Example sentences of "more than [vb base] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an old story , and Nicholas did no more than pull a molasses-type face . |
| 2 | The summary of the Webbs ' view is that , by contrast with their model of Socialism , Owen 's scheme — if it could have been carried out — would have done no more than redistribute the capital of the country without altering or superseding the capitalist system in the least . |
| 3 | Even a Trinidad deal does little more than bring the amount of interest that Africans owe closer to what they are managing to pay anyway . |
| 4 | When his father died he felt nothing and had done nothing more than take a day off for the funeral . |
| 5 | Because ‘ communication ’ is such a wide-ranging subject , this essay can do little more than survey a few distinct areas of study . |
| 6 | The likely result is that this wording does no more than track the law as laid down in Jones v Sherwood Computer Services plc [ 1991 ] NPC 60 : see 13.6 . |
| 7 | This is justified by his belief that abstractionism does more than obscure the truth of immaterialism . |
| 8 | The sun was shining at two thousand feet , but it did no more than lacquer the fog . |
| 9 | Nobody who is sensible or sane would say that we should export more arms to a country that is already awash with them , because it would do little more than increase the bloodshed that has already stained that country . |
| 10 | These words , however , as counsel for the respondent correctly pointed out , do no more than indicate the circumstances in which consent may be negatived . |
| 11 | You may also find icons which do no more than invoke an error message because the associated program or file has been erased from the harddisk . |
| 12 | The general principles just outlined apply in sale of goods , for although there are sections of the Sale of Goods Act governing the assessment of damages , those sections do little more than embody the general principles . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , if cost effectiveness is seen as a relevant criterion , the potential savings in accident costs alone promise to more than recoup the outlay on the environmental traffic management schemes . |
| 14 | The enthusiasm of the sixties ( it was not just naivety ) would have held that education should lead the whole process , while the cynicism of the seventies and eighties would have us believe that education , that is schools at any rate , can do no more than mirror the society of which they are part . |
| 15 | It is clear , furthermore , that Categories 1 and 2 do not impose an evidential burden on the defendant as far as the consent issue is concerned , for generally speaking , where the defence seeks to do no more than deny the prosecution 's assertion , it is entitled to have its claims placed before the jury . |
| 16 | Arguably , the defence has no evidential burden to discharge in this situation , for , since the defence is seeking to do no more than deny the basic elements of the prosecution 's case , any assertion of consent by the defence should be placed before the jury . |
| 17 | Designed to nip in the bud any incipient growth in villages , it was successful , so far as the city was concerned , probably because it did no more than sanction the existing situation , even though in the fifteenth century the trade had flourished at Hartlebury , which remained an important centre of the specialised craft of fulling . |
| 18 | Sometimes a guarantee does more than qualify the benefits which it gives . |
| 19 | But it seemed even that could do little more than dull the edges of the pain , and , when she woke up one morning with a painful hangover and realised the ache in her heart was just as strong as it had ever been , she swore she 'd never again attempt to deal with her sorrows that way . |
| 20 | When you knit with the main bed alone , the sinker plate does more than hold the yarn ; it holds the knitting back against the machine while the needles move forward . |
| 21 | Any use of force , according to this view , had to do more than hold the lines on the battlefield ; it had also to allow the Bosnian government the chance to fight and retake territory it had lost . |
| 22 | Effective management of a county interest required the politician to do more than strike a bargain in which a vote , or votes , was the return for immediate patronage . |
| 23 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 24 | However , they can do no more than recommend the best of the available options and even in expert hands the treatment of anorexia nervous must still be considered unsatisfactory . |
| 25 | To the extent that functioning markets have emerged — notably in the car parks of every big city — they do little more than recycle the small supply of consumer goods . |
| 26 | His argument deploys the old jargon of authenticity , now combined with the jargon of otherness ; despite his Hegelian framework , Scruton deploys this jargon as an exalted metaphor which does little more than bestow a spurious profundity on a normative sexual politics which is at heart timid , conservative , and deeply ignorant . |
| 27 | AI programs are primarily symbolic processes that do more than follow an algorithm , as in traditional ( procedural ) computing . |
| 28 | The proprietors could not do much more than launch a rather fragile settlement around Charleston , and even this could not be occupied continuously until 1681 . |
| 29 | How many people at breakfast time bother to do more than turn the set on , knowing that both channels are transmitting roughly similar programmes ? |
| 30 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |