Example sentences of "have do [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | TEN years of Conservative government has produced a poor record on environmental issues , but Mrs Thatcher 's ‘ conversion ’ in the past year has meant she has done more than any other world leader to push the issue to the top of the political , business , and economic agenda , says a Friends of the Earth report . |
| 2 | Mrs Thatcher 's green ‘ conversion ’ has meant she has done more than any other world leader to push the environment to the top of the political , business , and economic agenda , say Friends of the Earth . |
| 3 | Equipment-cost inflation has done more than the huge cost of the Welfare State and our poor economic performance to reduce Britain 's military independence . |
| 4 | One reason why ants are so sophisticated is because of their complex language of chemical communication , which Dr Wilson has done more than anyone to elucidate . |
| 5 | It amounts to a lack of faith in a God who has done more than they could have dreamed of to demonstrate his own faithfulness . |
| 6 | Nothing has done more than the cruise missiles to divide the peoples of the Atlantic alliance . |
| 7 | Pauline Bishop has done more than her fair share of globe-trotting . |
| 8 | ROBERT JONES has done more than enough to eclipse the new Moon that is rising in Welsh rugby . |
| 9 | There are good grounds for suggesting that general practice in Britain has done more than merely survive . |
| 10 | The one event that has done more than any other to damage the reputation of Athenian democracy is , of course , the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC for impiety and corrupting the young . |
| 11 | William Cobbett , the nineteenth-century essayist , perhaps has done more than anyone to influence our feelings about the rural . |
| 12 | The irony is that Dr Oliver has done more than most to document the real reasons why conductive education is attractive to parents from Britain and many other Western countries . |
| 13 | I hope that the Party can use Marxism Today as its ‘ front door ’ , and as a major interface with the wider movement : MT has done more than anything else to build up the prestige of the CP , and that contribution should never be forgotten . |
| 14 | He has done more than most to stimulate thought on matters of faith among ordinary people . |
| 15 | JE Nicholson ( Points of View , 10 February ) has done more than 5,000 car journeys over the Forth Road Bridge into Edinburgh , only to be habitually overtaken by a man on a tricycle , and has concluded that a new road bridge is not the answer . |
| 16 | Warwickshire have a number of dual-purpose players and no-one has done better than Dermot Reeve , with 2,525 runs and 73 wickets in the last two championship seasons . |
| 17 | In the 12 periods analysed in the published articles , the portfolio ( theoretical or actual ) has done better than the UK stock market on nine occasions and worse on three occasions . |
| 18 | ‘ The North-East has done better than the rest of the UK under Conservative policies . ’ |
| 19 | " Nobody could have done more than you , " I said . |
| 20 | It is doubtful whether , given his premises and the situation in which he found himself , he could have done more than convey the expression of widespread discontent and indicate at the same time that something had changed in the Roman governing class . |
| 21 | I sense that you are suggesting the County Council should have done more than write a paragraph or two |
| 22 | Certainly to explain the Incarnation in a quarter of an hour over the air is a tall order , but Lewis could surely have done better than to say , ‘ If you want to get the hang of it , think how you would like to become a slug or a crab . ’ |
| 23 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
| 24 | Nobody , he said , could have done better than the Chancellor . |
| 25 | Surely Sherlock Holmes could have done better than this ? |
| 26 | She felt she could have done better than she did with her next remark . |
| 27 | Cos he thinks he should have done better than that and he 's right he should of done better . |
| 28 | Oh gosh , you would n't have done better than that , that 's for sure . |
| 29 | Later he denied having ever attended committee meetings of the Officers ' Union , or indeed having done more than establish four branches for them at Glasgow , Leith , Liverpool and Hull before resigning in September 189I . |
| 30 | Motion will have to do better than this if he seriously intends his series of novels to capture the feel of a period . |