Example sentences of "did more than [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And especially the beloved Charles Dickens , who perhaps did more than any man in his century — including the great legislators and engineers — to awaken a new conscience in his fellow men . |
| 2 | Thus was made an archbishop who did more than any Archbishop of Canterbury since Stephen Langton of Magna Carta to make the Church more free in its relation to the State . |
| 3 | He may with good reason be regarded as the first of that long line of professional civil servants who did more than any others to make and destroy the medieval Church : they were professional administrators , equipped to forward the interests of government not by main force but by negotiation amidst the intricate issues of law and theology ; men of international standing , retaining the respect of their opponents , and not too hatefully or too personally involved in the cause which they were required to maintain . |
| 4 | He met C.L.R. James with his individual brand of Marxism and pan-Africanism ( James had broken with the Comintern ) , and he studied the writings of Marcus Garvey which ‘ did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm ’ . |
| 5 | In recent times Nicklaus probably did more than any player in sustaining the aura of Augusta . |
| 6 | ‘ I did more than any citizen could reasonably be expected to do . |