Example sentences of "more [subord] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leader was perhaps doing no more than drawing on the enthusiasm detectable in each of the two components of the party for the idea of citizenship . |
| 2 | They like nothing more than wallowing in a cool mud bath in the mornings when the sun is not too high and then resting in the shade of an acacia tree during the scorching heat which follows . |
| 3 | There 's nowt folk like more than reading about a good tune , so for as long as there is pop music , there will be glossies , inkies , monthlies , weeklies , columns , companions , fanzines , tradezines , pull-outs , poster-mags , flexi-mags , the lot . |
| 4 | In Stein 's day the jade searchers of Chinese Turkestan had already taken to a kind of superficial mining , even if this amounted to no more than burrowing through overlying deposits to search the cobble bed down to depths of up to some twenty feet . |
| 5 | It takes more than promenading on the streets to learn one of the world 's most difficult languages , James Meek finds |
| 6 | Attaining maximum health involves much more than aiming for a low weight . |
| 7 | the yard automatically became obliged to increase the return letter of credit pro tanto and were therefore doing no more than undertaking in this respect to fulfil their existing contractual duty . |
| 8 | These cases demonstrate that social care planning involves far more than slotting in occasional services piece meal , as they are available . |
| 9 | I had always been keen on hillwalking and loved nothing more than escaping to the peace of the hills with my three oldest and closest friends . |
| 10 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 11 | When the younger counsellor shares these experiences with the older counsellee they are both doing far more than embarking on a process of recalling the past , they are sharing a common heritage which has been formative for the young as well as the old , although less directly so . |
| 12 | It is the chief active ingredient in vinegar but the world 's consumption of about two and a half million tonnes per year is used for more than sprinkling on fish and chips . |
| 13 | And , with a horrified shudder , it occurred to Folly that if she stayed any longer in the corridor she might hear more than talking in the room beyond the door . |
| 14 | : encouraging for Festival director Nikki Milican , and an indication that her vision in bringing less well-established but visually exciting performers to Scotland is more than paying off this year . |
| 15 | But would I be doing more than playing with words which sound agreeable to me , ‘ dignity ’ , ‘ freedom ’ , ‘ responsibility ’ , to describe what could still just as well be called nihilism ? |
| 16 | To say , as I pull my hand back from the flame , 'l have no reason to shun pain' , is no more than playing with a verbal formula of doubt ; it does not open any abyss under my feet like ‘ I have no reason to obey moral imperatives ’ . |
| 17 | However , for people with children , making a will means a lot more than coming to terms with you-know-what . |
| 18 | There is a great deal of potential here for criminalising conduct that amounts to little more than arguing with a policeman , which it should be one of the aims of public order law to prevent . |
| 19 | The willingness to share in the experiences of patients ; to share their sense of loss , disappointment , anger and grief and the spiritual anguish which can challenge the way they have thought , perhaps believed and behaved in the past , can add to your nursing care much more than withdrawing from or denying such experience . |
| 20 | But Paying Your Way was not respectable , any more than Keeping To The Left . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's nothing that vipers like more than basking on hot sunny rocks . ’ |
| 22 | Involvement should mean much more than agreeing to be interviewed by the analyst and working extra overtime hours as the operational date for the new system nears . |
| 23 | There was a developing awareness that politics went beyond the institutions of government , and that the connections between state and society involved more than attending to the formal implications of regular general elections and the play of party politics . |
| 24 | Erm I think it it is beneficial mainly in the sense that erm if nothing more than running round the vehicle to make sure there are no marks and bangs and scratches on it which you 're going to inherit from the the previous run that it had er with a different driver perhaps . |
| 25 | But what thrilled Mrs Simmons even more than winning with these photographs was the fact that , in an after-dinner speech , top European photographer Hans Schenkel highly praised another of her works . |
| 26 | And nor should they be , for if my contention is correct , they are simply discovering new applications for that basic idea of popular power ; they are doing no more than engaging in the latest reinterpretation , or fresh application , of the classic democratic idea . |
| 27 | This broad approach at least is common ; it is certainly more than going on courses . |
| 28 | There 's nothing I hate more than going to an exhibition where there 's nobody there whom I know and there 's nothing there which I like … |
| 29 | The underlying idea here is that reason can be more than going through the techniques and operations that reason demands ; and more than paying attention to particular truth claims . |