Example sentences of "[noun] [be] more [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years later , and after an initial ‘ thrashing ’ by Birmingham for the British nomination , the bid is more substantial than a local headline , £2 million more , the Duke of Westminster and a dozen of Britain 's blue-chip companies and corporations each persuaded by Scott 's vision of a North-west renaissance to dip into their accounts for at least £100,000 . |
| 2 | Do you think a four-poster 's more erotic than a divan ? |
| 3 | From a pilot study comparing the antiviral effect of interferon , acyclovir and a combination of interferon and acyclovir , it was concluded that combination therapy appears to be a highly promising treatment for chronic hepatitis B. As more recent controlled studies have shown that acyclovir does not enhance the therapeutic effect of interferon alone , the results of the pilot study could also be interpreted as indicating that a second course of interferon after short term primer interferon therapy is more effective than a single course . |
| 4 | Erratic and staggered waking is more effective than a fixed waking schedule but both show only moderate effects and are not as effective as the bell and pad . |
| 5 | Arguably , though , the achievement of five O levels at a sitting was more demanding than a piecemeal collection of A levels . |
| 6 | This proved too ambitious ; the Twenty-Second Session favoured separate texts for civil and for criminal matters , and a subsequent Expert Group , meeting in New Delhi in 1982 , decided that a model bilateral agreement in each of these areas was more appropriate than a draft convention . |
| 7 | In the first place , there is a discrepancy in the experimental results — Reiss and Wagner ( 1972 ) found that a novel stimulus was more effective than a familiar one in disrupting the CR whereas Kremer ( 1972 ) found the opposite . |
| 8 | Surely , she reasoned , the future of a child was more important than a promise to a man who was now dead ? |
| 9 | If the money falls in law to be repaid , a direct order for its repayment is more appropriate than a declaration that it should repay it or an order setting aside a refusal to be repaid . |
| 10 | Business was more rewarding than a relationship . |
| 11 | Few things are more poignant than a holiday romance , and we 're very happy to say that over the years we 've brought more than a few couples together who are now living happily every after . |
| 12 | Pizza dough is more oily than a standard bread dough . |
| 13 | This is obviously much less than the comparable figure of half a billion , which is the factor by which the histone H4 gene after natural selection is more accurate than a typical secretary ; but it is still a very impressive figure . |
| 14 | Over the crossing , a cupola raised on a drum is more usual than a tower , particularly in Lombardy and Tuscany . |
| 15 | When they had gone , Cramer used the phone in the garage to put through a call to Sir Harry Marriott at his home and give him the news — the phone was more secure than a police radio band . |
| 16 | In practice , says the review , ‘ such securities are more liquid than a fixed-period bank deposit with a maturity of less than three months , although the latter falls within the definition of cash equivalents ’ . |
| 17 | Planning is more important than a plan |
| 18 | Lombroso , whose somewhat bizarre theories of crime and criminals we looked at in Chapter Two , claimed that ‘ a delinquent woman is more unnatural than a delinquent man ’ . |
| 19 | It might even be possible to create a ‘ place in the sun ’ , where car parking has been placed underground because a place in the sun for townsfolk is more important than a place in the sun for cars ( e ) . |
| 20 | Man is more individuated than a fly , but not by a great margin . |
| 21 | Coming from a country where the use of the appropriate word is more important than a gesture in daily life , both choreographers have resolved that words must be replaced by gestures within the choreographic design . |
| 22 | One human life was more important than a whole herd of pigs . |
| 23 | In contemporary England written language takes precedence , for instance , in a legal context — a written contract being more binding than a spoken agreement — while in Scotland verbal contracts are binding in some cases . |
| 24 | Some issues are more complex than a television-style presentation allows . |
| 25 | Both mothers and fathers of children admitted into care were more likely than a comparison group to have a psychiatric disorder . |
| 26 | Aperture for aperture , a refractor is more efficient than a reflector , and it is also easier to maintain . |
| 27 | As we saw earlier , a central godhead whose manifold characteristics can be all things to all men is more powerful than a more parochial and less versatile spirit . |
| 28 | My aim is only to point out that the situation is more complex than a simple division between ‘ Western monotheism ’ and ‘ Eastern polytheism ’ . |
| 29 | Anyway , living in a city was more expensive than a rural existence would be , he reasoned , thus rationalising his longing to return home . |
| 30 | When standing for any length of time , remember that a wide base is more stable than a small one . |