Example sentences of "more than just [vb base] " in BNC.
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1 | But the Horse Rangers does much more than just bring young people in urban areas into contact with horses . |
2 | Has he asked you to do more than just bring film of Piper 's records ? ’ |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Our current and future workload in the Middle East does more than just spell good news for the company . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I would suggest that it has done rather more than just reveal them . |
7 | Operators also do more than just answer the phone . |
8 | Navies all over the world do more than just try and blow each other out of the water , or go on desperate reconnaissance missions as seen on TV . |
9 | ‘ I think you 'll do more than just wish me success . |
10 | It is an excellent video that does much more than just show the superb display that the public expects from these professionals . |
11 | Access to the king , however , implied more than just access to the fount of patronage ; it also implied the right to give advice on the business of the kingdom . |
12 | And Rover 's refined and carefully designed interior — with sunroof , central locking and four-speaker stereo , all fitted as standard — ensure that the Metro GTi 's big car feel is more than just skin deep . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | However I know for a fact that is has done much more than just promote real draught ale . |
15 | But Wizadora gets children to do much more than just watch telly ! |
16 | You can do more than just watch a programme once , straight through . |
17 | For Le Preziose , Buitoni have created four new shapes , which do more than just look beautiful on the plate , they are specially designed to hold the delicious and subtle sauces that you 'll find in our recipes . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | He wanted to do more than just look ; it was at such times that he felt the urge to paint . |
20 | that erm when , in , in all , all the uprisings , the peasant uprisings , when the communists actually tried to propose more than just rent reductions then the peasants tended to lose interest at that . |
21 | We did more than just have a go when a golfing blue from Cambridge , whose other forte was history , joined the staff . |
22 | Evidence is mounting that weeds do more than just compete with crops for light and nutrients . |
23 | The pictures , on the other hand , must do more than just illustrate the story . |
24 | The great danger of cluster sampling is that one must be able to take the clusters together as a total unit if they are to be used for anything more than just cluster comparisons . |
25 | The latest Government proposals will do a lot more than just tinker with the existing liquor licensing laws in England and Wales , although the Scots will be pleased to hear that their licensing system is being used as the model for some of these proposed changes . |
26 | On the other hand it is now accepted that Kennedy 's lengthy telephone calls to Macmillan fell short of " consultation " even if Macmillan 's official biographer argues that they " were certainly more than just 'informative' " . |
27 | Topol — more than just toothpaste |
28 | But Oxfam do more than just provide jobs . |
29 | For several weeks the project had been the talk of Polruan : the Russell had been put into extended refit , volunteers had been sought by extravagant promises of Spanish prizes and — to prove that this time Harry 's adventure was to be more than just talk — two six-pounder sakers and a couple of falconets had been delivered aboard a hoy from Plymouth , and hoisted onto the Russell 's deck under Harry 's personal supervision . |
30 | Your Bristol & West Mortgage Advisor is the ‘ anchorman ’ ( or woman ) for the whole operation — and does a lot more than just give you a ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ when you ask for a mortgage . |