Example sentences of "[prep] more [noun sg] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the financial health of the company seemed to be of more importance than the community 's concern over the health of its children . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ OK , ’ says I with more composure than a Confucian in a comfort station . |
| 5 | Moreover , there is no one in all Chung Kuo with more experience than the Marshal . |
| 6 | ‘ OK , ’ said I with more determination than a sybarite in a sacristy . |
| 7 | Jenny laughed with more enthusiasm than the witticism merited . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Scientists discovered the atom vibrates with more regularity than the earth turns on its axis . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Do it now , ’ said I , with more authority than a gymnosophist in a lesbian love-dungeon . |
| 12 | I walked into the bar with more finagle than a ferret in a tinker 's trouser . |
| 13 | ‘ Speak on , ’ said I with more encouragement than a Brahman temple dancer at a Brown Shirt 's bump supper . |