Example sentences of "do [adj] than [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Some of the visitors , however , would do more than stand on the harbourside to watch , they would put to sea with a crew for a night 's fishing . |
| 3 | Nor can we do more than guess at the consequences of the Greek ignorance of Latin . |
| 4 | The absence of any prospect of being able to do more than survive on the finances available to them can be deeply depressing . |
| 5 | In 1957 , costs were too uncertain and experience too limited in putting together so complex a weapon system for the Treasury to do more than impress on the Air Staff that the TSR 2 must be accommodated within the Air Ministry 's financial ceilings . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |