Example sentences of "more [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curtains advertised with 25 per cent off were in reality £20 a pair more than advertised eight days earlier , Reading magistrates heard . |
| 2 | A prepayment of 75% against receivables of £670,000 more than met this amount . |
| 3 | Whole books have been devoted to the topic of sensitivity analysis in linear programming , and in one chapter we can do little more than indicate basic themes . |
| 4 | But voters whose preferences have been distributed between these two parties will have been doing no more than indicate acceptable alternatives , of which the basic pattern must have been , " Let that candidate of Party B have my vote IF and only IF my higher preference for this candidate of Party A has not been effective " . |
| 5 | In their view it was nothing more than delayed public spending in instalments . |
| 6 | The 20 percenters , as they are colloquially known , receive benefits which more than compensate this year for their 20 per cent . |
| 7 | As such it is difficult to do more than introduce some issues and concentrate only on the subset of issues that have figured most prominently in the public finance sub-discipline . |
| 8 | The requirement to take ‘ all practicable measures ’ involves more than taking reasonable care : it means doing what is feasible in the light of the state of knowledge existing at the time of the alleged breach of duty , thus knowledge as to the availability of abatement methods and the likelihood of the dust or fumes to cause injury or offence is relevant.l |
| 9 | Despite allaying concerns felt by some teachers , the adviser did not play down the accountability purpose to the exercise , nor was the self-appraisal presented as much more than providing factual information and describing their policy and practice . |
| 10 | The attitude of the church has made it difficult for governments to openly promote birth-control programs , that do anything more than advocate natural methods . |
| 11 | That more than matched last year 's total which , considering the unseasonally wet weather this July , delighted the crew . |
| 12 | The failure to find trade outlets in a world dominated by the French , British , Belgian and Dutch colonial holdings led Germany to penetrate the Slav east — the Balkans in particular — but there , as in Prussia , they did no more than provoke Slav nationalism . |
| 13 | There 's nothing Jack loathes more than reading some publication in which I 've referred to him as a saint and I 'm sure Reggie feels the same way . |
| 14 | This identification and sense of hope are technically possible in the home situation or in hospital but here is a serious risk that family members or medical and nursing staff will , by their own concerned actions intended to help the sufferer to eat , actually thereby enable the addictive disease to continue : there are few hinge the disease likes more than getting other people ( rather than the primary sufferer ) to take responsibility . |
| 15 | The Labour movement does use electronic communications for more than organising international bean feasts . |
| 16 | The paucity of available evidence concerning the foundation of the institution and the activities of the early Muftis means that one can hope to do no more than to draw reasonable inferences from the little evidence that does exist ; and some of what can be said about these problems involves a projection backward from the activities of later Muftis and will therefore be considered in greater detail in later sections . |
| 17 | The spate of major medical and nutritional reports published by governments and health authorities over the past few years has more than confirmed this suspicion . |
| 18 | New Historicism 's interest in larger cultural issues , with a current focus on the politics of reading , does offer a possible mode for addressing history as doing more than detailing localised concerns without slipping back into some grand historical narrative constructed through unaddressed critical assumptions . |
| 19 | The national market for ales is indeed flat , but ‘ Palatinate 's ’ growth has more than offset that problem for us . |
| 20 | In theory a statute could do no more than declare existing law ; and statutes were cast in a declaratory form . |
| 21 | I have more than made that point in my submission . |
| 22 | He hinted he would do more than host formal functions and represent Israel on state visits : ‘ I hope I will be able , through the efficient work of the government , to play a role in developing the Middle East peace process . ’ |
| 23 | Some aspects of Kuhn 's writings might give the impression that his account of the nature of science is a purely descriptive one , that is , that he aims to do nothing more than to describe scientific theories or paradigms and the activity of scientists . |
| 24 | In these areas Gloucester 's appointment in 1480 as the king 's lieutenant in the north did not do much more than recognize existing realities . |
| 25 | In these areas Gloucester 's appointment in 1480 as the king 's lieutenant in the north did not do much more than recognize existing realities . |
| 26 | My dearest friend , As yet I can do little more than write comfortable letters containing matter of fact and ordinary news . |
| 27 | The international airline business is a fiercely combative arena , where competitors enjoy nothing more than slitting each other 's throats ; Virgin 's tribulations showed the difficulties in allowing it to be governed by free market principles . |
| 28 | I think we I 'm assuming that as long as we do n't get more than say three hours of one type of recording from each place , we can get as much , apart from that constraint |
| 29 | As regards the claim in respect of additional lighting , he said that Wimpy International v Warland had decided that lighting that did no more than provide general illumination was not plant , as it was not used for carrying on the business . |
| 30 | Given the extreme nature of the problems experienced by this client group and the long history of failure by services to do more than provide custodial care this is no mean achievement . |