Example sentences of "not [verb] more than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authors of the survey say that there was very little ‘ in the way of political activism ’ on the part of the Law Lords whose contribution to debates on bills was largely that of acting as ‘ resident technical consultants to the legislature on legal points ’ and it seems that those with records of overt political affiliation did not speak more than others . |
| 2 | The movement toward greater precision is characteristically from A to B. This does not mean that A can not contain more than B , but that when there is a relation of greater precision between A and B , it is B that typically exhibits that greater precision . |
| 3 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 4 | The curve , by contrast , is the effective demand curve for labour : firms , considered in the aggregate , can not sell more than Y units of output on account of a sales constraint in the goods market , which in turn is the result of a deficiency of aggregate demand . |
| 5 | We ca n't afford more than food at the moment . |