Example sentences of "more than [pron] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , there are clear overall safety benefits from these approaches , which lead accidents in residential areas to fail more than they rise on peripheral roads . |
| 2 | Private indigenous entrepreneurs in Nigeria are still to cultivate the discipline of conserving more than they consume of their trade surplus and of re-investing such surpluses to expand the firm . |
| 3 | But in Bangladesh boys are already producing more than they consume by the age of 10 and have repaid their parents ’ investment in their upbringing by the time they are 15 . |
| 4 | They get far more than they bargain for . |
| 5 | As a result of inflation and part repayment of mortgages most home owners have a property which is worth far more than they owe on it . |
| 6 | As a result of inflation and part repayment of mortgages most home owners have a property which is worth far more than they owe on it . |
| 7 | Many developing nations , with limited resources available with which to adjust or adapt to changes in climate , will have to rely on international assistance even more than they do at present . |
| 8 | Will he confirm that tenants who decide to buy under the provisions of the rents-to-mortgages scheme will pay little more than they do in rent ? |
| 9 | ‘ Tata 's two assistants know everything there is to know about the trade , and I suspect you 'll know even more than they do within a few months . |
| 10 | For such patients we have adopted a policy of exercise testing on the one hand to convince them that they can often do a lot more than they feel like doing , and on the other hand to pick up the occasional patient who has severe residual ischaemia but is not declaring it . |
| 11 | Better by far to tackle equity withdrawal on big loans , where better-off house-buyers borrow £20,000 more than they need for a house-purchase , to buy that flashy car they have always wanted . |
| 12 | When the money supply is increased , people find themselves holding more than they need for current transactions and so attempt to spend the excess . |
| 13 | She blames the manufacturers for the poor design of the container : probably deliberate , she reflects , probably calculated to make people splurge out far more than they need of the stuff . |
| 14 | When he finally paused for breath , I said , ‘ Hold on a moment ’ and explained that , although obviously nobody wants to spend more than they have to on anything , in my case it was a matter of principle , because I wanted my husband 's funeral to be a personal affair in which he would be ministered to by his loved-ones , not strangers . |
| 15 | Second , egged on by their accountants , most banks have been reluctant to appear to endorse FAS107 any more than they have to , for fear of encouraging more stringent market-value accounting rules . |
| 16 | So they er they agree that they have an influence on market prices , but they , they wo n't , are not prepared to pay any more than they have to . |
| 17 | The inward Life Force , surrounded by innumerable sheaths and finally by a patterning of the subtle physical tattwas , creates a form or body of the same essential patterning , which is most wonderfully intricate , dynamic and complex , far more than we observe in a stone , in water or in the relatively simple molecular structure of the air . |
| 18 | This year we are paying into the Common Market budget about £2.5 billion more than we receive in order to subsidise richer countries . |
| 19 | It was thought to be efficient to increase the yield to produce more than we need at a price which is more than we can pay and then dump the surplus on the world market , leaving the farmer with nothing . |
| 20 | Food Giant claims we 're all spending far more than we need to when we shop at the well-known supermarkets . |
| 21 | If we could answer these , I feel we should know a lot more than we do about the earliest history of the place and the way it has grown . |
| 22 | The ‘ base communities ’ of Latin America know more than we do about hunger and sickness , but it is study of the Bible that gives them understanding and courage to demand justice in the name of the God of justice . |
| 23 | Unless he knows more than we do about how soon your new longships are coming . ’ |
| 24 | For the future , I am optimistic that after such a disastrous period in banking we shall continue to enjoy a return to the traditional virtues embodied in professional qualifications ; and that in order to continue providing members with good value for money we shall need to co-operate more than we do at present with other institutes . |
| 25 | Harmony is compromise in many cases , some countries doing far more than we do in the UK — full-range blood tests , for example . |
| 26 | It is more than I bargain for to recall the names of my own … family . ’ |
| 27 | Having said this , let me try to make clear what I do not mean to be claiming in this section , lest I be taken to be arguing for more than I intend to be . |
| 28 | ‘ More than I approve of most of what I see down here . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's no-one in the world that thinks more than I do about every goddam f—ing thing that happens with us . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ For your information , I do n't believe in double standards for men — any more than I believe in them for women . |