Example sentences of "more [conj] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 'd like to know more or offer help , contact group member Lynn Hughes , 3 Hill Close , Llangathen , Carmarthen , Dyfed SA32 8QE . |
| 2 | Over the years , the expansion in the size and competence of the Party 's control apparatus has more than kept pace with the growth of the General Staff , and the proliferation of in-house staff supporting Politburo and Secretariat members has been a noteworthy aspect of the process . |
| 3 | ‘ But Tate 's pictures seem to have avoided the doldrums ; his prices have much more than kept pace with inflation . ’ |
| 4 | If , looking at the Mediterranean world from our Western and Northern viewpoint , we do no more than take note of the removal of North Africa from the scene of Latin Christianity , we shall scarcely have begun to come to grips with the size of the problem . |
| 5 | … ’ Reading this part of the judgment as a whole , however , it is clear that the district judge was doing no more than taking note of the fact that whereas the proceedings before him were ready for trial the future of the B.M.F.L. prosecution was beset with uncertainty . |
| 6 | Sustaining men through a long sentence is much more than providing work or classes , important though they are . |
| 7 | The New Year brings new challenges , none more than providing tuition facilities for students taking their finals , and thanks to BT this has been overcome and Student Liaison Officer Geoff Forster is running his down courses . |
| 8 | The second school of thought contends that the word in this context means no more than to take possession of an article and that there is no requirement that the taking or appropriation should be in any way antagonistic to the rights of the owner . |
| 9 | Unlike a computer the brain does more than receive information . |
| 10 | Even though Jones eventually fell , mis-hooking Pringle just before tea , after 3½ hours of defiance , the last session looked set to be little more than batting practice for the home side . |
| 11 | As part of a sweeping agreement , Mr Jackson will do more than make music for Sony ; he will also run his own record label , Nation Records , under the auspices of a new media company , the Jackson Entertainment Complex , a 50–50 joint venture with Sony Software . |
| 12 | While there was certainly an increase in the output of these businesses in the prosperous years of the late 1970s it is doubtful if they did more than keep pace with the fast growth rate for the manufacturing sector as a whole , estimated by the World Bank to be 12 per cent from 1970 to 1982 . |
| 13 | In its evidence in chief , the prosecution need do no more than adduce evidence of one of the circumstances required by the offence of criminal sexual conduct . |
| 14 | But cruise and Pershing 11 missiles do more than maintain deterrence in the face of a growing threat . |
| 15 | But Richard of York himself made no attempt to co-ordinate his movements with Cade 's , and the demands for his inclusion among the King 's advisers probably do no more than reflect dislike of the existing court faction . |
| 16 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 17 | The key to our success is the recognition by users and their families that we avoid notions of coercion and forcible treatment , that psychiatric practice involves more than ensuring compliance with medication . |
| 18 | It is a matter for serious consideration whether the legal authority should be required to do anything more than establish identity and ascertain that the person was in fact killed as the result of an aircraft accident rather than deliberate sabotage . |
| 19 | Would that it were as easy as sticking your hand up to vote for it Because I have to say that I see no evidence since that motion approving the management initiative was passed of Labour and Liberal members doing any more than paying lip service . |
| 20 | Now let us take a step in time and move from summer to autumn , the time when the lush weed is still present and the water still runs clear at not much more than summer level . |
| 21 | Do not be afraid to aggregate categories that are not ( for your purposes ) usefully differentiated but , on the other hand , mention parallel or inverse trends in subclasses if you feel these represent more than sampling variability . |
| 22 | So doubtful was Maxine about her ability to contribute to the treatment in general , and about the strength of her visual imagination in particular , that we decided between us to do no more than practise relaxation and visualization techniques during that first visit . |
| 23 | On the face of it they may appear to do little more than give effect to the government 's consistent promise to maximise the opportunities for parental choice in the education system . |
| 24 | At one level , literature is always about language , so that , in the words of Tzvetan Todorov , ‘ the writer does nothing more than read language ’ ( 1969 : 84 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ The writer does nothing more than read language ’ ( Todorov 1969 : 84 ) , he is ‘ someone for whom language is a problem ’ ( Barthes 1966 : 46 ) , and the literary work itself becomes ‘ a question put to language ’ ( p.55 ) . |
| 26 | This seems to be pushing the linguistic analogy too far , and to be taking too literally the structuralist tenet that literature is ‘ the essential manifestation ’ of language , and that ‘ the writer does nothing more than read language ’ ( p.84 ) . |
| 27 | Of the other US investments McGraw-Hill did little more than tread water , but Houghton Mifflin recovered well from depressed levels in mid-1991 . |
| 28 | Marxist writers , and their supporters , argue that this latter approach can do nothing more than describe reality ; it can never explain and analyse the complex causal relationships of human existence , because research only concentrates on what is observable . |
| 29 | The plain fact is that even in a deposit based account , unless you 're a non-tax payer , any interest you make will already have had tax deducted and you may find your money is probably doing no more than keeping pace with inflation . |
| 30 | Whilst all this was going on , the enemy night defences were of course more than keeping pace with our ever-changing methods . |