Example sentences of "more [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It can not have pleased Kimon , the Spartans ' friend , any more than it pleased politicians of more obviously radical complexion . |
| 2 | He reached the milestone in just under three years — but his 109 matches were five more than it took Lewis Jones , of Leeds , to hit the same target in the 1950s . |
| 3 | As it is , the swing to Labour was a feeble 2.1 per cent , scarcely more than it achieved in 1987 , and well short of the 5.2 per cent to the Tories which brought Mrs Thatcher to power in 1979 . |
| 4 | What is worse still , they start from a wholly inadequate skill base which hinders more than it helps by carving up approaches which should be integrated into arbitrary professional divisions called ‘ occupational therapy ’ , ‘ physiotherapy ’ and so on . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , modern nomenclature loses more than it gains . |
| 6 | Director Malcolm Sutherland , who had a major success with his adaptation of The Wasp Factory is plainly drawn to the wayward or the warped , but this play promises more than it delivers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It does not mean greatly more than it says , as a good many philosophers have seemed to think , and as surveys of their theories indicate . |
| 9 | Secondly , however , we must also avoid the mistake of thinking that the conditional " If the switch was flipped , the wipers started " means more than it says : it is about the flipping and the starting . |
| 10 | So ESA is having to cough up rather more than it bargained for to insure the European communications satellite that , if all goes to plan , Ariane will place in orbit on its next launch in June . |
| 11 | But it can also be held to mean no more than it creates a presumption that , if there is a conflict between community and domestic law , any ambiguity in that domestic law will be resolved to give effect to our community obligations . |
| 12 | Literature does not copy language any more than it copies reality . |
| 13 | The criminal justice system , of course , now recognises this even more than it recognises our need for autonomy : monetary penalties are by far the most common form of penalty that it uses in its attempt to control crime . |
| 14 | The finance ministry expects a federal budget deficit this year of nearly DM70 billion , about 60% more than it forecast in November . |
| 15 | The booty did not teach the Pisans how to engage in trade , any more than it taught them how to govern . |
| 16 | Iago can take a stand with every appearance of confidence : Yet from that firm-sounding position he lapses into uncertainty — ‘ I speak not yet of proof ’ ( ironically true ! ) — but an uncertainty that suggests far more than it states , with its rash of words for perception and deception ( ‘ look ’ , ‘ observe ’ , ‘ wear your eye thus ’ , ‘ not … secure ’ , ‘ abused ’ , ‘ look ’ , ‘ know ’ , ‘ see … pranks ’ , ‘ show ’ , ‘ conscience ’ , ‘ keep't unknown ’ ) . |
| 17 | The West could certainly produce more than it does , but equally certainly not enough to deal with the huge population increases projected for the developing world in the coming century . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On principle , Ferdinand refuses , and the head maltster realizes that this threatens him more than it does the writer . |
| 22 | If this card is an instruction card it must be obeyed by the person asking the question , the instruction card is then placed at the bottom of the pack , instruction cards are ren randomly mixed with the question cards and can change directions of play , make you give to the player to the left one of your cards etcetera , if a player has more than it does n't say . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But government figures published this summer revealed that there were 93,720 teachers in this category , 5,720 more than it had thought . |
| 25 | Hachette says that Montana was a passive minority investor about which it knew no more than it had been told by Montana 's Swiss lawyer : that it represented investors from several Gulf countries . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But the final sale price was still pounds more than it had been in normal trading the month before . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | According to estimates by the UN Commission , the UK would have to spend DM3,500 million a year to meet the new targets , or DM2,900 million more than it had planned . |