Example sentences of "[adv] more [adj] than [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps more significant than evidence of this kind is the simple fact that Jesus , on a number of crucial occasions in the Gospels , acts like a king , and does so quite deliberately . |
| 2 | Sarah Cunningham-Burley finds Aberdeen grandfathers much more uncertain than grandmothers of what their role should be . |
| 3 | As in the case of genes , fecundity is much more important than longevity of particular copies . |
| 4 | Many people find summer tea parties with scones and strawberries served on the lawn very appealing and much more romantic than mugs of coffee and biscuits in the kitchen . |
| 5 | He was always more conscious than Picasso of the actual surface quality of his work , and moreover more consistently conscious of the need for respecting the demands of the picture plane . |
| 6 | But probably more important than works of social research or political theory in spreading belief in the need for some degree of state action , was both concern about the condition of the economy and the impact of the Boer War of 1899–1902 . |
| 7 | Far more dramatic than rumours of who had offered what in terms of cash was the wholehearted support which the Daily Mail and Lord Rothermere gave the Fascists as 1934 began . |
| 8 | But it is the family 's version which the texts privileges and recounts in full detail , for this view of events is entirely consistent with the cultural assumptions of an isolated rural people and , indeed , is regarded as more credible than wonders of modern technology , such as the cinema . |
| 9 | The first factor helps to explain why simulations of physical systems are often more successful than simulations of social , demographic or economic systems , for physical systems are generally easier to isolate , identify and characterize . |
| 10 | Richard Dawkins , the zoologist , points out that large size does not imply bigger creatures were intrinsically more successful than species of a small size . |
| 11 | They are ultimately more instructive than stories of nonagenarians who scale Everest or even ( enjoyable though they are ) of Lord Denning 's battles with the government from his seat in the House of Lords . |