Example sentences of "[verb] more [noun sg] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many countries , regular servings of beer , wine and spirits contain roughly the same amount of alcohol — but many people still believe that a measure of spirits contains more alcohol than a glass of beer . |
| 2 | One thus has The intensity is related to this , but the probability distribution function contains more information than the intensity . |
| 3 | Every day contains more weather than a week in Scotland , and weeks in Scotland can drag on for centuries , believe me ! |
| 4 | Sanitation causes more controversy than the problem of water supply , possibly because it affects people in cities . |
| 5 | Something in my tone must have carried more weight than the words themselves . |
| 6 | There is no difference between government coverage and party coverage in this respect except that government has more initiative in determining the news , which means that it has more opportunity than the opposition to ensure that its coverage is favourable . |
| 7 | If the reader has more knowledge than the writer has supposed , then he will tend to disregard the discourse that has been plotted in the act of writing and simply take from the text whatever best suits his purpose . |
| 8 | That dream world has more solidity than a house uninhabited . |
| 9 | The ITF has more power than the ATP but the ITF needs the ATP . ’ |
| 10 | The merger will , therefore , Eyre explained , produce a wider portfolio of environmental services for the customers , and provide the potential for developing more business than the teams would have achieved separately . |
| 11 | It is , however , open to the criticism that it helps to preserve the anachronistic situation in which proprietary interests receive more protection than the interest in physical security . |
| 12 | Er it might very well be that the project manager may think , well my God , am I gon na do more work than the engineers that are working with you . |
| 13 | It is also time to worry , for such a strong consensus generally has an over-reaction on its coat-tails , one that could do more damage than the action to which it is a response . |
| 14 | A properly signed and endorsed witness statement will carry more weight than a transcript should it be necessary to admit it under the Civil Evidence Act in the event of the witness being unable to give evidence at trial . |
| 15 | President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani 's moderation in foreign policy seems to have carried the day in Iran ; hardliners are vociferous in parliament and elsewhere ( the Islamic Republic allows more debate than the shah ever countenanced ) , but they are out of power . |
| 16 | Look out for the splatter ( a knuckle-cracking heavy who uses more force than a bouncer ) , pay a quick visit to heaven and hell , and as for Santa 's in-store ‘ grotty ’ … it 's tacky , vulgar , and full of overpriced garbage they could n't sell during the year ! |
| 17 | An Olympic walker uses more energy than a jogger moving at the same speed , because he is walking at a speed where his muscles would use less energy if they were operating a spring than if moving a pendulum . |
| 18 | He wanted you to sell more milk than the cows gave ! |
| 19 | Any one of these teams could inflict more damage than a wing of Luftwaffe bombers in the Second World War . |
| 20 | to inspire more action than a sigh — |
| 21 | Before the 1980s its lowest ebb was probably during the last years of Stalin 's life when his private office and the secret police seem to have had more influence than the party . |
| 22 | The tail showed more application than the top of the order , and when Lamb was run out for 113 Jarvis and Dilley batted well to put on 53 for the last wicket . |
| 23 | The Pinot Bianco grape usually shows more character than the Pinot Grigio . |
| 24 | Jason says : ‘ Gary 's got more money than the rest of us because he gets publishing royalties for the songs he 's written , but the rest of us just get a modest wage . ’ |
| 25 | erm I suppose that would mean if they felt they were taking up so much of their time that they could n't do what they considered to be their job properly , and if they felt that I think the parents were persisting and insisting that their own children got more attention than the school could really afford to give them if they were going to be fair to everyone . |
| 26 | Additionally , because the bridle will be wrapped in with the kite , and handled frequently , it has to withstand more abuse than the kitelines . |
| 27 | A ‘ cost per page ’ figure is a rough guide only as a full page of graphics will use more ink than a letter . |
| 28 | He was wearing more lace than the Lady Francesca ! |
| 29 | They find that chloroform requires more irradiation than the others , but all are decomposed effectively . |
| 30 | Werewolf and I were numbers three and four in the queue and the Sergeant had to tap his watch a couple of times as Werewolf seemed to be requiring more help than the rest of us from Private Boyd in getting his belt on . |