Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [prep] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The form book insists Jodami will need to improve by more than a stone if he is to trouble The Fellow . |
| 2 | but then if you read the report of the match it said they could have won by more than that , they did all playing they were just unlucky , but he 's pleased with the result |
| 3 | Pearce could have done with more than the seven years he had at British Aerospace to achieve the kind of management culture he would have liked to have bequeathed to the company . |
| 4 | She spoke as if she should have known about more than the dying town . |
| 5 | By then legal costs alone will have run to more than half the price of the toilet . |
| 6 | He works this kind of stiff-upper-lip colonialist nostalgia very well , of course — if only the material he chose had been less plodding and lightweight , he might have emerged as more than a typecast cypher . |
| 7 | He can , of course , also make a payment into court , but the difficulties of calculating it are obvious and he would probably have to pay in more than the value of the claim for immediate damages to tempt the plaintiff . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Only the better-off could afford to travel at more than a walking pace in eighteenth-century England — unless , that is , they had access to a riding horse . |