Example sentences of "[det] [det] than [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 2 | Unlike many other organisations , the Church usually gets much more than it pays for , thanks to the generosity of those who provide for its music . |
| 3 | Christine obviously thought she was going to get much less than she expected from Graham Mills ' will . |
| 4 | ‘ Allowing for inflation , it 's very much less than I paid for it . ’ |
| 5 | It came to her now just how little she knew about him — much less than he knew about her life , which was to a great extent an open book , despite his determination to believe she had a dark side . |
| 6 | Will he confirm that tenants who decide to buy under the provisions of the rents-to-mortgages scheme will pay little more than they do in rent ? |
| 7 | ‘ Which is very little more than he paid for it . |
| 8 | I know little more than you do about what we 're doing . ’ |
| 9 | We 'll not be building any more than we intended for this year — well , a house or two more , maybe , but nothing beyond . |
| 10 | The TV detection team did n't fall for it , any more than they did for the man who claimed his set was never used . |
| 11 | They played together a couple of evenings every month , but after that first time by mutual consent they never made love in her house , any more than they did in his . |
| 12 | Second , egged on by their accountants , most banks have been reluctant to appear to endorse FAS107 any more than they have to , for fear of encouraging more stringent market-value accounting rules . |
| 13 | So they er they agree that they have an influence on market prices , but they , they wo n't , are not prepared to pay any more than they have to . |
| 14 | He rolled over and opened his eyes though he did n't look at Dot any more than she looked at him . |
| 15 | Do n't do any more than you have to in order to pay interest on remainder of mortgage ( see 3 , above ) ; |
| 16 | He did n't belong in gardens , any more than he belonged in the company of two small children . |
| 17 | Lou never even looked , on Tuesday and Friday nights , any more than he looked at the instrument he played . |
| 18 | She did n't want to be with him , any more than he wanted to be with her . |
| 19 | He did not do himself justice in 1991 , never getting his timing right in his early-season preparations any more than he did on the golf course . |
| 20 | ‘ We do not choose this condition any more than someone chooses to be a diabetic , ’ he said . |
| 21 | not apply , any more than it does to all garden plants , There are certainly some , the Mediterranean group for example , which includes oregano , lavender , rosemary and thyme , that grow in this sort of environment , but there are many more which need such conditions as shade , moisture , plenty of food , or deep soil , or they may want varying combinations of these , or any of them combined with their opposites . |
| 22 | But wherever she works , a woman-centred psychologist 's sex does not guarantee her feminism , any more than it does for an egalitarian feminist psychologist . |
| 23 | I think not : in Case 145/88 the court had no need to rely on the criterion of proportionality — any more than it does in these cases — since it was immediately apparent , as it is now in these proceedings , that the obstacles created by the national legislation in question certainly were not , and are not , of such a kind as to compel the member state to dispense with a measure necessary for the attainment of a justified objective . |
| 24 | Until very late in the day , the possibility of their downfall does not seem to have occurred to Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu , any more than it had to Zhivkov or Honecker . |
| 25 | To be sure , the last page of the last chapter had not been written at the death of the last apostle any more than it had at the death of the Messiah ; but , like him , the disciples enjoyed the characteristic gift of the end , the Holy Spirit whom the prophets knew would be poured out in the last days . |
| 26 | Of course it need not follow that separate assessment must have cast the younger members of every family as wage earners , any more than it did in other shires where traces of an emergent discrete labouring class were already manifest . |
| 27 | This did not exclude close if unequal personal relations any more than it did in slave societies . |
| 28 | Clearly I can not get along entirely on factual information , any more than I infer from the mere facts how to act here and now . |
| 29 | I mean I do n't want to enhance the cost of that any more than I have to . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't belong in his life , any more than I belong in yours or in anybody 's . |