Example sentences of "[adj] more [to-vb] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is much more to gain than to lose from the proposals for co-decision . |
| 2 | The physicists who felt they had left their successors with little more to do than to clean up a few minor problems expressed the same mood as August Schleicher , who was sure that ancient Aryans had talked exactly the putative language which he had reconstructed for them . |
| 3 | The preparations for the party were set to move into top gear on the Saturday morning ; Diane would have little more to do than to stand aside and watch the professionals at work . |
| 4 | While Miller was preparing the Kalendar , he was told of the ‘ ungenerous intention ’ of others to use Dictionary information for the same purpose , ‘ upon which I was the more intent to have it published before such a design could be accomplished by any other hand , which was not very difficult for me to do , having a complete Diary of my own , so that I had little more to do than to transcribe my loose papers and dispose them into the method wherein they are here presented to the world . ’ |
| 5 | The tape controlled the entire show , including all lighting cues , and the stage manager would have little more to do than read his newspaper and greenlight the girls as they waited in the wings . |