Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [noun] than it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally the nature of the various styles , high , middle and low , needs more elucidation than it gets in this book ( cf. pp. 70 – 71 ) if it is to form a central plank of the discussion of lexis . |
| 2 | Many of them are being forced to turn the crop into cattle feed because Britain has more potatos than it needs . |
| 3 | As it stands , this claim raises more problems than it solves . |
| 4 | Inevitably the preliminary review presented in this chapter raises more questions than it answers . |
| 5 | Pop creates more problems than it solves . |
| 6 | Yet the editor of the Sunday Times explained his paper 's coverage and position in a way which begs more questions than it answers . |
| 7 | Sarah : I define myself as a socialist lesbian feminist , but of course that in some sense begs more questions than it answers . |
| 8 | Nigeria 's rainforests have been so exploited for logs that the country now imports more hardwood than it exports . |
| 9 | It deserves more hype than it needs . |
| 10 | This healthy contribution of commercial interests , which , after all , have experience and technical know-how which is often in short supply in ministries , deserves more recognition than it has received , especially since it does much to offset the squalid tale of the involvement by one British company at this time in corrupt monopoly state publishing ventures during the Obote and Nkrumah governments in Uganda and Ghana . |
| 11 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |
| 12 | At best they re-describe perception in a manner that actually generates more problems than it solves . |