Example sentences of "[adv] more [noun sg] than the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Setting Hamlet in the cavernous St George 's Hall proved the Everyman Theatre had perhaps more resolve than the diffident Hamlet and they , and last night 's audience , were rewarded with a memorable occasion , if not the greatest ever Hamlet on stage .
2 At noon , in a narrowing part of the glen , a stretch which offered a little more greenery than the earlier reaches , the Highland guides , knowing of the climb ahead , halted to feed , water and rest the horses .
3 That crust of yellow butter so important to the true English potted meats and pastes as opposed to the Franglais and the factory-produced versions , does perhaps need a little more explanation than the late Major Connolly , who refers to it throughout his little work as " melted butter " , thought necessary to clarify .
4 Mr Marchant argues that to make sure sponsorship is transparent to viewers , as the new Broadcasting Bill will insist , sponsors should be given far more prominence than the present restrictions to discreet and static front and end credits on programmes .
5 The virgins perform the most curious rites requiring far more dexterity than the earlier phallic Maypole rituals from which it seems to be derived .
6 Based around the proven XT-compatible V20 processor , the low-profile CompuAdd 810 runs at up to 10 MHz ( the speed of many AT units ) , offering far more power than the original IBM PC/XT .
7 The tax system extensively encouraged all peasant owners to settle down and get rich because the tax rate remained fixed on grain output from each household but the adjustment of the tax rate was more advantageous to the rich peasant than the poor , especially in view of the fact that the rich peasant still owned proportionately more land than the poor peasant .
8 From the government 's point of view , the settlement complemented the ‘ Social Contract ’ between unions and state ; it accorded the unions considerably more leeway than the joint management-union training scheme proposed in 1972 by the Commission on Industrial Relations , with the stated purpose of ‘ improving industrial relations ’ through corporatism in the workplace , while setting limits on the scope and nature of the expansion .
9 The party was thought to wield considerable influence through local mosques , and was reported to have distributed water free of charge in poor urban areas and to have provided considerably more assistance than the local authorities to the victims of a double earthquake in the coastal resort of Tipaza in October ( see also below ) .
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