Example sentences of "more than [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , samples from recent excavations have subsequently become available , and the project has now produced twenty radiocarbon results : more than doubling the previous total for actual skeletons from British Beaker burials . |
| 2 | The general principles just outlined apply in sale of goods , for although there are sections of the Sale of Goods Act governing the assessment of damages , those sections do little more than embody the general principles . |
| 3 | Arguably , the defence has no evidential burden to discharge in this situation , for , since the defence is seeking to do no more than deny the basic elements of the prosecution 's case , any assertion of consent by the defence should be placed before the jury . |
| 4 | Designed to nip in the bud any incipient growth in villages , it was successful , so far as the city was concerned , probably because it did no more than sanction the existing situation , even though in the fifteenth century the trade had flourished at Hartlebury , which remained an important centre of the specialised craft of fulling . |
| 5 | Once you have understood how the machine creates slip , tuck and knit stitches , the rest is just a progression of these , involving very little more than using the electronic pattern selection . |
| 6 | However , they can do no more than recommend the best of the available options and even in expert hands the treatment of anorexia nervous must still be considered unsatisfactory . |
| 7 | To the extent that functioning markets have emerged — notably in the car parks of every big city — they do little more than recycle the small supply of consumer goods . |
| 8 | In most cases conversion meant little more than adjusting the overhead wires to allow for two conductors instead of one . |
| 9 | The idea of a book each a year from the three editors seemed to calm him and I am sure he realizes that this involves more than reading the one script . |
| 10 | It takes a slippery road to make the Volvo wag its tail ; over-exuberance with the throttle otherwise does nothing more than make the inside rear wheel spin the power away . |
| 11 | But here , under the thick turf roof and the stone walls which had weathered many a north Atlantic gale , we were secure from the driving rain , and the heaviest gusts of wind did little more than make the oil-lamp flicker in its hanger . |
| 12 | Dulles did more than make the customary recommendations that the policies of the colonial powers keep abreast of local political aspirations . |
| 13 | There has been much debate since the Judicature Acts as to whether they did something more than fuse the two systems at a procedural level , namely to change the substantive law . |
| 14 | Improving village schooling may , however , have done no more than keep the total proportion of Kent 's children receiving schooling constant , for there is also evidence of a deteriorating situation in some of the towns . |
| 15 | Most simply give themselves up , and , in the case of those who have done no more than poach the odd buck for a little bushmeat , are often let off with a caution . |
| 16 | This is more than triple the national average , itself one of the worst in the developed world . |
| 17 | Digital Equipment Corp says more than 1,400 technical and commercial applications and software products for the Alpha RISC will be ready to ship by the end of June : the total includes products from 500 software developers worldwide , as well as DEC itself , for the AXP and OpenVMS AXP operating systems on Alpha AXP and is more than triple the 400 available at the end of last month . |
| 18 | That Sirteco was obliged to do no more than inform the foreign commerce ministry that the waste disposal contract had been paid for illustrates the failure of the Italian government to monitor the international activities of waste disposal companies . |
| 19 | This transformation did little more than reflect the changing current of aesthetics in Western Europe at this time . |
| 20 | In many respects cities do no more than reflect the wider processes that prevail within society as a whole . |
| 21 | Tony 's Cornish landscapes , in frames of plain gilt , looked well ; their rich browns , yellows and orange tones warmed the room and more than balanced the white walls . |
| 22 | On television that evening Mobutu said that the conference could do no more than write the new constitution , and could not adopt it . |
| 23 | Mr Franco had been branded as a distracted caretaker , doing little more than warming the presidential chair he inherited last October , when Fernando Collor was ousted in disgrace . |
| 24 | I have not been able to do more than suggest the rough outline of this approach . |
| 25 | It sounds as if we are doing little more than making the best of a bad job . |
| 26 | No longer need a search for set words be made ; it was now a matter of seeking words , or even deeds , which need do no more than satisfy the minimal essential principles of the law of trusts . |
| 27 | There is one area in which costing systems can do no more than provide the raw data , and that is in the treatment of overruns , variations and claims , which can often only be quantified by a detailed interpretation of the data recorded in the system . |
| 28 | By 1992-93 , we will have more than tripled the original £15 million budget allocation for the know-how fund . |
| 29 | In saying that the power exists we were doing no more than to reaffirm the unlimited nature of the court 's inherent jurisdiction over minors , a jurisdiction which empowers and may require the court to override the wishes of a minor , even if he or she has sufficient understanding to make an informed decision . |
| 30 | The G7 members did no more than reassure the financial markets about their readiness to intervene to curb volatility . |