Example sentences of "[be] more [adj] [subord] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then any clothes would have been more suitable than the skimpy loincloth that he sports on stage every night in the long-running London musical Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . |
| 2 | A church setting would undoubtedly have been more atmospheric than the shocking pink of the BBC Concert Hall , but then listeners to the broadcast will only need to worry about aural aesthetics . |
| 3 | I share the opinion of many that a similar figure would have been more appropriate than the controversial statue of Air Marshal Harris outside St Clement Danes . |
| 4 | We spend about £567 million on regional selective assistance in the public expenditure survey round , and I think that most people now accept that it has been more effective than the automatic grants made under the regional development grants system . |
| 5 | Using a theoretical model originally suggested by Dixit ( 1987 ) , the UK quota has been shown to have been more restrictive than a tariff-equivalent quota , while the EC minimum import price was less restrictive than an optimal tariff . |
| 6 | Alternatively , the heating of the smoke plume due to its absorption of solar energy may have been more important than the reduced surface heating such that a net warming of the lower atmosphere produced a slight enhancement of the Asian summer monsoon overall ( Browning et al. , 1991 ) or over specific areas such as the Tibetan plateau ( Bakan et al. , 1991 ) . |
| 7 | Lilly had not been more beautiful than the other women who sought him , just more clever . |
| 8 | But , the lessons are more subtle than the direct borrowing of the approach and importing it into different service sectors . |
| 9 | Certain specifications allow the use of High , Expanded , or Extended memory , but MS-DOS 5 leaves you with up to 621K of the original 640K to use and programs that require more than this are more complex than a new PC owner should initially be concerned with . |
| 10 | Some issues are more complex than a television-style presentation allows . |
| 11 | ‘ Poor people are more honest than the rich , ’ asserts Bola Ajibola , Attorney General and Minister of Justice . |
| 12 | ‘ All the children in the orphanages are very disadvantaged but these two are more disadvantaged than the other inmates , ’ said Mr Nath . |
| 13 | With no mapped out career path , his options are more limited than the young doctor or dentist . |
| 14 | She argued that this was consistent with the view that the auditory pathways from each ear to the contralateral cerebral cortex are more effective than the ipsilateral pathways from each ear to the same side of the brain . |
| 15 | They are more effective when the national economy is expanding fast and when national rates of unemployment are low . |
| 16 | Research in Germany on the cold hardiness of Primula acaulis shows that the red-flowered cultivars are more frost-sensitive than the white or blue equivalents . |
| 17 | Some of these horror weapons are more insidious than the nuclear ones . ’ |
| 18 | Coloured acetate sheets in yellow , red , blue or green are obtainable , but are more expensive than the ordinary transparent sheet . |
| 19 | The exact division of responsibilities between central and local authorities varies from country to country , though in most respects England and Wales are more similar than the other countries . |
| 20 | are more powerful than the weak tests described at the beginning of this section . |
| 21 | Among these instincts the egoistic , or self-regarding , are more powerful than the social , or other-regarding . |
| 22 | In practice , says the review , ‘ such securities are more liquid than a fixed-period bank deposit with a maturity of less than three months , although the latter falls within the definition of cash equivalents ’ . |
| 23 | If we believe the nature of our industry is likely to change , then it behoves us to experiment , and set up different ways of running things to see whether such approaches are more successful than the traditional ways of doing business . |
| 24 | There is now substantial clinical ( Bocca , Calearo , Cassinari and Migliavacca , 1955 ; Oxbury and Oxbury , 1969 ; Celesia , 1976 ) and experimental ( Rosenzweig , 1951 ; Satz , Levy and Tyson , 1970 ; Majkowski , Bochenek , Bochenek , Knapic-Fijalkowska and Kopec , 1971 ; Andreassi , De Simone , Friend and Grota , 1975 ; Mononen and Seitz , 1977 ) evidence to support the view that the crossed pathways are more important than the uncrossed pathways in transmitting auditory information . |
| 25 | Others are aimed mainly at a middle-aged market , where comfort and quality are more important than the current fashion . |
| 26 | In all countries the poor are more national than the rich , but the English working class are outstanding in their abhorrence of foreign habits … . |
| 27 | ‘ Do not judge these industrial towns by their faces ; they are the most alive places in England ; they are more interesting than the little dead country towns which we so like to look at : think of Manchester , Birmingham with their concerts , theatres , parks and art galleries … |
| 28 | Few things in the history of the eighteenth century , indeed , are more significant than the unquestioning support which the Russian monarchy continued to receive from its subjects in spite of the wild vicissitudes of intrigue and revolution through which it passed . |
| 29 | Scientists have known for some time that fusion reactions between nuclei of deuterium and tritium are more likely if the nuclear spins line up in the same direction . |
| 30 | It seems also fair to say , that schemes which focus on penetration are more satisfactory than the Canadian arrangement . |