Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , the immunologist from the clinic went in and evaluated Ron and basically told him that he had … that he was not going to live more than the most a few weeks , and he could have control over the time of his death if he wished , and that was his decision to make , and he should think about it and talk it over with me . |
| 2 | The position of the health professional — doctor , health visitor , or nurse — is not to pretend that their bit of health promotion is going to have more than a small additive effect to all the other necessary inputs , and they should be aware that they may be wasting their time if the other inputs are not there . |
| 3 | But although we are entitled , in our theory of the origin of life , to spend a maximum ration of luck amounting , perhaps , to odds of 100 billion billion to one against , my hunch is that we are n't going to need more than a small fraction of that ration . |
| 4 | That pocket of life was plainly still some distance away , yet it was apparent to Jaq that the instrument was attempting to distinguish more than the single sharp blip that would represent Carnelian alone . |
| 5 | since last March in the number of patients having to wait more than a year ? |
| 6 | Newcastle North MP Doug Henderson has written to city health chiefs , highlighting cases in which people are having to wait more than a year . |
| 7 | EYE patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
| 8 | MORE eye patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
| 9 | Starting to feel more than a fraction disgruntled that he 'd been in Prague when she 'd called before — on the right day and the right time — Fabia strove hard to keep what she was feeling out of her look . |
| 10 | JANSHER KHAN , who won back the world title here on Saturday , is in danger of losing some or all of his $15,000 ( £9,500 ) prize money this week , for failing to make more than a brief appearance at the official dinner afterwards . |
| 11 | The enlightened bureaucrats who were primarily responsible for drawing up the legislation of 1861 may not have achieved everything for which they were striving , but they were undoubtedly trying to achieve more than the modernization of the gentry 's sources of income or the revivification of the state machine . |