Example sentences of "[adj] than a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah , no , I mean cos violence and drugs is more harmful than a load of girls , you know , doing stupid things on s street corner . |
| 2 | It just shows that there 's more to demo-making than a bunch of programmers having fun . |
| 3 | The warranties on a sale of a business are usually more limited than a sale of shares because taxation and other undisclosed liabilities remain with the offeree and do not pass with the business ( unless otherwise agreed ) . |
| 4 | Moreover , it is the doctor-counsellor as much as anyone else who needs to ask these questions , for often spending time considering these aspects of ill-health might be more helpful than a prescription for drugs . |
| 5 | Tempo 30 zones need not therefore consist of anything more complex than a set of signs , an arrangement which pays lip-service to safety improvement yet costs little money . |
| 6 | How much more abominable than a tax on widows ? |
| 7 | The Secretary of State for Wales , for instance , has said : ’ How much more abominable than a tax on widows ? |
| 8 | I find that his vitality , his sort of erm sense of rightness is incredibly interesting and much more rewarding than a lot of things that are going on on the Continent . |
| 9 | and I was better qualified than a lot of guys in my class and yet they left college and got a job right away ! |
| 10 | For all the earthy language and talk of struggles to come , it sounded more like community singing in a bomb-shelter than a call to arms . |
| 11 | This is a world where document management and revision tracking are probably more important than the finer points of typography , the ability to pull information out of the corporate data base more vital than a range of typefaces and sizes . |
| 12 | However , as transcripts of spontaneous speech like the one above illustrate , the listener who is attempting to understand spoken language is often being confronted with something other than a string of sentences . |
| 13 | What many need is to be told that they can achieve something more constructive than a profit from others ' financial predicament . |