Example sentences of "more than [vb base] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ We do n't believe that these adverts are specific enough to do more than stimulate people 's interest in our general services , ’ said . |
| 3 | The expert may need to do more than receive submissions , and directions should be given about the arrangements for physical inspections , site visits and the like . |
| 4 | Unlike a computer the brain does more than receive information . |
| 5 | However , despite an apparent dictum to the contrary , the Torquay Hotel principle does not , it is submitted , extend to imposing liability in a case where A has , without any unlawful act , done no more than persuade B to exercise an option open to him under his contract with C , for example , to terminate it by proper notice , for so to hold would be to draw an indefensible distinction between existing , but terminable , relationships and those which are merely prospective , and render it necessary to fall back on the defence of justification in order , for example , lawfully to persuade an employee to change his employment for higher pay . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even the Republic had felt far from confident about forming a long-term colonial policy ; Cromwell 's Council had invited merchants to say what should be done , but had not had time to do much more than conquer Jamaica and revive the East India Company . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It did little more than endorse reforms already introduced : the second ecumenical Council of the Lateran ( 1139 ) did likewise . |
| 11 | For the past six years , however , she had done little more than declare things open , or say a few words of thanks in public . |
| 12 | President Joseph Momoh was quoted on April 6 as stating that the army had done no more than pursue rebels across the frontier . |
| 13 | But cruise and Pershing 11 missiles do more than maintain deterrence in the face of a growing threat . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Pedantic or fearful , Nicholas was reluctant to do more than ask Turkey to abide by earlier Russo-Turkish agreements . |
| 16 | WOW ! does , however , as its full title suggests , aim to do more than teach youngsters to discuss their favourite clothes and poop groups . |
| 17 | ( The top prize in this group went to a writer who also started his career in these pages , Duncan Campbell , who now regales readers of another weekly with stories of government intrigue that clearly appeal to competition judges more than do articles on technology . ) |
| 18 | Subsequent discrimination training thus occurs between the compound of A and its associate X and of B and its associate Y. If the events used as X and Y differ from each other more than do A and B ( see Fig. 5.10(b) ) then it might be supposed that the compounds would be discriminated more readily than would an untrained A and B. Certainly most proponents of an associative account for acquired distinctiveness effects have taken their analysis no further , implying that the phenomenon follows directly from what has just been said . |
| 19 | SMALL SELF-ADMINISTERED PENSION SCHEMES offer major attractions for director-controlled companies because they can do much more than provide directors ' pensions . |
| 20 | This Important feature enables a waveform detection system to do much more than provide signals confirming step completion in high speed systems . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | To obtain that information you need do little more than watch people . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As it was , the dying Count could do no more than give instructions that his body should not be buried until Henry had promised to observe the terms of his father 's will . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 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 | The historian , perhaps , can do little more than echo Disraeli 's pregnant remark in Sybil , Book IV , Chapter I : ‘ when parties are in the present state of equality , the Sovereign is no longer a mere pageant . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | More than 10,000 companies failed with debts of more than Yen 10M , nearly twice the level in the previous worst year , 1985 . |