Example sentences of "will [verb] more [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ It 'll do more harm than good . ’ |
| 2 | They 'll marry before long , and then you 'll have more grandsons than you can count . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'll sell more jellies than Soft Mick tomorrow . ’ |
| 4 | It 'll take more time than buying an off-the-shelf solution , it wo n't be so neatly packaged , and there are a few ‘ gotchas ’ for the unwary . |
| 5 | ‘ You will do important things ; you 'll save more lives than you can imagine . ’ |
| 6 | If they learn who you are I 'll lose more business than I can afford . |
| 7 | If we fail to do so , economic policies will remain more show than substance and the unemployed , the low-paid and others on low incomes , as well as manufacturing industries and small businesses , will continue to suffer as we lurch from one recession to the next . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | According to the Thera-vada school of Buddhism , the Southern Buddhism of Burma , Ceylon , Siam and Cambodia , there is no grace from outside man 's being to support , strengthen and save him ; he must rely on his own efforts , and the task will need more lives than one , countless lives in this world , alternating perhaps with lives in a heaven or hell . |
| 10 | Concrete steps will need more room than step irons or a ladder . |
| 11 | ‘ Pace allied to skill : if you start by having players of pace in most positions , you will win more matches than you lose ’ , he said . |
| 12 | If the good is a normal one , for example , consumers on higher incomes will buy more units than those on low incomes , all other things equal . |
| 13 | A properly signed and endorsed witness statement will carry more weight than a transcript should it be necessary to admit it under the Civil Evidence Act in the event of the witness being unable to give evidence at trial . |
| 14 | In Scotland , while the stamp duty change will benefit more homeowners than elsewhere because of the lower property prices , the change in tax relief will be a hindrance because mortgages tend to be lower . |
| 15 | The typical pattern is that one box will show more ticks than any of the others , but there may be one or two further boxes with scores not far behind . |
| 16 | An hour with this lovely girl will do more good than all that old fool 's pills ! |
| 17 | It maintains that a merger will do more harm than good because the merged group would lose orders from German car firms worried about depending on a single supplier . |
| 18 | People who are not subject to the authority of the law may then obey the rules for prudential reasons , or because even though they have no duty to obey , disobedience will do more harm than good . |
| 19 | If you are short of space , try using a round table as it will seat more people than a square or rectangular table of the same surface area . |
| 20 | The data produced will provide more information than legally required . |
| 21 | As such , they constitute fewer than one-third of those in these classes , but it is these classes that will provide more children than any other for university entry . |
| 22 | Let us hope that the choice of Manchester for the next Davis Cup tie will provide more interest than the last match against France . |
| 23 | As a result , some words will provide more overlaps than others purely as a result of the length of their definitions . |
| 24 | So , for example , although a family of four will use more water than someone living alone , the costs of providing the water and sewerage services will be almost the same for both households . |
| 25 | A ‘ cost per page ’ figure is a rough guide only as a full page of graphics will use more ink than a letter . |
| 26 | A worn engine will use more fuel than a good one . |
| 27 | If one reads the citizens charter , one realises that it will spawn more charters than the hydra could grow heads . |
| 28 | The LHC 's beams will contain more protons than the SSC 's , which might offset some of the SSC 's advantage in energy . |
| 29 | Now it may for the game that if he can cover the square number twelve , he will score more points than if he covers the square with the nine . |
| 30 | The greater variability in the reproductive success of males could just be a random result : by chance some individuals will meet more mates than do others , and this will have a larger effect on the variability of reproduction of males , because in males more of the random encounters can result in mating . |