Example sentences of "[verb] [det] than [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly the same did not occur in the UK ; the increased propensity to offend more than counterbalanced the decline in the high-offender groups in the population ( Liddelow 1990 ) . |
| 2 | This example shows that tailing has more than prevented the loss of £22 424 from meeting variation margin payments . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He has more than earned the right to confront the IRA with the tragic error of their ways and to demand a cease-fire . |
| 5 | The Conservative Government has more than halved the top rate of tax . |
| 6 | He , Jacob , who has wrestled with God all night and has more than survived the experience , now grovels before his brother ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 'd rather do that than kill the Hydra . |
| 9 | ABOUT 2,000 young Sunday footballers intend to rally in Dundee City Square this weekend in protest at council plans more than to triple the cost of pitches and dressing rooms . |
| 10 | Again , on the face of the statute , I can not see any reason why in this case the constable should do more than tell the driver the reason under section 7(3) why breath specimens can not be taken or used ; tell him that in these circumstances he is required to give a specimen of blood or urine but that it is for the constable to decide which ; warn him that a failure to provide the specimen required may render him liable to prosecution ; and then , if the constable decides to require blood , ask the driver if there are any reasons why a specimen can not or should not be taken from him by a doctor . |
| 11 | Britain doubted whether the UN could do more than to postpone the day when Soviet domination over Korea was established . |
| 12 | I do not pretend that these notions can do more than offer a way of thinking about the quantum world with some hope of doing justice both to the idiosyncrasy of its ways and also to the beautiful structure of the microworld which has been laid bare by the discoveries of elementary particle physics . |
| 13 | Although this programme can not do more than offer an introduction to the mastery of the skills needed by instructors , it is nevertheless of considerable importance in that it is a measured and significant attempt to provide the sort of training upon which the success of YOP and , even more important its successor , the Youth Training Scheme , will depend . |
| 14 | Tighter immigration controls , visa restrictions , a shrinking of the right of asylum , can not do more than reduce the rate of immigration . |
| 15 | Si paid more than triple the estimate for False Start when Sotheby 's New York auctioned the collection of the late Victor Granz . |
| 16 | In Sweden , again , there was a series of efforts during the eighteenth century to regulate more rationally the salaries paid to different ranks of diplomat , though there as elsewhere it was easier to do this than to pay the salaries regularly . |
| 17 | In practical terms , selling a house through an estate agent can not possibly cost more than using a solicitor . |
| 18 | How many people at breakfast time bother to do more than turn the set on , knowing that both channels are transmitting roughly similar programmes ? |
| 19 | Occasionally , very occasionally , a lone knight in armour rode into Ridgery Butts from the east and plunged straight down one of the forest paths without pausing to do more than pass the time of day at the Inn and drink ale . |
| 20 | With the need for speedy disposal of the dead — and that organized by others than the coffin-makers — together with a dwindling supply of wood in the face of more work than they could handle , few involved in the trade were going to do more than fabricate a utilitarian box of standard shape . |
| 21 | Any use of force , according to this view , had to do more than hold the lines on the battlefield ; it had also to allow the Bosnian government the chance to fight and retake territory it had lost . |
| 22 | Effective management of a county interest required the politician to do more than strike a bargain in which a vote , or votes , was the return for immediate patronage . |
| 23 | In a contested election , however , it was impossible to do much with direct patronage , even if such were available , for there was never enough to do more than grease the palms of a handful of venal men , most of whom were to be found in the burgh councils . |
| 24 | In offices with E-mail systems a fax can be copied to hundreds of different destinations without having to do more than make a few entries on the key-board . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As the process of learning is hidden , it is not accessible to direct influence ; however , it is possible for the teacher to do more than tell the student what she needs to learn . |
| 27 | In the course of one short chapter it is not possible , nor indeed necessary , to do more than suggest the richness of the material which , with a little study , can be interpreted to throw light on former ages . |
| 28 | I have not been able to do more than suggest the rough outline of this approach . |
| 29 | John Major will need to do more than provide a discreet crossing from worthy words to anti-social acts . |
| 30 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |