Example sentences of "[vb infin] more [noun sg] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a pair like , say , Chase Manhattan and Chemical Bank , that would free more cash than the two 's combined profits of the past five years . |
| 2 | She 'll need more surgery before the condition is completely corrected . |
| 3 | Er it might very well be that the project manager may think , well my God , am I gon na do more work than the engineers that are working with you . |
| 4 | It is also time to worry , for such a strong consensus generally has an over-reaction on its coat-tails , one that could do more damage than the action to which it is a response . |
| 5 | That may mean no more than that such a scheme may do more good than harm and that it would do more good than the obvious alternatives . |
| 6 | Taxes raised on what is reckoned to be the world 's largest untaxed industry would help governments spend money on treatment and education , which would do more good than the billions currently spent on attempting to throttle the criminal supply of drugs of all sorts . |
| 7 | But John 's talk with Ormond had shown him that the danger was far more insidious : The corruption of a kindly , well-intentioned , paternal government could do more harm than the worst of tyrannies . |
| 8 | Note that the transmitter control will only allow you to reduce the response ; it can not give more throw than the mechanical linkage will allow . |
| 9 | Let us hope that the choice of Manchester for the next Davis Cup tie will provide more interest than the last match against France . |
| 10 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 11 | The company memory of the late launch of a profitable product will convey more merit than the prompt launch of a failure , whatever the arguments put up at the time . |
| 12 | Equation ( 5.30 ) is the aggregate supply curve : firms will produce more output if the price level is higher than that expected by workers or their trade union . |
| 13 | They would produce more water so the oceans would get fuller . |
| 14 | Neutron stars may produce more energy than the Sun soon after they form , when they are active as pulsars , but this phase of energetic activity only lasts for a few thousand years . |
| 15 | It may appear that putting this strategy into practice will take more time than the conventional practice of writing words in the children 's own spelling books . |
| 16 | However , the words of the governing document will have more significance than the more recent correspondence or terms of reference , if any : see Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC Ltd 28 EG 86 at 99 . |
| 17 | In the 1922 Committee , there are no votes and less divisiveness but the opinions , as conveyed by the chairman to the party leader , may have more influence than the votes and debates in the Parliamentary Labour Party . |
| 18 | Surely it should have more potential than the Booker : the romantic novel has a wider mass readership , and there are few prizes for this end of the market . |
| 19 | That appraisal of the Order might have more force if the Order had provided simply that from 31 July any sum to which a person became entitled other than by operation of law would not qualify as a deposit . |
| 20 | But , on average , people in the United Kingdom do not pay more tax than the average European . |
| 21 | I think it may be it may be that they could perhaps get more money if the local parties affiliated separately but |
| 22 | David Scott , for example , complained that he got so many requests for Indian patronage from the council of St. Andrews that if the remaining burghs in his district were to seek aid in proportion to the size of their communities it ‘ would require more patronage than the whole East India Direction have in their gift ’ . |
| 23 | He also had to show that he would suffer more harm if the interim remedy were not granted than the defendant would suffer if it was ( the ‘ balance of convenience ’ ) . |
| 24 | It may well be the case that the routine killings of the Lethal Weapon films should cause more concern than the genuinely revolting violence of The Silence of the Lambs and Reservoir Dogs . |
| 25 | The first thing she will do is organise more space than the limited suite of offices traditionally allocated to the First Lady . |