Example sentences of "[prep] more [adj] [noun] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advent of Channel 4 in 1982 provided a space for more minority-orientated programmes than previously : Caribbean accents and occasional use of Creole have been regular features of situation comedies such as No Problem in the early 1980s and Desmonds in the late 1980s to early 1990s . |
| 2 | North Tyneside MBC opposed both these developments pointing out that the Tyne Tunnel proposal in particular was for more square feet than currently existed in the whole of central North Shields . |
| 3 | Slimmer and with more elongated face than both Short-eared and Tawny Owls ; further distinguished from Tawny ( p. 183 ) by longer wings and orange-yellow eyes , and from Short-eared by lack of dark patch on upper wing . |
| 4 | More patients are being treated in more specialities and with more up-to-date methods than ever before — a reflection of the hard work and high levels of professionalism of the staff who serve the people of Darlington and Teesdale . ’ |
| 5 | More patients are being treated in more specialities and with more up-to-date methods than ever before a reflection of the hard work and high levels of professionalism of the staff who serve the people of Darlington and Teesdale . ’ |
| 6 | The health and beauty business is flourishing with more sophisticated products than ever before . |
| 7 | They are rare because , since they are so highly viscous , rhyolite magmas are involved in more explosive eruptions than either basalts or andesites , and therefore are usually erupted as pyroclastic rocks rather than lavas . |
| 8 | Since material was couched in more moderate tones than hitherto , it was difficult to disprove claims that the speaker was intending to engage in reasoned debate . |
| 9 | Between 1909 and 1914 , partly as a result of the Act , partly in continuation of a preceding trend , loan sanction was given for significantly more houses to more local authorities than before . |