Example sentences of "more [conj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlemagne was lucky in that his only brother , four years younger than himself , died in 771 after a short period of increasingly fraught joint-rule ; but it took more than luck to remove that brother 's sons — they , and their mother , disappeared when their uncle defeated and imprisoned their protector , the Lombard king . |
| 2 | During that period Lukic had little more than back passes to worry him ( AND SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF THE LEEDS FANS SEZ ME ) |
| 3 | Dmitrii Zamiatnin , the deputy Minister of Justice , and Sergei Zarudnyi , Bludov 's assistant at the Second Department , were juridical radicals , but although they registered a few successes in their quest for change ( notably the foundation of the enlightened Journal of the Ministry of Justice in 1859 ) , they needed more than idealism to convert their superiors . |
| 4 | Coghill did more than heap praises on Dymer . |
| 5 | ‘ All right then , but you mind he does — and I hope he 's got something more than milk to drink up there . |
| 6 | It can of course be no more than speculation to consider whether this total concern with instalment size makes people less likely to keep up conscientiously with the payments than they would be if they had a clear idea of their total commitment . |
| 7 | Using nothing more than precision machining methods , and without any change to dimensions or specifications , small machine tool maker Leland and Faulconer increased engine output by 23 per cent . |
| 8 | shall pay some good money out on a Sunday night , it 's more than weekday do n't they ? |
| 9 | The ‘ assumptions ’ of the topmost box can include more than experience puts there , but whatever finds its way in has to be transformed by deduction into predictions which can be tested by observation . |
| 10 | ‘ And the Angus men , I can tell you , were too busy to do more than yell insults at the other Angus men . |
| 11 | A common criticism is that their ‘ telepathy ’ is nothing more than mumbo-jumbo covering the clever ‘ detective ’ work of extracting clues and information from their naive victims . |
| 12 | Rachel and Nicky love getting up to their elbows in gloop , a slimy mixture of nothing more than cornflour mixed with water and food colouring . |
| 13 | It is , by itself , little more than window dressing on the part of the Government . |
| 14 | You have to invest more than money to make profit |
| 15 | It gained terrific publicity , but it takes more than column inches to sell records , and I am sure that Elvis 's continuing success has more to do with talent . |
| 16 | No other user may have an interest in the module ie. no other LIFESPAN user may have a package which references this module as this would involve more than module baselining . |
| 17 | When Katherine returns unexpectedly to do battle for Jack as well as the Deal , Tess needs more than power dressing to win . |
| 18 | Remarkably , a record of little more than mediocrity has already lifted Holyfield within one or two fights of eclipsing every man who 's ever laced on a glove in terms of financial reward . |
| 19 | It was down to a miskick by City Manager , Russell Osman , but it was no more than Town deserved and Marwood took the chance brilliantly . |
| 20 | The Government is spending over half as much again more than Labour did when they were last in power . |
| 21 | There were also some presentational reductions in prices in some isolated , small-scale undertakings , where domestic consumers using electricity for very little more than lighting had been charged very high flat rates per kWh . |
| 22 | But I see more than Rainbow does : I see something else coming over the wall . |
| 23 | If empiricism is claiming to be the study of the observable and explicable , then it is no more than behaviourism returned , vampire-like , to seek new life in the fear-ridden haunted village of modern academia . |
| 24 | It will take more than oil to make those wheels turn . |
| 25 | ‘ The insurance can cost £80 more than policy offered by Age Concern . |
| 26 | About 70 jobs have already been created , with the potential for 80 more once demand recovers and output reaches its full 1,500-bus capacity . |
| 27 | For a moment she was too filled with emotion to say more and Marguerite glanced at her quickly , patting her arm . |
| 28 | The dive-bombing skuas , the screaming terns , the lovely trilling whimbrel and dunlin and the wailing divers , all are silent and will be seen and heard no more until spring arrives to warm the earth and banish the snows of winter . |
| 29 | He laughed some more but Rain switched tack to ask why Hunter-Blair had told him . |
| 30 | ACT intends to pursue such partnership agreements more and more as time goes on . |