Example sentences of "more [subord] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At that time women were still employed underground in Cumberland filling the baskets as well as at surface tasks , while the wives of Staffordshire pitmen were said seldom to " do more than attend to the necessary calls of the Family " except for helping with the harvest . |
| 3 | She was beset by the realization that she desired nothing more than to go to the Hall as Anne Mowbray 's companion . |
| 4 | I had always been keen on hillwalking and loved nothing more than escaping to the peace of the hills with my three oldest and closest friends . |
| 5 | He was himself later to acknowledge the inadequacy of a production policy that drew so heavily on stage plays , particularly at a period before the arrival of sound when it was impossible , for example , to do more than allude to the savagery of Noël Coward 's attack on his social set in The Vortex ( 1927 ) . |
| 6 | But Paying Your Way was not respectable , any more than Keeping To The Left . |
| 7 | There was a developing awareness that politics went beyond the institutions of government , and that the connections between state and society involved more than attending to the formal implications of regular general elections and the play of party politics . |