Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] more than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay had never known it to work for more than weeks . |
| 2 | What moves me very deeply about primitive peoples is that they still attach an enormous importance to a certain kind of communication which we have lost ; and that is that they allow the being of the person they are with to communicate with more than words . |
| 3 | Of course , the success of this lesson has to do with more than structure ( indeed , I am not suggesting that structure is all a teacher needs to know about ! ) . |
| 4 | Yet Mr Salinas 's government will have to rely on more than contacts ; tight money and high real interest rates are likely for the predictable future . |
| 5 | It would certainly be naive just to assume that nerve cells are the same in molluscs as in people , but fortunately it is possible to rely on more than assumption . |