Example sentences of "more [adj] than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The critics ' favourite accusation that Neverland looks like a theme park is fair , though hardly a criticism — most children and adults enjoy Disneyland , and the movie is no more garish than The Wizard of Oz , a great children 's film which has been rendered critically respectable by age . |
| 2 | Senior did once turn the ball into the net but David Elleray was more alert than the referee of England 's 1986 World Cup tie against Argentina and had noticed the hand of a mere mortal . |
| 3 | More striking than the provision of popular entertainment for profit was the remarkable degree to which the landed interest , the liberal professions , and even sections of the business community itself excluded commercial forces from sport . |
| 4 | It may be more hesitant than the House of Representatives about extending the death penalty , for instance for drug-dealing . |
| 5 | Before leaving the city for ever , I came across a philosopher , Jean-Jacques Rousseau , even more noted than the family of my accursed Master . |
| 6 | We have already mentioned two factors that make the entire structure more progressive than an examination of income tax alone would suggest . |
| 7 | Although economically underdeveloped by modern standards , they were more advanced than the rest of the new kingdom ( except Vojvodina ) , and especially in comparison with mountainous Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina , and with southern Serbia , including Kosovo and Macedonia . |
| 8 | A good example of this imbalance can be seen in psycholinguistics , where the study of language comprehension , being more experimental , is markedly more advanced than the study of language production , in which the investigator has less control over what happens . |
| 9 | RON ATKINSON had cause to offer belated seasonal goodwill to his fellow men last night as Aston Villa re-asserted their Championship challenge with a victory more emphatic than the margin of a Dean Saunders penalty suggests . |
| 10 | Among the Nez Perce and Crow people , pieces of horn were glued together and bound with sinew to create a bow ‘ stronger , tougher , more elastic , and more durable than a bow of any other materials ’ . |
| 11 | In this sense it has a similar role to that of the Office of Fair Trading in relation to UK competition rules such as the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 , the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 , although in a number of respects and in particular in so far as the Commission has the power to take binding decisions , its powers are more extensive than the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 12 | And even then it took a few more strangled moments before she could force her numbed brain to function with anything more coherent than a scream of anguish . |
| 13 | And then we searched out the petits coins , a place described as ‘ more asleep than the rest of the village ’ . |
| 14 | The old zeks say that if a man has a nightmare then he should not be disturbed because the awakened life of the camps is more awful than the pain of any dream . |
| 15 | Therefore merely the thought of exchanging gifts with the people she holds in mutual contempt was more awful than the prospect of being without her sons on Christmas Day . |
| 16 | The rules of the game are rather more specific than the culture of an organisation . |
| 17 | Not that she was admitting to anything more definite than a quiver of tingling excitement every time he came near her , of course . |
| 18 | The tongue was impossibly extended , pointed and wet and more alive than the rest of the thing . |
| 19 | I mistrust a literature that finds suicide more significant than death , and a man 's inability to communicate more sorry than the frenzy of his need to . |
| 20 | The German conjunctions used to signal this structure ( Einerseits ‘ on the one hand ’ , aber … andererseits ‘ but on the other hand ’ ) are more transparent than the mixture of causal Because and adversative But used in the English text . |
| 21 | The love-sick dog went completely off his food , finding his loveable lump more appetising than a bowl of doggy chunks in gravy and soon he was reduced to skin and bone , a mere shadow of the beast his family had grown to know and love . |
| 22 | Since British research in the 1 980s has consistently found that the use of cannabis , amphetamines , psychedelics and inhalants is much more prevalent than the use of opioids ( see Chapter 8 ) , the present findings imply that users of the former drugs are far less likely than opioid users to develop ‘ officially recognised ’ problems ( with the exception of legal problems , for example being prosecuted for possessing drugs ) . |
| 23 | Ah , no , I mean cos violence and drugs is more harmful than a load of girls , you know , doing stupid things on s street corner . |
| 24 | Recent history has , for example , a mass character more marked than the history of earlier times . |
| 25 | The fronting of objects and complements is much more marked than the fronting of adjuncts in English because objects and complements are fairly restricted in position . |
| 26 | Perhaps even more interesting than the status of race as a demarcator of differentiation , is the absence of division around religion , and in particular around the ethnic-religious combination of Irish Catholicism . |
| 27 | For Hilton openness to the reality of the dark shadows of the inner world carries a promise of life more exciting than the glare of everyday physical reality " so shynende and so confortable to hem are blynde in knowynge of gostly " ( 25.92r. – 238 ) . |
| 28 | Then he said : ‘ I 'm more interested than the rest of you to know whether he killed himself . |
| 29 | Hence his argument that ‘ the knowledge of history is no more historical than the knowledge of sugar is sweet ’ . |
| 30 | As a backbencher , his mind changed : ‘ Do you not think that the tone of England is more liberal than the policy of the government ? |