Example sentences of "any [det] than [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll not be building any more than we intended for this year — well , a house or two more , maybe , but nothing beyond . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He rolled over and opened his eyes though he did n't look at Dot any more than she looked at him . |
| 7 | Do n't do any more than you have to in order to pay interest on remainder of mortgage ( see 3 , above ) ; |
| 8 | He did n't belong in gardens , any more than he belonged in the company of two small children . |
| 9 | Lou never even looked , on Tuesday and Friday nights , any more than he looked at the instrument he played . |
| 10 | She did n't want to be with him , any more than he wanted to be with her . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ We do not choose this condition any more than someone chooses to be a diabetic , ’ he said . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This did not exclude close if unequal personal relations any more than it did in slave societies . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I mean I do n't want to enhance the cost of that any more than I have to . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't belong in his life , any more than I belong in yours or in anybody 's . |
| 23 | I do n't wish to offend you any more than I need to … ’ |
| 24 | ‘ For your information , I do n't believe in double standards for men — any more than I believe in them for women . |