Example sentences of "more than [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The office of collector of supply was one which held its value over time , for the salary appears to have increased at a rate which more than compensated the holder for the ravages of inflation . |
| 2 | The summary of the Webbs ' view is that , by contrast with their model of Socialism , Owen 's scheme — if it could have been carried out — would have done no more than redistribute the capital of the country without altering or superseding the capitalist system in the least . |
| 3 | Even a Trinidad deal does little more than bring the amount of interest that Africans owe closer to what they are managing to pay anyway . |
| 4 | ‘ Literacy means more than learning a code or writing a word . |
| 5 | When his father died he felt nothing and had done nothing more than take a day off for the funeral . |
| 6 | The likely result is that this wording does no more than track the law as laid down in Jones v Sherwood Computer Services plc [ 1991 ] NPC 60 : see 13.6 . |
| 7 | This is justified by his belief that abstractionism does more than obscure the truth of immaterialism . |
| 8 | The process involves no more than threading a strip beneath another one that runs across it more or less at right angles , and keeping on doing so at intervals with dogged persistence , pulling the strip tight after each threading . |
| 9 | The sun was shining at two thousand feet , but it did no more than lacquer the fog . |
| 10 | Nobody who is sensible or sane would say that we should export more arms to a country that is already awash with them , because it would do little more than increase the bloodshed that has already stained that country . |
| 11 | You may also find icons which do no more than invoke an error message because the associated program or file has been erased from the harddisk . |
| 12 | As a restaurant manager you will have total control of a sizeable business , and that means much more than overseeing the day to day running of the restaurant [ which is quite a challenge in itself ] . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , if cost effectiveness is seen as a relevant criterion , the potential savings in accident costs alone promise to more than recoup the outlay on the environmental traffic management schemes . |
| 14 | The enthusiasm of the sixties ( it was not just naivety ) would have held that education should lead the whole process , while the cynicism of the seventies and eighties would have us believe that education , that is schools at any rate , can do no more than mirror the society of which they are part . |
| 15 | It is clear , furthermore , that Categories 1 and 2 do not impose an evidential burden on the defendant as far as the consent issue is concerned , for generally speaking , where the defence seeks to do no more than deny the prosecution 's assertion , it is entitled to have its claims placed before the jury . |
| 16 | At the end of June 1862 , not long after Young Russia and the fires in St Petersburg — and immediately after an attempt on the life of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich — Valuev produced a paper on the internal condition of the empire in which he admitted the many difficulties under which the government was labouring but proposed no more than converting the State Council into a somewhat more representative body and bypassing the judicial system to deal with radicals more speedily . |
| 17 | For the rest , the euphoria that they experienced more than matched the unpleasantness . |
| 18 | In both schools , the investment in furniture , fittings , and decoration , and no less importantly in teacher-librarians , was substantial , and as the head of School A argued , may well have more than matched the project grant . |
| 19 | The most daunting problem facing Louis Gerstner is that as yet he has absolutely no idea just how much he does n't know — and he will be Superman if in six months he has more than scratched the surface on that problem . |
| 20 | ( The charter still exists and the seal can be seen in the town museum , which more than repays a visit . ) |
| 21 | In practical terms , selling a house through an estate agent can not possibly cost more than using a solicitor . |
| 22 | When you knit with the main bed alone , the sinker plate does more than hold the yarn ; it holds the knitting back against the machine while the needles move forward . |
| 23 | Effective management of a county interest required the politician to do more than strike a bargain in which a vote , or votes , was the return for immediate patronage . |
| 24 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 25 | Perhaps he is a merry , convivial sort of fellow in private life , who likes nothing more than to crack a bottle of wine with his friends when there is no possibility of having to drive a motor-car afterwards . |
| 26 | D : A daring character who likes nothing more than to crack the whip and digs anything that has a bit of a history connected to it |
| 27 | However , success does depend on more than restructuring the membership . |
| 28 | The usual reason these days is that the target company employs an army of people with skills of a kind difficult and too time-consuming to assemble by recruitment , and that trying to build such a team would cost much more than buying the company . |
| 29 | Clearly the same did not occur in the UK ; the increased propensity to offend more than counterbalanced the decline in the high-offender groups in the population ( Liddelow 1990 ) . |
| 30 | AI programs are primarily symbolic processes that do more than follow an algorithm , as in traditional ( procedural ) computing . |