Example sentences of "more [adj] [conj] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Stravinsky , if more detached and calculated a piece , equally engages the senses here in the incisiveness of Zimmermann 's playing , his thrust , his fullness of sound , the quiet restraint he shows in the concerto 's plaintive moments . |
| 2 | THE MOST widely-used test to detect chemicals that can cause cancer in humans is no more reliable than tossing a coin , says Dr David Salsburg , a statistician with a large American drug company . |
| 3 | Much more demanding than overseeing a terrace of houses and collecting rents . ’ |
| 4 | A positive approach to study of this nature makes it more interesting and provides a degree of excitement . |
| 5 | It had been much more exciting than seeing a weka for the first time . |
| 6 | Erm , to cut a long story short , if a attractive Fairfax erm , individual enterprise came up , we would be far more interested than taking a stake that was a , just an investment . |
| 7 | Shooting a film is more risky than publishing a paperback . |
| 8 | All those seeds and apples were V , virile , and X , extremely bitter to the taste — not to say inedible — because of all the insects in them , which , since , Ketone-Etone-Methyl-Tri-Di-Meta-post-Oxy-Chlorane had been banned , flourished alarmingly ; if there is one thing more off-putting than finding a maggot in your apple it is finding half a maggot in your apple . |
| 9 | A by-product of this is that corpus-based linguistics , for a long time ignored in favour of logic-based linguistics , is becoming more accepted and attracting a lot more attention . |
| 10 | There are few sights more thrilling than seeing a Harrier jump jet being put through its paces . |
| 11 | Oh I I think , think that they differed in as far as they were a tiny little bit more ambitious and wanted a sort of erm a a little bit better life , but everybody even in the terraced houses they were all very respectable people , very respectable people I mean er I |
| 12 | She knew it would be useless to suggest that running away to Bristol looked more suspicious than pretending a stomach upset and staying at home . |
| 13 | There is nothing more irritating than to start a job , and find halfway through that you do not have a vital piece of equipment . |
| 14 | Because the dishes were dried in hot air , it was much more hygienic than using a tea towel or leaving the dishes to drip dry . |
| 15 | ‘ That was more important than getting a gold disc . |
| 16 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 17 | Having a sense of humour is probably more important than having a fishing rod amongst ‘ The Naver Nuts ’ . |
| 18 | For a Hindu woman nothing is more important than possessing a husband and nothing is luckier than to have a loving and caring husband . |
| 19 | To lose your own ball in a line-out is more damaging than losing a strike against the head . |
| 20 | Having sampled many of the better known holiday spots around the Mediterranean , we decided this year to be more adventurous and pay a visit to a desert island . |
| 21 | I think you 've been a lot more conscientious and got a lot er , potentially a lot more out of it . |
| 22 | ‘ The Sierra , despite being more roomy and having a 2.3-litre motor , gets along nicely on a lot less . |
| 23 | has n't been , he 's been even more desperate than to get a goal , but he got one on twenty one . |
| 24 | The more enlightened and reforming a government the more obviously it must flout feelings of this kind ; and sometimes the price to be paid for flouting them was high . |
| 25 | Since positioning of a character on a video terminal screen is rather more difficult than punching a hole in a specified column of a card , and because today 's computer users are accustomed to ‘ free-format ’ input ( in which data elements are not defined by their position on an input record but are separated by commas or spaces ) , the input format demanded by SYMAP may seem inflexible and difficult . |
| 26 | Perhaps still smarting from his lowly position and lack of respect in Yenan 30 years before , he publicly condemned Deng as arrogant and dangerously ambitious : ‘ To discuss with Deng Xiaoping as equals is more difficult than to put a ladder against heaven . ’ |
| 27 | This works even when recipients are away from their desks providing their PC is left on — ‘ far more efficient than sticking a Post-It note on their screen , ’ Richard smiled . |
| 28 | One of the advantages of using an instantaneous gas water heater is that it is much more efficient than using a gas central heating boiler to heat the water in a storage cistern particularly in the summer . |
| 29 | ‘ I think there 's nothing more therapeutic than sharing a glass of champagne . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ — is about , what , seven times — eight times ! — more expensive than getting a coach from Gloucester Green to Victoria ? ’ |