Example sentences of "more than [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader of a description needs therefore to be careful about accepting as a description anything more than is actually visible on the canvas or in the sculpture . |
| 2 | But there is more to be said about Lawrence ; much more than was usually said in the days when he was celebrated as a prophet of straight liberation , and more than is oft en said when he is castigated from the vantage point of contemporary sexual politics . |
| 3 | Care must be taken not to read more than is said into reports from others , particularly since the Regulations exclude access to the original report but a teacher 's use of it may be on the record . |
| 4 | They can always do more than is required , and how they do it is left open ; but they may not do less . |
| 5 | You actually see far more than is registered in your conscious mind — and this is probably a good thing . |
| 6 | Better , I reckon , to allow more than is necessary , than too little . |
| 7 | There is no doubt that most people in Britain eat far more than they need , and probably more than is good for them . |
| 8 | Far more than is suspected are inefficient wives responsible for the misery of many back-street homes , and it is perhaps more than a coincidence that some of the Lancashire towns with the worst repute for their high rate of infant mortality have no girls ' club within their areas . |
| 9 | Teachers become more efficient at writing objectives the more they practise , so that they can soon reach the stage where the time taken is no more than is required for planning anyway . |
| 10 | No one is going to want to hear about your aches and pains , but that is no reason why you should suffer more than is necessary . |
| 11 | They should then be plugged into their holders , handling them no more than is really necessary , and avoiding any obvious sources of static electricity . |
| 12 | When I am trying to be stricter than usual with myself , I plan a really busy week so that I am out more than is customary . |
| 13 | Besides , meanwhile , I 'm still smoking more than is good for me . |
| 14 | On the present analysis , moving to the viewpoints of other persons is not in itself a moral act , any more than is temporal viewpoint-shifting , so that a reduced capacity for either is not a moral but a cognitive defect . |
| 15 | ‘ But people think doctors have this inborn compassion and willingness to do more than is absolutely necessary for you . |
| 16 | This is slightly more than is predicted if the movement were that of a simple piston . |
| 17 | It is not , any more than is the case in natural science . |
| 18 | Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep . |
| 19 | Services which do not intervene more than is necessary to promote independence . |
| 20 | Although these may produce useful information , Ministers are skilled in revealing no more than is necessary . |
| 21 | This remedy must be pursued with caution as the amount of force used must be no more than is reasonable in the circumstances . |
| 22 | That is not to say that a perfect democracy is in the end attainable , any more than is perfect freedom or perfect justice . |
| 23 | Three years and some months since leaving him , I had satisfied myself that , in picking me as a wife , he had done no more than is required to select a fruit from a dish with the prospect of some fleeting juiciness , but no lasting nourishment . |
| 24 | It is established in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights that the word ‘ necessary ’ in this context implies the existence of a pressing social need , and that interference with freedom of expression should be no more than is proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued . |
| 25 | It is established in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights that the word ‘ necessary ’ in this context implies the existence of a pressing social need , and that interference with freedom of expression should be no more than is proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued . |
| 26 | The lessee is not a surety for the assignee , any more than is the assignee the agent of the lessee . |
| 27 | No more than is inevitable , and manageable . |
| 28 | They are quite expensive and contain substantially more than is usually needed . |
| 29 | One side advantage of using these human interest aspects of the police procedural is that here at least you will have to do no research , or no more than is required by looking into your own heart . |
| 30 | In the past farm workers worked alongside each other in gangs or small groups far more than is customary today and meal breaks would also be taken together out in the fields . |