Example sentences of "[prep] more [noun] than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Cray 's music has always shown the influence of more forms than the urban twelve-bar . |
| 2 | I am known all too well that it 's big rough galaxy out there , full of more surprises than the human imagination can conceive of . |
| 3 | ‘ The mere suggestion of a silhouette of chimneys , hidden behind a sycamore tree in the next door garden , may prove of more value than the carefully-studied roof lines in the architect 's perspective , ’ he wrote in ‘ Castles . ’ |
| 4 | However , The Times warned that the deal took Citizens into a much larger market in Massachusetts , ‘ a state that has been the graveyard of more banks than the federal authorities would care to remember . ’ |
| 5 | It was low with an agreeable trace of huskiness and with a hint of more power than the frail body would suggest ; not an educated voice but one on which education had imposed a discipline which had n't quite obliterated the provincial , probably East Anglian , accent of childhood . |
| 6 | They walked on either side of me and talked to each other , jabbering utter nonsense as though it was all so important , and I , with more brains than the two of them put together and information of the most vital nature , could n't get a word out . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's all about doing it better and with more style than the next man . |
| 8 | If anything , he handled this crisis with more aplomb than the earlier one . |
| 9 | In the long term seven people in ten will be drinking water with more nitrate than the European limit in the Anglian region and half those in , Severn Trent . ’ |
| 10 | No Moslem could have greeted the sight of its medieval columns with more glee than the clapped-out crews of the TransaDeuche for , even though the place is a little less remote these days , it was still a pretty formidable achievement getting to it in a vehicle not really designed to leave the Left Bank . |
| 11 | For most of his career after discovering the similia principle , he was inundated with more patients than the average practitioner could have coped with . |
| 12 | To be envious , in Axelrod 's terminology , means to strive for more money than the other player , rather than for an absolutely large quantity of the banker 's money . |
| 13 | If you 're thinking of putting in central heating , the type of system you should install will depend on more factors than the hot water requirements . |
| 14 | The British Government had cut the overseas aid budget by more money than the two charities had ever raised in their entire histories — and neither the media nor the general public had produced a murmur of protest . |
| 15 | Even so , the obvious incorrect answer 15 was given by more pupils than the correct answer . |