Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elitism has to mean more than this — even in its modern , broader sense — for it to be of analytical use , so modern elite theory has tended to argue for a plurality of elites which may interact or compete in a variety of ways . |
| 2 | In reality , neither side expected to deploy more than about 100 bombers . |
| 3 | Consequently , unless carried out carefully and under constant supervision , maintenance tended to cost more than it should . |
| 4 | The referee , however , allowed play to go on with Everton prostrate and protesting and when the cross came over the defence seemed to use less than legal means to stop Chapman reaching it . |
| 5 | ‘ Because , by my reckoning , payment tends to get more than a little physical . ’ |
| 6 | The Labour leader has to do that after the Budget — an art Neil Kinnock never mastered — but it falls to the Shadow Chancellor to reply to the Autumn Statement . |
| 7 | The ever-familiar profile seems to derive more than a smidgeon of alternative inspiration from Aria 's Magna-series , as in fact does the whole bass . |
| 8 | Without commitment faith seems to cost more than we bargained for . |
| 9 | But a complete justification of authority has to do more than to provide valid reasons for its acceptance . |
| 10 | If the authority plans to spend more than this , the block grant is reduced and the extra costs of the expenditure have to be met from other service cuts or higher rates . |
| 11 | ‘ So there we are , ’ he went on , and his voice seemed to carry more than ever . |
| 12 | The theory of limited government appears to demand more than simple majority rule . |
| 13 | Greenfield tries to claim more than this , as do Hildyard and Olson . |
| 14 | I , I pity the poor typist has to transcribe this as and when if it happens , ha , ha she 's going to get some very strange noises , including me having a pee and flushing the loo before lunch , what have you , I forgot to switch it off . |
| 15 | The debate on the Bill to bring back whipping was a thoroughly undignified affair in which the principles of the matter seemed to count less than considerations such as the size and weight of the flogging instrument to be used : calculations made necessary no less by the desire to limit the discretion of ‘ judges infected by maudlin sentimentality ’ , than by the requirement that it should measure up to the brutes who were ‘ so degraded , that they could only be deterred by forcible appeals to their fear of physical pain ’ . |
| 16 | In conducting his social analysis Harré seems to give little if any attention to play , games and the arts . |
| 17 | The weeks passed and Sarah and Maggie took in washing to pay the rent , but there was never enough money left to buy more than bread and a few vegetables . |
| 18 | How many people at breakfast time bother to do more than turn the set on , knowing that both channels are transmitting roughly similar programmes ? |
| 19 | And thus the reader has to go more than the usual way he goes to understand what he 's looking at . |
| 20 | I could ask my mother to try to remember more than she 's told me , but it 's a long shot . ’ |
| 21 | People in prison get to shower more than I do . ’ |
| 22 | The Jeanneau family seems to have more than a little to do with the founding of a number of yacht building companies in France other than that which currently bears its name . |
| 23 | It is really impossible for someone not technically qualified , or who was not at the time encouraged to understand more than a very limited aspect of its functions , to analyse the workings of the apparatus . |
| 24 | If a deviant decides to produce more than the group norm , then all members of the group are threatened . |
| 25 | He had previously made much play of the fact that the Labour party wanted to do more than the Government to ensure that women were paid properly . |