Example sentences of "does more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stavrogin s prodigal scattering of reasons does more than leave the question open . |
| 2 | Basic it still is ; even so it does more than many scientific calculators , and release 2 computes faster , has a proper menu structure , EGA colour capability and is generally bullet-proof . |
| 3 | Officers are supposed to work 150 hours a month , but Frances , 27 , does more . |
| 4 | He says the variable pattern of snowfall does more to affect the figures than anything else . |
| 5 | This is justified by his belief that abstractionism does more than obscure the truth of immaterialism . |
| 6 | does more than suggest that the employer 's demands are unfair . |
| 7 | Rather than being sustained by a vibrant , developing , experimental tradition , the revolutions of modernism may simply have been absorbed by an engrained , infrangible , realist tradition which rarely does more than appropriate a few of the more alluring additions Joyce and others made to ‘ the international store of literary technique ’ . |
| 8 | But the shaper is more than a surgeon or scientist or sculptor : he does more than repair or re-form : he energizes inert matter , turning a slab of foam into a fibreglass dolphin . |
| 9 | One of the chief attractions of the Reader 's Digest DOUBLE PAYOUT PLAN , however , is that it does more than offer you family financial security in the event of your death . |
| 10 | Ironically , a formal process of strategic planning often does more to inhibit than to enhance innovative conceptual thinking … . |
| 11 | Despite the fact that Nicholas does more charity work than most young players and in spite of his regular visits to see sick children at Great Ormond Street Hospital , the image died hard . |
| 12 | On looking back , I now realise that corporal punishment , if administered justly and wisely , does more good than harm . |
| 13 | His book does more than attempt to give comfort to those who have been bereaved . |
| 14 | Mike does more switching than anybody . |
| 15 | Says a German publisher : ‘ Britain 's class system does more to hold back its real entrepreneurs than anything else . |
| 16 | The hospital does more for Britons in a week than Windsor does in a decade . |
| 17 | But listening does more than that , it gives you a chance to learn and to get things into context . |
| 18 | Of course , there are times when a greater sense of control does more than simply enhance the driving experience . |
| 19 | He does more than an ordinary caretaker would do at the small plastics company where he has worked for years . |
| 20 | When you knit with the main bed alone , the sinker plate does more than hold the yarn ; it holds the knitting back against the machine while the needles move forward . |
| 21 | Unlike a computer the brain does more than receive information . |
| 22 | Clearly , the method does more than that , by allowing us to infer how the various attributes affect the price of a drawing : could the subject change the price of a drawing ; how does provenance or technique used affect prices , etc . |
| 23 | The comprehensive text does more than ample justice to the illustrations . |
| 24 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 25 | Like most snakes it can disarticulate its lower jaw from its upper when confronted with a particularly large meal , but it does more than that . |
| 26 | If externalism is a sound stance , then the argument from error is irrelevant ; for it does no more than elaborate on a defective ( though traditional ) approach to epistemology or if it does more , it succeeds only in showing how that defective approach must lead to scepticism . |
| 27 | It could do good but it does more bad |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Madeleine does more or less whatever she wants . ’ |
| 30 | The second approach does more than answer the privity of contract objection : it refutes its basic premise . |