Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the truth of the problem was lameness , which may affect more than one leg . |
| 2 | But all of them are constantly watching the keyboard for their particular call up command and it is possible that one command may affect more than one accessory — with predictable , and disastrous , results ! |
| 3 | Although the move to representative democracy may reduce the dimensionality , there may remain more than one dimension ( e.g. , ‘ Liberal-non-liberal ’ as well as ‘ left-right ’ ) . |
| 4 | Upon his decision ( or decisions , for the opportunity may arise more than once ) rests the ability of the spirit to learn that lesson and to progress to the next stage in its development . |
| 5 | The idea that literary texts may trigger more than one level of reading is also central to Irene Fairley 's paper , which is a discussion of a corpus of interpretative responses to Sylvia Plath 's poem " Mushrooms " . |
| 6 | No undergraduate may stay longer than four years . |
| 7 | Hence , societies ' encouragement of early marriage as a step towards achievement of a large family may hinder rather than aid attainment of family size goals . |
| 8 | Finally , if the rise in real output per capita is caused by an expansion of investment goods industries and public sector expenditures on the civil service and defence , while at the same time there is a decline in consumer goods industries , then current economic welfare may fall rather than rise . |
| 9 | Because households may include more than one of the ‘ assessment units ’ used by the DHSS to calculate rates of benefit , RNR is based on the sum of the entitlements of each assessment unit within the household . |
| 10 | You may need more than one interview . |
| 11 | You may need more than one sequence to cover all the points about any one piece of apparatus . |
| 12 | 8 No entrant may win more than one prize . |
| 13 | No entrant may win more than one prize . |
| 14 | No competitor may win more than one prize . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to issue a challenge to Michael Fallon : will he explain why he believes people in Darlington should earn less than £3.40 a hour when as a government minister he earned £1,000 a week . ’ |
| 16 | All of this stresses the need to ensure that future development must enhance rather than damage the environment . |
| 17 | In other words , no one working with a computer should be forced into a straightjacket of usage : IT should liberate rather than restrict , and the best applications are those in which the uses are almost boundless . |
| 18 | Currently much effort is being directed at understanding the organizational processes of questioning and debate which such audits should stimulate rather than seeing the problem in terms of administrative techniques alone . |
| 19 | Scott , it declared , ‘ wants a tight rein , and we hope to see it in Lord Palmerston 's hand ’ , but he should resign rather than undertake work in any other than that in which he has distinguished himself . |
| 20 | One example might be the political decision taken in January 1991 that no one must wait longer than two years for an operation by April 1992 , irrespective of clinical need . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh Mister Doyle … you should know better than that . ’ |
| 22 | That infamous attire strangling his glorious body — really a pastiche of desirability — inspired battalions of people who should know better than to wear Lycra shorts . |
| 23 | At your age you should know better than to bring rubbish into the house . |
| 24 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Henry should know better than to keep you cooped up with his books . |
| 26 | Why books should know better than them was puzzling to Bradstonians , but they were anxious to please their visitors so did their best to comply . |
| 27 | You should know better than to walk out into strange streets alone . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You should know better than that , ’ he said and slapped me . |
| 29 | You 're not a kid , you should know better than to sniff round other men 's wives . ’ |
| 30 | What we are seeing nightly on our TV screens is as vile and disgusting a process of racial extermination as anything practised by the Nazis , yet once again the West , including a Britain that should know better than most , is responding in terms which echo chillingly down the years from Hitler , appeasement , Chamberlain and Munich . |