Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj] [noun] than [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pace allied to skill : if you start by having players of pace in most positions , you will win more matches than you lose ’ , he said . |
| 2 | When buying cutlery , do n't buy more pieces than you need . |
| 3 | According to the Thera-vada school of Buddhism , the Southern Buddhism of Burma , Ceylon , Siam and Cambodia , there is no grace from outside man 's being to support , strengthen and save him ; he must rely on his own efforts , and the task will need more lives than one , countless lives in this world , alternating perhaps with lives in a heaven or hell . |
| 4 | You have probably already … . ’ — she looked viciously at her son , for a moment , making him flinch from her temper-'Women do not need more men than they have to put up with . ’ |
| 5 | Darwin was beginning to realise that the naturalists at the Zoological Society might need more information than he had provided in his notes . |
| 6 | Nancy appreciates that others might need more time than she takes , to absorb and follow her instructions . |
| 7 | Might the university expect better grades than they asked for previously ? |
| 8 | To the extent that R&D is undertaken by independent firms merely in order to ensure that they innovate before their rivals or to prevent rivals from producing new products which displace those that currently generate rents , then firms who make R&D decisions co-operatively may do less R&D than they would if they were independent . |
| 9 | performance and my sub team , of course they can clear more complaints than you 're sub teams , they 're getting the dross in . |
| 10 | An intervention with a low probability of harm given to millions can do more damage than one with a high probability of harm given to a few |
| 11 | It is important that our colleagues and the public recognise that although , in general , preventive strategies by their nature are likely to involve minimal risk , this does not mean zero risk ; an intervention with a low probability of harm given to millions can do more damage than one with a high probability of harm given to few . |
| 12 | It is possible for these to ‘ run away from you ’ , and they can do more damage than you 'd imagine . |
| 13 | A drainage ditch around them would probably do more good than anything else . |
| 14 | One such exception concerns circumstances where a particular person does not have close relatives , where there seems to be an expectation that kin in the outer circle should give more support than they otherwise might , as it were deputizing or substituting for the non-existent children or parents . |
| 15 | He had never heard anyone give more orders than his present Bishop and he dearly wanted to try his hand . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , ’ said Milton , ‘ I have to admit that if you 're very old , short-term solutions must carry more weight than they would for the middle-aged . |
| 17 | Consequently , at the bottom of the scale , the agent may collect more money than his client in compensation . |
| 18 | Even if deterrence failed , such attacks would inflict more injury than anything that the British could hope to achieve with conventional forces . |
| 19 | In consequence , they are less concerned to fashion a constitution that would limit democratic politics than they are to introduce a constitution that would facilitate a new type of democratic politics that would then make more likely coalition government and the kind of moderate , stable , policies which they regard as at one with the broad mass of public opinion and in the national interest itself . |
| 20 | You do have to compromise a fair bit and I suppose that I would like more freedom than I 've got . |
| 21 | Midlanders would like more sex than they get . |
| 22 | Follow the instructions on the packets to be sure you do n't use more detergent than you need |
| 23 | Now if I were Alwyn I would not be too proud of winning a competition to see who could use more cliches than anyone else . |
| 24 | So , for example , although a family of four will use more water than someone living alone , the costs of providing the water and sewerage services will be almost the same for both households . |
| 25 | Indeed , it can be argued that a profusion of cash books and bank accounts would provide more problems than it would solve , particularly to financial managers concerned with managing the organization 's cash resources as a whole . |
| 26 | ‘ Home-made-Wills ’ can create more problems than they solve . |
| 27 | However attractive the idea of a director general sounds , it could create more problems than it would solve |
| 28 | This leads to accusations that counselling can actually create more problems than it resolves , indeed , that it can actually contribute to increasing people 's problems . |
| 29 | It was occasionally recognised , however , that self-defence might create more problems than it solved , as when Mr Punch recovered his wit and arranged for two anti-garotters to meet one dark night in a lonely street : |
| 30 | Historically records have usually been preserved because organisations thought that they were important for their own work , and departing from this principle might well create more problems than it would solve . |