Example sentences of "do [det] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We must do more than simply continue to meet the stringent safety and environmental standards imposed by statute . ’ |
| 2 | The pictures , on the other hand , must do more than just illustrate the story . |
| 3 | They may argue as a point of fact that , to carry on a taxable ‘ business ’ ( or ‘ economic activity ’ — the terminology in the EC 's Sixth Directive , Art 4(1) and ( 2 ) ) and so use the partial exemption rules , the person must do more than just sell a mere , say , £5 worth of food , drink , tobacco , matches , magazines , books , postcards , camera films , audio or video tapes , cassettes , compact discs , records , sunglasses or combs each year . |
| 4 | It prepares the way for the main body of the essay or answer to the question and should do more than just " set the scene " . |
| 5 | You can do more than just watch a programme once , straight through . |
| 6 | ‘ I think you 'll do more than just wish me success . |
| 7 | She was more than well acquainted with Lubor 's proclivity to see an invitation to grow amorous where there was none , though since he could n't do more than verbally flirt over the dinner table she could n't see any harm in accepting . |
| 8 | I told you last night , George , I ca n't do more than merely agree . |
| 9 | We shall not have a complete theory until we can do more than merely say that ‘ things are as they are because they were as they were . ’ |
| 10 | At all events , it is difficult to see how such a gain would do more than very marginally modify the picture which has been outlined . |
| 11 | If visiting or entertaining friends is difficult , this is the first and most important problem to be tackled , because maintaining ( or restoring ) this particular activity will do more than almost anything else to keep life in balance . |
| 12 | But it should be kept in mind that the home visit , for reasons of either vocational guidance or after-care , was intended to do more than simply attend to the school-leaver , who was urged to ‘ put your shoulder to the wheel ’ in order ‘ to reduce to a minimum the number of inefficient citizens ’ . |
| 13 | This allows us to do more than simply check back on the forecasters ' performance on individual countries ; it enables us to assess which forecaster has the best record across all the big economies . |
| 14 | It 's been talking to OSF about just these kinds of things , and would ( of course ) , like to do more than simply participate in such an effort if it could , though the smoke signals from OSF read simply ‘ message received , ’ for the present . |
| 15 | Woken the next morning , yet again , by the early arrival of the twins , there had simply been no opportunity to do more than groggily force herself to rise , dressing herself and the children before completing the packing of all their suitcases . |
| 16 | But the fact is no lender can ever be absolutely sure that a guarantor is not being subject to pressure from the principal debtor , and to require him to do more than properly and fairly point out to the guarantor the desirability of obtaining independent advice , and to require the documents to be executed in the presence of a solicitor , is to put upon commercial lenders a burden which would severely handicap the carrying out of what is , after all , an extremely common transaction of everyday occurrence for banks and other commercial lenders . |
| 17 | said , at p. 1201E–F , that the law should not ‘ require [ the lender ] to do more than properly and fairly point out to the guarantor the desirability of obtaining independent advice … |
| 18 | Has he asked you to do more than just bring film of Piper 's records ? ’ |
| 19 | I would need to do more than just win this game , I would need to annihilate her like the cockerel ; more , I would need to break her completely . |
| 20 | He wanted to do more than just look ; it was at such times that he felt the urge to paint . |
| 21 | Successful time management allows you to do more than merely cope with your study or your work in the office . |
| 22 | However , if artistic representations of my experience are to do more than merely reflect a personal trauma , it is imperative that the work connect with the common experiences of other women in the same or similar situations . |
| 23 | Hussey has been doing more than both driving and reading the map . |
| 24 | In effect , under the present system a voter is doing more than simply choosing a parliamentary representative . |
| 25 | The financial markets may be in retreat and the pound may be on a slippery slope , but it 's not just the insolvency practitioners and bailiffs that are doing well ; some companies in sectors as diverse as retailing , restaurants and medical equipment are also doing more than just make ends meet . |
| 26 | When you move into your Higgs & Hill home at Port Solent you 'll be doing more than just living on the waterfront . |
| 27 | A psalmist in Biblical times wrote of lifting one 's eyes to the hills but on the day we visited Croagh Patrick on the western seaboard of Co Mayo , Ireland thousands were doing more than just look . |
| 28 | So I said if it 's only for a mile it 's going to be well less than a minute at eighty , presuming you were doing more than thereabouts and er that was it . |
| 29 | Even middle-school students , a number of articles declared , were doing more than merely ‘ talking love ’ . |
| 30 | Though they were still doing less than half as much business as the British company , their rate of return on capital was higher . |