Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] than [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The temples were much more than centres of worship . |
| 2 | Ratings of radio news were less predictable than ratings of television but they too were influenced by recent political interest , motivations for following the campaign , and degree of party preference . |
| 3 | For other members of the department , some of whom were less aware than Joanne of what they were trying to achieve via the new approach , this was even more the case . |
| 4 | On the tides of Dublin or London they were hardly more than specks of froth but together they were the aristocratic Morans of Great Meadow , a completed world , Moran 's daughters . |
| 5 | The language of peace implied groups , and memories of the peace embodied in marriages which created kinship for successive generations were more enduring than memories of quarrels . |
| 6 | Fathers of children with leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma were more likely than fathers of control children to have been employed by the nuclear industry , but the excess was not significant . |
| 7 | Representative Lee H. Hamilton of Indiana , who co-chaired the congressional joint investigation of the Iran-contra affair , declared that those hearings , because they affected current US foreign policy , were more important than questions of individual criminal liability . |
| 8 | And that too seems related to the solidarities of kinship and to the training in respect which comes with belonging to a lineage : in a sense , both cadres and ordinary Libyans seemed to share the assumption that loyalties of descent and domesticity were more important than differences of opinion . |
| 9 | The mythic animals are an even stronger reminder that the fresco artists were depicting another world than the everyday one ; it is a symbolic world where general concepts such as fecundity were more important than accuracy of detail . |
| 10 | Word of his prowess with the chanthu had spread , Alexei knew , and quarrels were seldom more than exchanges of acid words as a result , because were he to be challenged the choice of weapons would be his . |
| 11 | East of the Rhine in the kingdom of Louis the German , for instance , there were no mints , and there is much less evidence for markets and traders , while in the Middle Kingdom ( Lotharingia ) , the volume of coinage in circulation was much smaller than west of the Meuse . |
| 12 | We had been advised that its latest English translation by Eivor Martinus was more robust than versions of it generally current here — an unnecessary warning as things turned out . |
| 13 | Bowles , however , concluded slightly differently from his review of American data : social class background was more important than years of schooling in deciding a person 's earnings . |
| 14 | Lysis of M1-vac-infected T2/TAP1+2 cells was again less than lysis of M1-vac-infected T1 cells . |