Example sentences of "more [adj] than [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 But , the lessons are more subtle than the direct borrowing of the approach and importing it into different service sectors .
6 The Reverend is no more dated than the stereotypical class snob Colonel Mustard or the proverbial scarlet woman , Miss Scarlet .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Few things will the English youth find in after-life more profitable than the right use of the aforesaid letter .
10 More palatable to cosmologists would be the possibility that the gas in groups and clusters has become more concentrated than the dark matter .
11 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 .
12 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 ’ .
13 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 .
14 I can think of nothing more destructive than the Labour party 's proposals .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 In younger children , at all events , frightening circumstances are likely to be a lot more harmful than the sexual content .
21 Not very much is known about Lloyds so it 's somewhat more mystical than an ordinary club .
22 Arguably , though , the achievement of five O levels at a sitting was more demanding than a piecemeal collection of A levels .
23 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 .
24 Even as you were ordering the march of your troops you made some of those sudden discoveries which throw more light than a painstaking analysis .
25 It will give us that much longer to get to know one another and it will be much more interesting than a 12-hour flight . ’
26 SOMETIMES you find the footnotes in a history book rather more interesting than the heavy stuff upstairs .
27 She could feel the almost-accidental brush of his hand against her hair and felt herself flood with a warmth deeper and more insistent than the scalding heat of the water in which they were immersed .
28 In many ways this moment was infinitely more exciting than the actual race itself because these qualifying laps asked so much from car and driver .
29 For , to the romantic , the bird of paradise is much more exciting than the humble house sparrow .
30 This makes it less relevant than it might be here , partly because the undergraduate curriculum is relatively more specialized than the secondary school one , and partly because distinctions or dimensions which are important in higher education — for example , between the pure and the applied — are less so in the schools .
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