Example sentences of "[prep] more [noun] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 2 | Thus the financial health of the company seemed to be of more importance than the community 's concern over the health of its children . |
| 3 | Why does a barrow boy selling bunched radishes and salad greens in the market at Chinon know by instinct so to arrange his produce that he has created a little spectacle as fresh and gay as a Dufy painting , and you are at once convinced that unless you taste some of his radishes you will be missing an experience which seems of more urgency than a visit to the Chateau of Chinon ? |
| 4 | Pointed comments are made about racial discrimination within the army , the insensitivity of television journalists , and uninformed liberal political views : indeed , the anti-war movement at home comes under more criticism than the NVA regulars entrenched at the top of the hill . |
| 5 | ‘ OK , ’ says I with more composure than a Confucian in a comfort station . |
| 6 | Moreover , there is no one in all Chung Kuo with more experience than the Marshal . |
| 7 | ‘ OK , ’ said I with more determination than a sybarite in a sacristy . |
| 8 | Jenny laughed with more enthusiasm than the witticism merited . |
| 9 | Beautiful scenery , fresh air and good food , a chance to live the simple life , staying in accommodation with more character than a motel and more comfort than a tent . |
| 10 | Scientists discovered the atom vibrates with more regularity than the earth turns on its axis . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't mean to , ’ said I , slipping into the first-person with more delicacy than a dog log in a dowager 's duffle bag . |
| 12 | ‘ Do it now , ’ said I , with more authority than a gymnosophist in a lesbian love-dungeon . |
| 13 | Forcing his useless legs to work he made his way to the bridge , awkwardly at first , hobbling , as if in some grotesque mimicry of his wife , then with more confidence as the blood began to flow , his muscles come alive again . |
| 14 | I walked into the bar with more finagle than a ferret in a tinker 's trouser . |
| 15 | ‘ Speak on , ’ said I with more encouragement than a Brahman temple dancer at a Brown Shirt 's bump supper . |
| 16 | Sex is important in marriage for more reasons than the begetting of children . |
| 17 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 18 | He has hitched his wagon to more stars than a Romany king yet he 'd have put down lifelong roots at first love Manchester City , and not just because a ground called Maine Road was bound to be his spiritual home . |
| 19 | But other languages like Telegu , Bengali , Marathi , Tamil , Urdu , Gujarati , Kannada and Malayalam can hardly be ignored ; each is probably spoken by more people than the population of 145 of the member-states of the United Nations . |