Example sentences of "[det] [verb] more [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A management which does not do this betrays more than the shareholders in the business ; it betrays the employees and the nation as a whole . |
| 2 | This meant more than the elimination of exploitation , which had already been achieved in the Stalinist period : it meant the elimination of the oppression of man by man , which could be achieved only by the working class itself and not by a bureaucracy on its behalf . |
| 3 | The need for sleep varies from person to person — some require more than the average eight hours sleep a night be perfectly normal . |
| 4 | Few of the newcomers know any Hebrew and few have more than the vaguest idea about Israel . |
| 5 | Her fingers dug deep into his shoulders as she clung to him , caught up in a maelstrom of sensation , too stunned by the sheer beauty of it all to register more than the most fleeting second of pain . |
| 6 | 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 ? |