Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll need more than a bottle of rum to get through this disaster of a voyage ! |
| 2 | Negotiation and discussion will achieve more than a row , but if a clash is unavoidable , explain to them why you were shouting . |
| 3 | ‘ You ca n't possibly do more than an hour , not after a full day 's rehearsal . |
| 4 | ‘ To make you happy , Schätzchen , I would give more than a Brancusi , ’ Thomas said softly . |
| 5 | I would n't hesitate about going along to another of the band 's gigs where , it is to be hoped , the audience would give more than a round of applause for the amount of hard work put into the show . |
| 6 | Whilst out selling with sales manager Anne King [ and sold £1,500 in two days ] , they had an appointment with a certain Mr Gomez who could n't speak more than a couple of words of English . |
| 7 | Then through the window you could see it-smaller than a Concord and almost completely open with its canvas side-curtains rolled up and fastened-just turning out of the yard , and the next moment the jingling , rattling sound was right out front . |
| 8 | They do say that essential oils will often work quicker than a tablet . |
| 9 | perhaps this was because he could hardly see more than a yard in front of his face . |
| 10 | Her shoulder-length hair obscured her face , though Alice moved position to try and see more than a slab of cheek . |
| 11 | This , so Dobry believed , would relieve the overloaded planning machine to deal more thoroughly with the major and/or controversial applications ( which he suggested would constitute less than a half and , it was to be hoped , only a third of the total ) . |
| 12 | She must look worse than a dowd . |
| 13 | Also , the cost of services has to be borne , in the main , from central or local government coffers , because most older people can not meet more than a fraction of the costs of the high levels of labour-intensive care they need . |
| 14 | I do n't feel I can face more than a snack in this heat … ’ |
| 15 | 6 October , 1835 FELIX MENDELSSOHN writes to his family from Leipzig : ‘ The day after I accompanied the Hensels to Delitzsch , Chopin arrived here ; he would not stay more than a day , and so we spent it together entirely , and played music . |
| 16 | Do n't eat more than a bird , I daresay . ’ |
| 17 | Claudia could n't eat more than a morsel of the beef Roman had ordered . |
| 18 | At tea breaks and lunchtime I never saw him eat more than a bar of chocolate or a biscuit . |
| 19 | And Hardy 's were probably the best known fishing tackle shop in the world and it got into the hands of one of the Hardy 's brothers and he said , ‘ May we market it under your name ? ’ and I said , ‘ My God , I 'd rather have that than a knighthood ’ — this was some years ago — and then Hardy 's were rationalized , which means of course that everything costs twice as much and there was n't as much in the shop . |
| 20 | Space does not permit more than a summary of the aspects the would-be consultant needs to consider jointly to ensure both a good beginning and optimum development for such a group , and readers are therefore referred to the guidelines offered in detail elsewhere ( cf Hanko 1985/7 ) . |
| 21 | Consequently the June ‘ xuechao ’ was contained , but not before it had seriously worried the leadership and the students had made a number of important points which would resurface less than a year later . |
| 22 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 23 | Changes in these attitudes and practices will be the result of a long political process which will certainly take more than a century to work out , and even then will probably compress the time which it took Europe to work through comparable processes . |
| 24 | There could be a need to check forensic evidence , for example , or to prevent a suspect absconding , or to travel to a far-away police station where the investigation was being conducted , and any of these could take more than a day . |
| 25 | ‘ In places this size , you come away saying it would take more than a day to see them , ’ said Mr Craig . |
| 26 | Should n't take more than a couple of weeks at most … |
| 27 | There are plenty of packages around for under £150 and they should n't take more than a couple of days to master . |
| 28 | ‘ The BNP contends that it will take more than a Race Equality Council to smooth over the cracks of the fragmenting edifice that is the multi-racial society . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The BNP contends it will take more than a Race Equality Council to smooth over the cracks of the fragmenting edifice that is the multi-racial society . ’ |
| 30 | Should n't take more than a fortnight . |