Example sentences of "more [adj] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Much nicer and far more refreshing than the bland oiliness of avocado and prawns , a combination which still baffles me . |
2 | Well i it were like a proper , er i in fact , they were more professional than a proper salon . |
3 | I had always suspected him of being rather more solid than the average person and this collision provided complete confirmation . |
4 | But it has never been shown that induction is logically more respectable than a formalized argument from analogy , indeed that induction from some particulars leading to deduction of others is anything else but a roundabout argument from analogy . |
5 | On the contrary , it was more cohesive because the mixed battalion system overcame the divisive effects of the strong corporatist sense developed by units composed only of one kind of soldier . |
6 | But , the lessons are more subtle than the direct borrowing of the approach and importing it into different service sectors . |
7 | The Reverend is no more dated than the stereotypical class snob Colonel Mustard or the proverbial scarlet woman , Miss Scarlet . |
8 | WHEN a teenager talks about popping in to the travel agents , parents should realise they may be intending to buy something more mind-bending than a cheap break . |
9 | Nor is it sensible to argue , as the Treasury has , that a European system of central banks in charge of a single currency might prove more inflationary than a fixed exchange rate system where each monetary authority competed to provide a stable benchmark of value . |
10 | As ale and songs flowed and inhibitions retreated , Farmer Blagrave 's boasting increased , the price he received for his corn became more exaggerated and an Appreciative audience egged him on . |
11 | Few things will the English youth find in after-life more profitable than the right use of the aforesaid letter . |
12 | More palatable to cosmologists would be the possibility that the gas in groups and clusters has become more concentrated than the dark matter . |
13 | Here the view is slightly more extensive but the broad top hides all valley details . |
14 | The problem is more acute if the overall demand for money is inelastic and is subject to fluctuations . |
15 | He was Raven Maize , a mysterious man with ‘ Together Forever ’ , a club hit in '89 , and far more soulful than the pristine work he offers at the moment : ‘ In those days I could record for nothing . |
16 | In practice , says the review , ‘ such securities are more liquid than a fixed-period bank deposit with a maturity of less than three months , although the latter falls within the definition of cash equivalents ’ . |
17 | This is made even more possible because the noisy environment impairs communication between people . |
18 | His virginity , his half-shameful fear of her close , warm-smelling , overwhelming femaleness , his social insecurity , born in that small , terraced house near the river at Ely , where he had lived with his widowed mother , nurtured by the desperate contrivings , the small deceptions of respectable poverty , the deprivation that was so much more humiliating than the real poverty of the inner cities . |
19 | I can think of nothing more destructive than the Labour party 's proposals . |
20 | Clearly then the arousal condition has not impaired all forms of memory for the story , the arousing scenario itself appears to be more memorable than the non-arousing version . |
21 | There are still a few in New Zealand but numbers there are now very low , and the Belted variety is more popular than the standard black . |
22 | Trimmed down from a much nastier pilot to the duelling clowns schtick , Minder became even more popular than the true grit series like Out and Fox it originally sought to follow . |
23 | The Dover Harbour Board argued in the early 1980s that ferries would be both cheaper and more reliable than a fixed link , a stance later adopted by the Flexilink consortium of ferry companies in its attempts to convince Parliament that the Channel Tunnel would be a financial disaster . |
24 | These substances , that may in some people be of relatively minor cross-addictive potential , can always be tackled later when the head is more clear and the primary disease is in more secure recovery . |
25 | Some such as financial resources are easily specifiable , others such as not contravening the mores of the organisation are more elusive but a key aspect of these skills is sensitivity to limitations and obstacles as well as positive assets ( Singleton , 1981 ) . |
26 | The power of the conscience can be built up from very early childhood by nothing more harmful than the temporary withholding of manifestations of love . |
27 | In younger children , at all events , frightening circumstances are likely to be a lot more harmful than the sexual content . |
28 | Not very much is known about Lloyds so it 's somewhat more mystical than an ordinary club . |
29 | Arguably , though , the achievement of five O levels at a sitting was more demanding than a piecemeal collection of A levels . |
30 | The hon. Gentleman was far more brave than the hon. Member for Torridge and Devon , West ( Miss Nicholson ) who has adopted the role of reading out central office briefs in the House to apologise for the Conservative party . |