Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] more than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any basic change in the executive branch of British government will need something more than the type of structural reform of the civil service proposed by the Fulton Committee . |
| 2 | Since the poetic structure includes only those elements which evoke a response in the reader , it is this response that must be taken as the analyst 's starting point ; the linguist as such can not tell us what is interesting or important about a work ( ‘ No grammatical analysis of a poem can give us more than the grammar of the poem ’ ( p. 213 ) ) . |
| 3 | They do n't do anything more than the , than necessitation to , |
| 4 | The court accepted at least part of that argument , allowing that the sculptures may contain something more than the original work . |
| 5 | Maxwell still thinks he can run this himself , pay up and leave with his daughter rather than keep his money and have the case come to court so that his affairs might have to be examined — that could cost him more than the ransom . |
| 6 | It occurs as that in Judges 9.9 and 13 , and here it might indicate nothing more than the all-embracing nature of the struggles which Jacob has engaged in during the course of his life . |
| 7 | Beryl needed firm handling but losing father and brother inside four days must mean something more than the prospect of a secure income . |
| 8 | And the new job as Guides chief executive will pay her more than the £45,000 a year she got from British Gas . |
| 9 | Even when a set of stunt lines have been very carefully matched to each , it is inevitable that line tension will stretch one more than the other . |
| 10 | The high frequency with which oesophageal mucosal disease occurs in asthmatics is consistent with both the vagal reflex theory and the microaspiration theory , and does not support one more than the other . |
| 11 | This would involve something more than the counselling which EWOs routinely provide in truancy cases . |