Example sentences of "was more [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was more expensive than the foam sort , but it will last longer . |
| 8 | The kitten had to go to the vet three times in as many weeks and was more expensive than the baby . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As the name implies , the initial intention was more general than the agenda item and inorganic chemical nomenclature was included . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Reaction from opposition leaders was more muted and the Independent of April 10 described the parties as agreeing to support the measures " in the national interest " . |
| 14 | He climbed back into bed , laying the cello on the right-hand pillow , which was more practical since the telephone was on the left-hand side , and read some music while the child went on going through the numbers in the telephone directory . |
| 15 | And no-one was more delighted than the man who brought him to Central Park — scout Eric Hawley . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | 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 " . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For among the rank and file of the Labour movement , no issue was more emotive than the relief of unemployment . |
| 25 | When the motion passed by one vote , no one was more surprised than the government 's opponents . |
| 26 | 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 . " |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Nothing about the Fifties was more paradoxical than the role women played in it . |
| 29 | As predicted , most passives were produced when the acted-upon was more animate than the actor and least when the actor was more animate than the acted-upon . |
| 30 | When the acted-upon was more animate than the actor 133 passives were used , compared with only 16 when this pattern was reversed . |