Example sentences of "more [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it was more wrong that the chairman and vice-chairman ( Lord Barnett ) , representing the wider public interest , did not insist on that change in contractual arrangements , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ But it was more wrong that the chairman and vice-chairman , Lord Barnett , representing the wider public interest , did not insist on that change in contractual arrangements , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Both inspectors are presented as more interesting than the colleagues and suspects they move among . |
| 4 | The fact that this was the first downsizing show to be held in Japan is in itself an indication of the major change taking place in the Japanese computer market , which has been even more mainframe-centric than the US and Europe , and indicates the strong power of the economics of small computing . |
| 5 | Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody . |
| 6 | The book , said Beatrice , was used like opium or cocaine by poets and painters as a ‘ defence from modern life , this very modern life of noise and advertisement which they profess to find more real than the glory and the grandeur of earlier civilizations … |
| 7 | It was a delight more magical than the panto and the circus had held when I was little . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Most of them have never held anything more dangerous than a knife and fork before but after just nine hours training they are doing really well , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Recent research has shown that in such cases it is more likely that the animals and humans had been eaten by other predators , such as leopards an hyenas . |
| 11 | Thereafter confusion set in and , from scenes of events , groups of figures , etc. , presented on a very small scale , the term has come to mean elaborate pictures , much more ambitious than the historiations and sometimes extending to the whole of a large page . |
| 12 | We might indeed expect to find several new layers of structure more basic than the quarks and electrons that we now regard as ‘ elementary ’ particles . |
| 13 | By 1326 there were few men more hated than the Despensers and few more feared than the king . |
| 14 | As the crack gets longer , the tip radius remaining the same , the stress concentrations get more severe but the pattern and proportions remain similar . |
| 15 | Human interests and preferences also are important and , frequently , more important than the interests and preferences of other animals . |
| 16 | ‘ Ah , Wilson , ’ Miss Hawarth had said with a smile , ‘ the keeper is more important than the house and then there are your connections , you know . ’ |
| 17 | If they believe ( as they often do ) that human needs and interests are more important than the needs and interests of nonhuman animals , then they can — and , in fact , they often do — believe that we are justified in causing significant pain to animals , even if they belong to endangered species . |
| 18 | The spirit and morale of a nation has no foundation more important than the self-reliance and confidence of its individual people . |
| 19 | She 's more fat than a chip and he 's feeding her tons of stuff . |
| 20 | The oil paintings of this period are considerably more abstract than the etchings and drawings , and many can not be deciphered or reconstructed without the aid of preliminary sketches . |
| 21 | It only has 3000 genes and by this criterion is about 20 times more complicated than a bacterium and 40 times less complicated than a human . |
| 22 | Nothing could be more complicated than the answer and even the answer , he says , is in question . |
| 23 | It was , however , an age when civilization was becoming more vigorous and the number and skill of metal workers were increasing . |
| 24 | The French pied lowland cattle , like those of the Netherlands and other parts of northern Europe have on the whole been more successful than the Bretons and are mainly dual-purpose breeds of composite origins . |
| 25 | Dropping shoulders in a sideways widening direction makes hyperventilation more difficult since the chest and diaphragm muscles are stretched outwards . |
| 26 | ‘ It sounds as though Wheeler was pursuing his old course of the row over the youth club at Narborough and trying to make out Paul 's part was more dishonourable than the Archdeacon and the Bishop said it was . |
| 27 | Unless you have lots of tanks to check or you keep and breed Discus , Rams or maybe Uaru , you have to question if all this fuss is any more convenient than a tube and tablet kit . |
| 28 | Nothing , however , could be more American than the name and image of the New York Yankees . |
| 29 | More plebeian than the Die-hards and entirely independent of Conservative control were the activities of populist organizations who rose to challenge the Coalition government in by-elections at the end of the war . |
| 30 | Nigel assured me that it would be more efficient than the wheel and produce considerably more electricity , and I had to be content with that . |