Example sentences of "[det] more [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have liked some more but it did not seem appropriate . |
| 2 | The Western mentality — conditioned to regard physical objects as clear-cut and isolated — remains largely unaware that the physical level is only one significant level of reality , obscuring much more than it reveals . |
| 3 | Unlike many other organisations , the Church usually gets much more than it pays for , thanks to the generosity of those who provide for its music . |
| 4 | She married Harry ‘ because of his laugh and she had thought that the expression in his blue eyes meant much more than it did ’ she did n't dwell on the subject of her life too much . |
| 5 | Thereafter it rose again to about £91,000 per annum in the last five years of the reign , little more than it had been at the start . |
| 6 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 7 | The booty did not teach the Pisans how to engage in trade , any more than it taught them how to govern . |
| 8 | The social transformation brought about by the enfranchisement , economic as well as political , of working populations has not impaired the regard for precious substances as symbols of excellence in every field of endeavour , any more than it lessened the hunger for personal jewellery remarked in our opening chapter . |
| 9 | Literature does not copy language any more than it copies reality . |
| 10 | It can not have pleased Kimon , the Spartans ' friend , any more than it pleased politicians of more obviously radical complexion . |
| 11 | But wherever she works , a woman-centred psychologist 's sex does not guarantee her feminism , any more than it does for an egalitarian feminist psychologist . |
| 12 | I think not : in Case 145/88 the court had no need to rely on the criterion of proportionality — any more than it does in these cases — since it was immediately apparent , as it is now in these proceedings , that the obstacles created by the national legislation in question certainly were not , and are not , of such a kind as to compel the member state to dispense with a measure necessary for the attainment of a justified objective . |
| 13 | not apply , any more than it does to all garden plants , There are certainly some , the Mediterranean group for example , which includes oregano , lavender , rosemary and thyme , that grow in this sort of environment , but there are many more which need such conditions as shade , moisture , plenty of food , or deep soil , or they may want varying combinations of these , or any of them combined with their opposites . |
| 14 | His own faith did not have the answers to this , any more than it had the power to prevent the catastrophe , which exacerbated Leonard 's growing disaffection from it , or , should we say , his endless self-questioning of it . |
| 15 | Until very late in the day , the possibility of their downfall does not seem to have occurred to Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu , any more than it had to Zhivkov or Honecker . |
| 16 | To be sure , the last page of the last chapter had not been written at the death of the last apostle any more than it had at the death of the Messiah ; but , like him , the disciples enjoyed the characteristic gift of the end , the Holy Spirit whom the prophets knew would be poured out in the last days . |
| 17 | It simply does not follow that because the legal forms have been observed , the results are more reliable ; any more than it follows that whenever the forms are breached , the results are unreliable . |
| 18 | Of course it need not follow that separate assessment must have cast the younger members of every family as wage earners , any more than it did in other shires where traces of an emergent discrete labouring class were already manifest . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't think it would matter to you any more than it did before . ’ |
| 20 | This did not exclude close if unequal personal relations any more than it did in slave societies . |
| 21 | The interest of some countries , notably Romania , in a doctrine of ‘ national defence ’ has not impressed Poland 's military commanders any more than it has their Soviet patrons . |
| 22 | If you feel you 're going to be sick , just try not to be , and do n't drink any more till it passes off , otherwise it 'll all be wasted , wo n't it ? |
| 23 | But the bullseye was n't there any more because it had moved . |