Example sentences of "powerful than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was ten to twenty times more powerful than a candle , and thus encouraged the furniture into the room away from the fire , which had often served as supplementary lighting . |
| 2 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |
| 3 | You are the only woman I know — apart from Lucy — who wears skirts and dresses and make-up and turns me on more powerful than a monsoon with all the steam and heat … |
| 4 | In a work of art this is a powerful coup because it compels us to think about why we know this woman must be black , and as an act of protest it is far richer and more powerful than an instruction in how to feel . |
| 5 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 6 | The most likely surmise is that the hardliners are now more powerful than the reformers , but are unable to press home their advantage . |
| 7 | Artegall keeps control and this allows victory over a savage force which appears much larger and more powerful than the knight . |
| 8 | The mind is much more powerful than the aroma of an essential oil . |
| 9 | But a proton machine in the same tunnel , with magnets a bit more powerful than the SSC 's , could produce 8TeV beams . |
| 10 | To minimise that advantage CERN is also concentrating on building magnets more complex and more powerful than the SSC 's . |
| 11 | Then , as her eyes swept over the crowd clustered round the stage , she did a double-take , spotting one figure much larger and more powerful than the rest . |
| 12 | It is unencumbered in any way and therefore females are generally used , being smaller and less powerful than the males . |
| 13 | He felt his strength powerfully , and a joy in flight far more real and powerful than the dreams and hopes had made of it in his cage at the Zoo . |
| 14 | Who could be more powerful than the Gods ? ’ |
| 15 | The notion that there is nothing more to the idea of parliamentary sovereignty than that Parliament is more powerful than the Crown has a strange ring to today 's ears . |
| 16 | * He blamed the Communist Tudeh Party for his overthrow ; the Communists were far more powerful than the Mullahs , he said . |
| 17 | And the tally of crown successes over its opponents far outnumbers its few failures ; Douglases , Crichtons , Livingstones , Erskines , Gordons , Hamiltons and many other members of aristocratic families who lost out to the crown over a huge range of disputes , from the heights of violent conflict to the crown 's ability to beat off rival claimants to lands , would have been astonished by the belief of later historians that they were more powerful than the monarchy . |
| 18 | Because the new government had an effective army it could raise much more revenue from taxes than the King had done , and so was more powerful than the monarchy had been . |
| 19 | The apparent paradox is that , on the evidence provided by such teams as Neath and Llanelli , the clubs individually are more powerful than the country collectively . |
| 20 | Indeed , the increased concentration of central government on local government spending helped to increase its political profile , locally as well as nationally , at just the time when reorganization had created authorities with major staffing and financial resources , authorities more powerful than the patchwork quilt of councils which they replaced . |
| 21 | The flavours of both cheeses are less powerful than the bouquets . |
| 22 | The British people have in the past found them rather more powerful than the corporations which are popularly supposed to finance the Conservative party . |
| 23 | George Buchanan also contends that it is the people who are the ultimate source of the laws : " the Law is more powerful than the King , and the People more powerful than the Law " for " the People is as it were the Parent of the Law , certainly the Author thereof . " |
| 24 | As an example of direct derivation we here prove a law relating IF and ALT that is apparently more powerful than the law unc we already have . |
| 25 | Losing oneself in the other when one party is more powerful than the other can only mean the one submitting to the other . |
| 26 | The reason it thinks your 486SX is a 386 is that the two processors do share many common features , it just that one is a lot more powerful than the other . |
| 27 | George Buchanan also contends that it is the people who are the ultimate source of the laws : " the Law is more powerful than the King , and the People more powerful than the Law " for " the People is as it were the Parent of the Law , certainly the Author thereof . " |
| 28 | Perhaps as one remembers this , one could pause to think that we have weapons 1000 times more powerful than the ones which caused this destruction . |
| 29 | A blend of clove , thyme , lavender and peppermint , for example , is far more powerful than the chemist might expect of the blend ( taking into account the combined chemical constituents of the oils ) . |
| 30 | The micro-revolution of the eighties gave the world not only cheap machines — which are now more powerful than the mainframes of the seventies — but tools like spreadsheets , 4GLs , Case ( computer-aided software engineering ) tools and data management languages . |