Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] more than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing I hate more than going to an exhibition where there 's nobody there whom I know and there 's nothing there which I like … |
| 2 | ‘ There 's nothing on this earth that I want more than to make love to you , but , if I do , later you 'll regret it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There is nothing I like more than having the house filled with young people . |
| 4 | Whatever the truth of the matter might be , I felt more than justified in assuming that , by the same time tomorrow , I would be able to both see and smell — above all , smell — a real change in the relics . |
| 5 | I have more than made that point in my submission . |
| 6 | This means I have more than paid for my FARMERS WEEKLY subscription for this year … and probably several to come . |
| 7 | Which means more than adding new destinations to our worldwide network and advanced aircraft to our fleet . |
| 8 | The underlying cause of the problem was a 1978 initiative , Proposition 13 , which had more than halved local property taxes , thereby impoverishing local government . |
| 9 | But the interesting people she meets more than makes up for the bad ones . |
| 10 | He moves in the darkness , something you hear more than see . |
| 11 | There is nothing she enjoys more than to talk on her favourite subject . |
| 12 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 13 | For an instant there was nothing she wanted more than to feel the heat of them on hers . |
| 14 | Kelly was ambitious : there was almost nothing she wanted more than to ride winners , to be next year 's champion apprentice , to make it . |
| 15 | Twenty five years ago a band of motoring enthusiasts who wanted more than rallying or racing teamed up to start the All Wheel Drive Club … |
| 16 | Once again the situation of the Black community in Britain — people who have more than contributed to the building of this country — comes into question . |
| 17 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 18 | Nor can we do more than guess at the consequences of the Greek ignorance of Latin . |
| 19 | I mean we we have more than done what was supposed to be to start with to see that it was n't a drain on the parish . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend will concede that we have more than lived up to our promise that our Army of the future , as the Select Committee report said , will be outstandingly well equipped . |
| 21 | For the rest , the euphoria that they experienced more than matched the unpleasantness . |
| 22 | He wanted her to do more than dig and weed . |
| 23 | Realising that it is far too late in her life to expect her to do more than make an effort to modify this trait in her character , you should see if you can direct it away from the home . |
| 24 | While there was certainly an increase in the output of these businesses in the prosperous years of the late 1970s it is doubtful if they did more than keep pace with the fast growth rate for the manufacturing sector as a whole , estimated by the World Bank to be 12 per cent from 1970 to 1982 . |
| 25 | Their often very high and frequently untaxed earnings from gratuities at the large and lavish events at which they serve more than make up for the low basic rates they are paid , the absence of substantial fringe benefits and the existence of a short off-season in which they can not earn . |
| 26 | Between 1964 and 1990 , the number of births outside marriage increased from 63 thousand to 200 thousand , while the proportion of all births that they represent more than quadrupled from 7% to 29% . |
| 27 | The most daunting problem facing Louis Gerstner is that as yet he has absolutely no idea just how much he does n't know — and he will be Superman if in six months he has more than scratched the surface on that problem . |
| 28 | The invitations to foreign races started coming in after he ran ‘ about 162 miles ’ in a 24-race in Chorley , and Zarei has made the most of them , often running ultra races consecutively and by doing so he has more than proved a point about his approach to running . |
| 29 | He has more than earned the right to confront the IRA with the tragic error of their ways and to demand a cease-fire . |
| 30 | His salary is now £143,000 , which means that it has more than trebled in just a couple of years . |