Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bureaucrat is assumed as a general rule to know more than the sponsor about factor costs and production processes involved in the bureau 's services . |
| 2 | Always be willing to ask questions of the material and demand to know more than the text is willing to divulge about people , places and events . |
| 3 | Even with Sackville 's favour Bowyer failed to secure more than the reversion in 1597 to the clerkship of the parliaments , the successful candidate averring that he was unfit ‘ by reason of a great imperfection he hath in his speech ’ . |
| 4 | In the area of booking contracts a form of damages has developed which may enable the guest to obtain more than the value of the contract . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The example of an infant 's fear of strangers shows , as we move from the detailed anatomy of behaviour to the rich , ambiguous concepts we use to make sense of everyday social intercourse , that the particular acts referred to matter less than the way they are organised , just as our interest in houses , rarely focuses on mud or wood or bricks . |
| 7 | I want you to see more than the cow . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | It is not possible to withdraw more than the amount in the account so you avoid any risk of running up an overdraft . |
| 10 | Industries want to be left alone so that they can continue to export more than the Japanese . |
| 11 | According to Mikoian himself , the USSR insisted that the Cubans buy Soviet goods if they wanted Moscow to continue purchasing their sugar , and adamantly refused to pay more than the world market price for Cuban produce ( Mikoian in Cuba ( Crosscurrents press , New York , 1960 ) , in Boughton : 1974 , p. 450 ) . |
| 12 | Workers in Northumberland are among the poorest paid and twice as likely to earn less than the average for workers throughout the European Community according to a survey by the Northern Region Low Pay Unit . |
| 13 | In most cases a man earning £300 per week would be expected to spend more than the man earning £100 per week , and so the transactions demand should be larger for the former . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Whether or not we accept the particular characterization offered by opponent-process theory , it seems that conditioned suppression training is likely to involve more than the formation of a CS-shock association . |
| 16 | If a deviant decides to produce more than the group norm , then all members of the group are threatened . |