Example sentences of "[vb -s] [det] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This example shows that tailing has more than prevented the loss of £22 424 from meeting variation margin payments . |
| 2 | The most daunting problem facing Louis Gerstner is that as yet he has absolutely no idea just how much he does n't know — and he will be Superman if in six months he has more than scratched the surface on that problem . |
| 3 | He has more than earned the right to confront the IRA with the tragic error of their ways and to demand a cease-fire . |
| 4 | The Conservative Government has more than halved the top rate of tax . |
| 5 | He , Jacob , who has wrestled with God all night and has more than survived the experience , now grovels before his brother ! |
| 6 | The invitations to foreign races started coming in after he ran ‘ about 162 miles ’ in a 24-race in Chorley , and Zarei has made the most of them , often running ultra races consecutively and by doing so he has more than proved a point about his approach to running . |
| 7 | ABOUT 2,000 young Sunday footballers intend to rally in Dundee City Square this weekend in protest at council plans more than to triple the cost of pitches and dressing rooms . |
| 8 | However , Matza is anxious to avoid romanticising deviance ; he sees this as having an equally distorting effect by obscuring ‘ the seamier and more mundane aspects of the world ’ . |
| 9 | At each Hour a verse from the hymn is followed by a prayer which acknowledges this and sees the Incarnation as the means by which all men , both living and dead , can be united : The office thus daily rehearsed the historical story of the Passion of Christ and its significance in such a way that it is constantly renewed in human awareness through both the linear and cyclical experience of the passing of time . |
| 10 | The Council recognises this and seeks a 6.5% reduction target for that year . |
| 11 | The idea of a book each a year from the three editors seemed to calm him and I am sure he realizes that this involves more than reading the one script . |
| 12 | Learning a language , as Halliday ( 1984 ) and Hymes ( 1971 ) amongst others have pointed out , involves more than acquiring a grammatical system that will generate well-formed sentences . |
| 13 | Allocating your time properly entails more than multiplying the marks by 1.8 . |
| 14 | Another possibility , for example , uses the same concept of a filter set , but instead of taking the definition as a whole , takes the separate senses and progressively eliminates those that show the least overlap with the filter set . |
| 15 | ‘ Literacy means more than learning a code or writing a word . |
| 16 | They are certainly comfortable and assured , but at the same time they have no real chance of converting others to their views , at least if conversion means more than expressing the hope that God will send faith to others too . |
| 17 | Thus Verkehrsberuhigung was described as ‘ an unfortunate word ’ , because it means more than making the traffic quiet , it means making surrounding areas better . |
| 18 | This means more than booking the physiotherapist to come and carry out postural drainage on a person with a chest infection , or ‘ getting the psychotherapist in ’ to try to help a distressed client . |
| 19 | Nice chap and he teaches creative writing in Glasgow , used to be a teacher then a teacher trainer and then I think took early retirement and he does this but made the point that he simply uses it for extra income for pleasure and interest as opposed I suppose to a way of writing you know so |
| 20 | When you knit with the main bed alone , the sinker plate does more than hold the yarn ; it holds the knitting back against the machine while the needles move forward . |
| 21 | This is justified by his belief that abstractionism does more than obscure the truth of immaterialism . |
| 22 | Sometimes a guarantee does more than qualify the benefits which it gives . |
| 23 | The second approach does more than answer the privity of contract objection : it refutes its basic premise . |
| 24 | Stavrogin s prodigal scattering of reasons does more than leave the question open . |
| 25 | Rather than being sustained by a vibrant , developing , experimental tradition , the revolutions of modernism may simply have been absorbed by an engrained , infrangible , realist tradition which rarely does more than appropriate a few of the more alluring additions Joyce and others made to ‘ the international store of literary technique ’ . |