Example sentences of "[pron] have more than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have more than made that point in my submission . |
| 2 | This means I have more than paid for my FARMERS WEEKLY subscription for this year … and probably several to come . |
| 3 | The underlying cause of the problem was a 1978 initiative , Proposition 13 , which had more than halved local property taxes , thereby impoverishing local government . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He has more than earned the right to confront the IRA with the tragic error of their ways and to demand a cease-fire . |
| 11 | His salary is now £143,000 , which means that it has more than trebled in just a couple of years . |
| 12 | It has more than fulfilled its founding fathers ' two objectives : to rebuild the economy of a shattered Europe , and to bury the hatchet between France and Germany and so bind together the nations of Europe that they would never go to war again . |
| 13 | But it has more than paid for itself in improved factory efficiency , said Bob Pruitt , operations manager of Thatcher Tubes , Florence — part of Courtaulds Packaging . |
| 14 | Remembering my conversations with him at the end of 1975 and the beginning of 1976 , it was clear that he wanted fresh fields to conquer , that he thought he had more than proved himself as a racing driver and that he thought he could , with no great difficulty , follow a Bruce McLaren , for instance , and make his own way in cars of his own . |