 | Coun. Ian Paterson ( C ) said he was worried the Dolphin Centre would eventually cost more than the £4.5m. allocated . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Changes in these attitudes and practices will be the result of a long political process which will certainly take more than a century to work out , and even then will probably compress the time which it took Europe to work through comparable processes . |
| 13 | As a result , the individual may retain only a very small percentage of the extra income earned and , in some cases , may actually lose more than the extra income earned . |
| 14 | They would never get more than a phrase completed before an argument would break out as to the merit of either the words or the music . |