Example sentences of "[to-vb] more than the [noun] " 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 | In just the same way , the Lord 's prayer trusts that God will provide our daily bread ; He is n't asked to provide more than the basics . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I want you to see more than the cow . |
| 8 | But the author ( and readers ) will want some written commentary to accompany the figures and here caution must be exercised not to claim more than the figures warrant . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | It is possible to withdraw more than the £50 daily limit , as long as you have sufficient funds , by going into any branch of The Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 11 | It is not possible to withdraw more than the amount in the account so you avoid any risk of running up an overdraft . |
| 12 | A Roger Rabbit-style cartoon , Evil Toons , released on video this month , promotes itself like this : ‘ Innocently the four girls unleash a nymphomaniacal cartoon monster from the pages of a spell-book which intends to scare more than the girls ' pants off . ’ |
| 13 | Industries want to be left alone so that they can continue to export more than the Japanese . |
| 14 | Carter says budget constraints mean it is quite a battle to put up the all-important 30 per cent , but he hopes to get more than the £16,870 received last year . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When there is a great wish for something to be true but the evidence for it is not yet complete , it can require great strength to resist the pressure to say more than the data warrant . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If a deviant decides to produce more than the group norm , then all members of the group are threatened . |