Example sentences of "[to-vb] more 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 I want you to see more than the cow .
7 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 ?
8 It is not possible to withdraw more than the amount in the account so you avoid any risk of running up an overdraft .
9 Industries want to be left alone so that they can continue to export more than the Japanese .
10 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 ) .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 If a deviant decides to produce more than the group norm , then all members of the group are threatened .
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