Example sentences of "was more [adj] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this may be " absurd " , there are other hints that the position was more complex than the Encomiast either knew or wanted to admit . |
| 2 | Because the new government had an effective army it could raise much more revenue from taxes than the King had done , and so was more powerful than the monarchy had been . |
| 3 | Although he was more powerful than the Woodvilles , they were closer to the prince . |
| 4 | Although he was more powerful than the Woodvilles , they were closer to the prince . |
| 5 | They did so with huge amounts of debt , not because that was the ideal financial structure but because the debt market was more liquid than the equity market . |
| 6 | Just as the idea of a voyage was more satisfying than the trip itself for the poet Baudelaire , the Romantic tradition in France is strong enough for the idea of a well thought-out plan to be more important than its execution . |
| 7 | In the eighteenth century British consumption , rising steadily at a bit over 2 per cent a year , was more buoyant than the re-export trade , which made the British preferential tariff more advantageous to the planters . |
| 8 | One thing I thought was nice was that one little boy , was more noisy than the others but it started thundering once and he came and held my hand as he was scared . |
| 9 | They were specialists , too , in that they favoured one type of war , that of surprise in which the dawn raid was more effective than the siege . |
| 10 | Its findings seemed to show that the claims made by Rhodes Boyson and his Black Paper colleagues were all-too-well founded , ie that formal structured teaching was more effective than the methods endorsed by the Plowden Report . |
| 11 | Constant immigration to this relatively new country ( cp. p. 57 on Thurii ) and population transfers meant that the citizen body of many west Greek communities was more fluid than the states of old Greece : this is the ‘ mixed rabble ’ of which Thucydides speaks ( vi.17 , in the mouth of Alcibiades ) . |
| 12 | It was more expensive than the foam sort , but it will last longer . |
| 13 | The kitten had to go to the vet three times in as many weeks and was more expensive than the baby . |
| 14 | He tries to concern us with the problem of liberals : ‘ When I trained , ’ says Gumede , an ANC guerrilla , ‘ they said that the liberal was more dangerous than the enemy . ’ |
| 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 | As the name implies , the initial intention was more general than the agenda item and inorganic chemical nomenclature was included . |
| 17 | She opened the front door and stepped out into the corridor , which was more private than the flat if mother was only pretending to be asleep , which was possible . |
| 18 | And no-one was more delighted than the man who brought him to Central Park — scout Eric Hawley . |
| 19 | Kevin , in turn , was being watched by his wife , Enid , who had gaoler 's eyes , was more regal than the Queen , and in her spotted dress looked like a Sherman tank with measles . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Erm I , I think I might have missed Adam 's point and I was going back to whether the south was more efficient than the north because just tying it in with the seminar we had on managerial farms , were n't there more in the north than in the south ? |
| 22 | Thus , when his secretary of the treasury ventured on one occasion to suggest that colonial rule was more efficient than the successor regimes in the newly independent states , the president brusquely retorted that it was his " personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than accept the political domination of another government even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living " . |
| 23 | This proved too ambitious ; the Twenty-Second Session favoured separate texts for civil and for criminal matters , and a subsequent Expert Group , meeting in New Delhi in 1982 , decided that a model bilateral agreement in each of these areas was more appropriate than a draft convention . |
| 24 | It looked the same as the other one to her , except perhaps that the knuckle bone of the little finger was more prominent than the rest and the finger itself rather stiff . |
| 25 | In the C & G advertisements an interest rate of 12.75 per cent , which was the annual flat rate , was more prominent than the APR of 13.7 per cent . |
| 26 | There was a significant decrease in the ratio of pepsinogen-I to pepsinogen-II in H pylori positive compared with H pylori negative subjects ( p<0.001 ) , because in H pylori positive subjects the increase in pepsinogen-II was more pronounced than the increase in pepsinogen-I . |
| 27 | For among the rank and file of the Labour movement , no issue was more emotive than the relief of unemployment . |
| 28 | When the motion passed by one vote , no one was more surprised than the government 's opponents . |
| 29 | In a way it was more exciting than the act itself , and I was so physically enraptured that I said : " We should have done this before . " |
| 30 | As the population of Wales is smaller and more dispersed than in England , the creation of community councils as successors to former boroughs and urban district councils was more widespread than the creation of successor parishes in England . |