Example sentences of "more [adj] than a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | it is more private than a hearing in the civil courts — the press and public are not entitled to be present |
| 4 | Not that she was admitting to anything more definite than a quiver of tingling excitement every time he came near her , of course . |
| 5 | Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was no more painful than a ring through a punk 's nose . |
| 9 | The warranties on a sale of a business are usually more limited than a sale of shares because taxation and other undisclosed liabilities remain with the offeree and do not pass with the business ( unless otherwise agreed ) . |
| 10 | An upholstered stool would be much more appropriate than a coffee-table for this attractive and scholarly volume . |
| 11 | Now that winter 's coming on , what would be more appropriate than a programme about low temperatures ? |
| 12 | It implies to young people that crack and cocaine are no more dangerous than a glass of wine , beer or spirits . |
| 13 | ( At the extremes , a child of professional parents was about 20 times more likely than a child of semi-skilled and unskilled workers to enter full-time higher education . ) |
| 14 | I will bring you a cloak , it is not much , but warmer and more comfortable than a night on the cliff tops ! ’ |
| 15 | Imagine hosting Christmas for a similarly huge number in a disused warehouse , with nothing more sophisticated than a Portakabin for a kitchen . |
| 16 | There could be nothing more suspicious than a Secretary of State or one of his administrative officials deciding for political or administrative reasons that a particular accident should not be investigated when a vital matter of air safety was at issue . |
| 17 | Josie 's hand slid from around her as if she 'd been holding nothing more substantial than a wisp of smoke . |
| 18 | Medication Imipramine ( a tricyclic antidepressant , Tofranil ) is the only drug that has been shown to be significantly more effective than a placebo in reducing wetting frequency . |
| 19 | Equally a group with a wider range of talents in its midst tends to be more effective than a group with a narrow range of talents . |
| 20 | But I do n't feel as if , I mean it 's it 's not the most pleasant thing in the world but it 's certainly fucking sa it 's safer than a lot of their more easier to put on and take off than and fucking safer and more effective than a lot of their contraception devices . |
| 21 | ( Note : There really is nothing more comforting than a chicken from the kosher butcher . |
| 22 | The small yellow tablets coated in sugar and containing nothing more stimulating than a couple of stiff cups of coffee became the most bitter pill that Bud Johnson ever swallowed . |
| 23 | You are the only woman I know — apart from Lucy — who wears skirts and dresses and make-up and turns me on more powerful than a monsoon with all the steam and heat … |
| 24 | Tempo 30 zones need not therefore consist of anything more complex than a set of signs , an arrangement which pays lip-service to safety improvement yet costs little money . |
| 25 | Moreover , it is the doctor-counsellor as much as anyone else who needs to ask these questions , for often spending time considering these aspects of ill-health might be more helpful than a prescription for drugs . |
| 26 | And that is much more important than a championship for youth next year . |
| 27 | Lewis was subtle enough to see that this was at best a half-truth , and perhaps he was beginning to sense that what Tolkien 's friendship had to offer him was something rather more important than a regress to me nursery . |
| 28 | Surely , she reasoned , the future of a child was more important than a promise to a man who was now dead ? |
| 29 | In this , nothing is more important than a core of energetic teachers with an interest and commitment to such related trends as those of RBL , study skills , information handling and integrated thematic approaches . |
| 30 | It might even be possible to create a ‘ place in the sun ’ , where car parking has been placed underground because a place in the sun for townsfolk is more important than a place in the sun for cars ( e ) . |