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 | After much fretting and threats of legal action , the RFU had little choice but to back down — and endorse a strip that is if anything , more garish than the last effort . |
| 4 | I had always suspected him of being rather more solid than the average person and this collision provided complete confirmation . |
| 5 | True , they have feeble strength and toughness , but with three wounds they are more resilient than the same frontage of Goblins or Orcs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But , the lessons are more subtle than the direct borrowing of the approach and importing it into different service sectors . |
| 8 | The Reverend is no more dated than the stereotypical class snob Colonel Mustard or the proverbial scarlet woman , Miss Scarlet . |
| 9 | It was more emphatic than the 5-1 win on Thursday because little more than two hours after the start England had already achieved a 4-0 winning lead . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Few things will the English youth find in after-life more profitable than the right use of the aforesaid letter . |
| 13 | More palatable to cosmologists would be the possibility that the gas in groups and clusters has become more concentrated than the dark matter . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I can think of nothing more destructive than the Labour party 's proposals . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In younger children , at all events , frightening circumstances are likely to be a lot more harmful than the sexual content . |
| 24 | Not very much is known about Lloyds so it 's somewhat more mystical than an ordinary club . |
| 25 | Arguably , though , the achievement of five O levels at a sitting was more demanding than a piecemeal collection of A levels . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | SOMETIMES you find the footnotes in a history book rather more interesting than the heavy stuff upstairs . |
| 30 | The four speed box would be more economical than the three speed and is a relatively easy conversion . |