Example sentences of "more expensive [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a little more expensive than a normal invitation but it is less likely that it will get lost . |
| 2 | A nicely bound A4 format logbook is bound to be more expensive than a tatty exercise book , but as well as being more effective it will also look much more impressive on the chart table or in the bookcase ! |
| 3 | Anyway , living in a city was more expensive than a rural existence would be , he reasoned , thus rationalising his longing to return home . |
| 4 | It is generally time consuming involving more sources and therefore more expensive than a reactive search . |
| 5 | The Builder had an editorial on 19th February which contained extracts from a letter from Scott reasserting that his design was better lit , as convenient and no more expensive than a classical design , and it commented that Scott 's opponents did not understand that he was not intending to reproduce old forms rigidly and he was only willing to introduce ‘ the refinements and inventions of our own day ’ . |
| 6 | Clearly , however , the fame of the artist overrides all these statements : a pen and ink Rembrandt is vastly more expensive than an eighteenth-century watercolour . |
| 7 | Sadly , the Macintosh is still slightly more expensive than an equivalent PC system — especially when it has to be made PC compatible by adding AppleTalk or extras like the PC disk drive . |