Example sentences of "[verb] [det] than [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Hill , the party 's unflappable director of communications , has more than adequately filled the role performed by Peter Mandelson in 1987 . |
| 2 | He has more than likely planned the expedition for the half of the day when it is not Northumberland Avenue 's turn for heating . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The pictures , on the other hand , must do more than just illustrate the story . |
| 5 | You can do more than just watch a programme once , straight through . |
| 6 | However , if artistic representations of my experience are to do more than merely reflect a personal trauma , it is imperative that the work connect with the common experiences of other women in the same or similar situations . |
| 7 | But to win this game takes more than just knowing the right moves , donning the groovy gear and asking Mr Barber for ‘ a dishy pop-star cut , please ’ . |
| 8 | Oblige , like force , evokes more than merely producing an effect and it too is followed by the to infinitive : ( 164 ) … servants , whom he had obliged to accompany him . |
| 9 | Removing a Windows application involves more than just deleting the icon from the Program Manager . |
| 10 | Setting up a task involves more than just typing the job in a box and putting it onto your timescale . |
| 11 | But cutting greenhouse emissions from transport will take more than just improving the efficiency of cars and trucks . |
| 12 | In effect , under the present system a voter is doing more than simply choosing a parliamentary representative . |
| 13 | We did more than just have a go when a golfing blue from Cambridge , whose other forte was history , joined the staff . |
| 14 | This suggests that speakers do more than simply animate a persona now and again for narrative purposes : they actually switch " selves " from time to time , depending on " who " they want to be at a particular moment , relative to their interlocutor . |
| 15 | Operators also do more than just answer the phone . |
| 16 | For it does more than simply put a face to the pictures . |
| 17 | Of course , there are times when a greater sense of control does more than simply enhance the driving experience . |
| 18 | Once more , you want to aim with your research not just to acquire enough facts spread over your pages to give a feeling of the times , but to acquire so many that you have enough and to spare and can choose among your store for the one that does more than merely give a notion of the time you are writing about . |
| 19 | I suggested that they had more than likely received a stern lecture in lieu of a death sentence ; in the world of Arabs , blame for unsanctioned sex is placed wholly on the shoulders of the female . |