Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downes himself could not stay for more than a few minutes . |
| 2 | It is characteristic of the novel that climate and vegetation should count for no less than its comedy of manners , in which the Jewish businessman Harry de Tunja plays an enjoyable part , and that neither of these two elements , so far as they can be distinguished from the rest of the novel , should count for less than the opinions which they help to convey . |
| 3 | The infant Elizabeth will learn that being promised a sweet for behaving herself will result in more than the mere probability of its arrival ; the penny will have dropped when she realises that a promise entitles her to the reward — it is her due , to which she has a right . |
| 4 | Modrow did not return with more than a commitment to set up a joint commission of experts to consider monetary union ( which first met on Feb. 20 in East Berlin ) . |
| 5 | He wrote a book expounding 1 Corinthians 7 to imply that the apostle was not really defending marriage , since his arguments fatally conceded that it was not the most perfect state for the believer , and no true believer could aspire to less than the perfection to which God called . |
| 6 | It was the sort of distance that Olympic sprinters can cover in less than a minute on their lap of honour . |
| 7 | Etching times may vary from less than a minute to over half an hour . |
| 8 | If the adventure had to end , no one among the HFS Loans League side dared to imagine that it might end in less than a month 's time in front of a few thousand at Spotland . |
| 9 | A failure to understand this essential point could lead to more than a trade war . |
| 10 | Eisenhower 's comments to reporters on the outcome at Geneva may hint at more than a desire to present a brave face to the world . |
| 11 | They spread between people by coughing , sneezing and kissing but they can not live for more than a few seconds outside the body . |
| 12 | Conservative backbenchers put pressure on the government to provide safeguards for households which would lose by more than a certain amount . |
| 13 | The heat did not last for more than a few seconds , and when it had passed , Ciparis was left in an awful solitude , his cries for help going unanswered as the city burned above him . |
| 14 | It can last for less than a day or up to three days , varying with individuals , breed , age , degree of contact with a male and geographical location . |
| 15 | Cabra , in which Bates has a stake of nearly 30 per cent , may settle for less than the £22.8 million if it takes into account other shareholders in its subsidiary company SB Properties , which owns the football ground . |
| 16 | After all , why settle for less than the very best ? |
| 17 | If not , should heads settle for less than the whole of their ideal or keep on pressing their colleagues ? |
| 18 | Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any . |
| 19 | The government 's North Sea oil take is depressed at present but will be on a rising trend as production begins to rise again to its 1985 peak and could account for more than a third of public spending . |
| 20 | Although the numbers of such changes associated with moves are not large , and they can not account for more than a very small part of the differential in unemployment rates between the two groups , the sale of a large proportion of public housing to sitting tenants who are more likely to be employed than the general local authority sector population will have contributed to the increase in the unemployment rate differential referred to earlier . |
| 21 | It must be emphasized , however , that whether the criterion be the number of courses or the number of teacher-days devoted to this topic , the development of productive links with parents and the community did not account for more than a one-hundredth part of the Authority 's in-service programme during the evaluation period . |
| 22 | In kung fu one can not train for more than a few months without hearing the phrase ‘ chi kung ’ , repeated time and time again . |
| 23 | Mike would never agree to less than a six per cent royalty . |
| 24 | Water rates will also increase by more than the rate of inflation . |
| 25 | The rate multiplier is set each year in England and Wales by central government and can not rise by more than the annual rate of inflation . |
| 26 | It is set annually by the Government and can not rise by more than the rate of inflation . |