Example sentences of "[vb infin] [det] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | $800 for Solaris 2.0-on-Sparc sounds expensive compared to USL 's $350 for Unix SVR4.2 ( Destiny ) , but SunSoft claims such a price would buy little more than a kernel from USL , and is virtually useless in such form . |
| 2 | Men and women work all day and at the end of the week those in waged work get a wage packet which does n't buy much more than the necessities of life . |
| 3 | interested in English nobody , sh did n't know any more than the girl next door did she ? |
| 4 | Do not repeat this more than a couple of times in rapid succession however , because otherwise the dog may start to interpret this as a game . |
| 5 | A concours Mk 1 will fetch much more than a ropy Mk 2 , perhaps six years ( and maybe 100,000 miles ) its junior . |
| 6 | Of course the apparent benefits to the region are offset by the inevitable losses in jobs and the suspicion that in years , perhaps months , the company will not be able to sustain two major broadcasting centres and that Newcastle will become little more than a satellite of Leeds . |
| 7 | The frequency is chosen to make sure that the core reaches saturation at each alteration , but does not spend any more than a short time in this condition so as to maximise the final output signal ; the circuit should produce as many saturation signals as possible . |
| 8 | " You 'll get a written report later , of course , but it wo n't have any more than the preliminary findings , because there does n't seem much to find . |
| 9 | When the Queen takes her place in the Church of Christ the Cornerstone tomorrow , it will mean much more than the dedication of another place of worship . |
| 10 | To begin with they travel only at night and often they may not go much more than a mile . |
| 11 | They were a family living in Rome for better or for worse , that would n't change any more than the world would change . |
| 12 | To outsiders , the two events may seem little more than an international organization at work , but for Amnesty members these events are charged with significance . |
| 13 | He could n't afford much more than a set of plastic rings let alone five gold ones . |
| 14 | If trains on a branch line are cut then the railways may lose much more than the income from fares on the branch . |
| 15 | With the failure of these discussions on economic union the Nordic states were left with the limited form of cooperation to which they had agreed in 1946 , and also with Uniscan , a loose , consultative structure they had entered into , albeit reluctantly , with Britain under the latter 's urging , but one which would involve little more than a multilateral attempt at coordinating economic policies . |
| 16 | ( In these cases flashbacks may involve little more than a ‘ graininess ’ of vision under anxiety provoking circumstances . ) |