Example sentences of "more [adj] than [art] rest of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although economically underdeveloped by modern standards , they were more advanced than the rest of the new kingdom ( except Vojvodina ) , and especially in comparison with mountainous Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina , and with southern Serbia , including Kosovo and Macedonia . |
| 2 | And then we searched out the petits coins , a place described as ‘ more asleep than the rest of the village ’ . |
| 3 | The tongue was impossibly extended , pointed and wet and more alive than the rest of the thing . |
| 4 | Then he said : ‘ I 'm more interested than the rest of you to know whether he killed himself . |
| 5 | ‘ What job is it you have here that makes you so much more likely than the rest of your family to attain a Mercedes ? ’ |
| 6 | What is the point of all that careful breeding with suitable people , all that specialised education and upbringing , if not to produce people who are somehow nobler and more self-sacrificing than the rest of us ? |
| 7 | These priests may have been more affluent than the rest of the population , but one has evidence of flesh-eating in the artisan class too . |
| 8 | Like , are they more sussed than the rest of us ? |
| 9 | Nationalized industries tend to be much more capital-intensive than the rest of the economy , and it is precisely the presence of these large capital costs that generates the economies of scale that make many of these industries natural monopolies . |
| 10 | Also it might be that those who suffer from SAD differ from most people only because they are more susceptible than the rest of the population to feeling ‘ under the weather ’ when they do not see daylight , particularly in the morning . |
| 11 | Why would they target you for this surveillance unless they thought you were more susceptible than the rest of us ? |
| 12 | He was n't more cowardly than the rest of his sex . |
| 13 | Although these children were potentially a lot more intelligent than the rest of society , they still feared something and this is what suppressed them for a longer period of time . |