Example sentences of "much more [adj] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was so much more congenial than the flat near Victoria — unsuitably dominated by Westminster Cathedral — where she had lived with her mother . |
| 2 | Choose a task requiring a variety of skills and experience , not those of an expert ( often an expert alone is much more competent than a group ) . |
| 3 | MOORE 'S VERBAL RECOLLECTIONS OF THE MINES ARE MUCH MORE EVOCATIVE THAN THE DRAWINGS THEMSELVES , IN WHICH THE MINERS APPEAR AS FROZEN STATUARY . |
| 4 | Moore 's verbal recollections of the mines are much more evocative than the drawings themselves , in which the miners appear as a frozen statuary . |
| 5 | Living organisms are much more stable than the molecules of which they are composed . |
| 6 | The Madeiran archipelago is situated on the African plate in an area tectonically much more stable than the Azores . |
| 7 | The keyboard and ensemble ricercari and the canzoni alla francese for ‘ istromenti da tasti ’ of Andrea Gabrieli were nearly all published posthumously when they were probably thirty or forty years old , that is to say not much more modern than the ricercari of Buus and Annibale Padovano ( see p. 234 ) . |
| 8 | They believe that the role of the community educator is much more limited than the rhetoric often implies . |
| 9 | For the first forty minutes they were much more composed than the league leaders and fully warranted the advantage they took in the 13th minute when David Kelly headed home Lee Clark 's cross after a winning midfield challenge by Ranson , a stable influence on his younger colleagues before falling victim to a calf injury twenty minutes from time . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's so much more real than a gas boiler . |
| 11 | An upholstered stool would be much more appropriate than a coffee-table for this attractive and scholarly volume . |
| 12 | This final requirement makes it far re difficult to keep the list up to date but experience shown that a personalised approach is much more successful than a plain " to the industrial correspondent " . |
| 13 | Racing families do n't come much more successful than the Beasleys . |
| 14 | The Whigs , on the whole , were much more cohesive than the Tories , but even here we can make a distinction between Junto Whigs , Court Whigs and Country Whigs . |
| 15 | Hambros Jersey 's contention , if correct , would mean that the jurisdiction of the English court under the sections would be much more restricted than the circumstances in which an individual may be adjudged bankrupt or a company may be wound up by the English court . |
| 16 | The chamois , another mountain specialist , is much lighter and consequently much more agile than the mountain goat . |
| 17 | [ But ] the general picture of community care presented by this evidence on the fate of short stay patients following the closure of long stay hospitals is much more disquieting than the evidence on the planned discharge of long stay patients . |
| 18 | As seen in Chapter Six , both of these schemes cut serious injuries by a half , much more impressive than a reduction of one tenth in all injuries . |
| 19 | 110lb ft of torque at 4400rpm may not sound like much , but in reality the G40 is so near this peak figure from idle to red line that the overall effect is much more impressive than a car that makes you wait until the revcounter is half-way round its scale before it gets going . |
| 20 | Under the no boundary proposal one learns that the chance of the universe being found to be following most of the possible histories is negligible , but there is a particular family of histories that are much more probable than the others . |
| 21 | The air force 's reserves seem much more efficient than the army 's or the navy 's . |
| 22 | If the first state among siblings always leads to a goal , it will be much more efficient than the breadth first version ; but otherwise it may be worse . |
| 23 | None the less they do seem to confirm our general findings that while television was much more informative than the press , it was much less persuasive — and intentionally so ! |
| 24 | Hm. 's furniture is very much more practical than a lot of the traditional stuff that 's sold in the shops at vast expense is n't it ? |
| 25 | Indeed , they may be considered to be much more practical than the visions given to us by politicians and hence may be more likely to have support . |
| 26 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 27 | The mind is much more powerful than the aroma of an essential oil . |
| 28 | It is much more substantial than the policies produced by the Government in their papers on overseas development . |
| 29 | The observation schedule shown on pages 100 to 101 was used by students during a day 's observation of people in a bookshop and helped us to realize that the women shoppers were often much more purposive than the men in their bookshop behaviour . |
| 30 | Lim 's sources of information were seen to be much more effective than the Army 's compromised intelligence gathering network , as evidenced by the fact that four of the chief rebel officers captured since the coup attempt had been tracked down and arrested by the police . |