Example sentences of "more [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 2 | In the first place , many of the leading figures in the National government feared the rise of communism in Germany , Italy and Spain rather more than they feared the rise of European fascism . |
| 3 | Labour and the SNP hate each other more than they hate the Tories . |
| 4 | They shelled out £2.5bn on food , fags and booze last year — 32% more than they did the year before . |
| 5 | Again , since the adoption of the 1.68 ball , European golfers have , perforce , worked the ball much more than they did the 1.62 . |
| 6 | And they would n't want that , any more than they wanted the Firm to have them . |
| 7 | We do not yet know what it is in a homoeopathic potency that has a curative action , nor do we know how homoeopathic remedies work in the body any more than we know the mechanisms of action of many of the conventional drugs used in medicine . |
| 8 | But our dog does not understand the word ‘ sit ’ in the way we do any more than we understand the nuances of his barking in the way that he does . |
| 9 | Most other birds of prey will fight if there 's more than one chasing the same prey . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | On principle , Ferdinand refuses , and the head maltster realizes that this threatens him more than it does the writer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The stitching takes a long time and hurts Stig a lot more than it hurts the rest of us . |
| 14 | ‘ It would bore the rest of the company even more than it did the first time . ’ |
| 15 | Or ( for a woman ) is your period due and that is causing you to weigh more than usual ? perhaps you ate more than you realized the previous week ? |
| 16 | I 've all you spend your time doing , more than you spend the time with the kids , is cleaning two |
| 17 | Of those left behind , none more than he knew the awesome dangers implicit in the recall signal from G9 . |
| 18 | But he wanted the living place more than he wanted the shop . |
| 19 | With just under six years of office still to run , Mr Ozal presumably calculates that the party needs his popularity much more than he needs the party — particularly if there is to be an early general election to take advantage of an alliance victory in the Gulf war . |
| 20 | I do n't suppose he remembers her name now , any more than he remembers the names of the dozens of other women he seduced during the ten years of our marriage . |
| 21 | Few there be , are there few that be saved , well what does the bible say about this , first of all it teaches abundantly clearly that all may be saved , God is not partial , God has no favourites , he does n't love you more than he loves any body else , he does n't love me more than he loves you or you more than me , he does n't love you more than he loves ah any other racial group or any other ethnic group , he loves us all the same God so loved the world that he gave his only son Jesus Christ , here in his love , not that we love God says the apostle but that he loved us , the old testament profit reminds us that he has loved us with an ever lasting love , who , this was one of the hang ups that the Jewish nation had , they thought that they were the cats whiskers , he chose them , but he in fact did n't love them any more than he loved the , the hitites , the parasites , the gergasites and all the other ites , he loved them all the same , God is not partial in his love because he is love , if there was any body that God did not love he would actually cease to be God because love is not something that , that God does , you and I do it no matter how loving you are , or how loving you think you are , you are not love , you choose to love somebody and you love them , there are times when that love goes very thin sometimes , perhaps because of events that have happened , it can actually come to an end where that love dies , you withdraw your love God ca n't do that , God loves us as we 've said with an eternal love , a love that will go on throughout the endless ages of eternity |
| 22 | He values good manners far more than he values the evidence of wealth . ’ |
| 23 | More than she did the other army wives . |
| 24 | But there is another , very important matter social work can do something about , which , over time , will do more than anything to raise the profession 's standing . |
| 25 | That more than anything stopped the shares from sliding . |
| 26 | It 's the same as everything and everybody and because er they were satisfied with it , they wanted some more and they took the old lo lock off and put some more on what I 'd made , see what I mean . |
| 27 | I need some more , I must get some more if they want the children to have |
| 28 | He might sell a lot more if he had the hand units . |
| 29 | ‘ Obviously , I do n't want to say any more until we have the final verdict . ’ |
| 30 | He explained payments in eight monthly instalments may give the impression that tenants were paying more but it covered the full year . |