Example sentences of "more [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | It was a delight more magical than the panto and the circus had held when I was little . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | As the crack gets longer , the tip radius remaining the same , the stress concentrations get more severe but the pattern and proportions remain similar . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | The spirit and morale of a nation has no foundation more important than the self-reliance and confidence of its individual people . |
| 11 | She 's more fat than a chip and he 's feeding her tons of stuff . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Nothing could be more complicated than the answer and even the answer , he says , is in question . |
| 14 | It was , however , an age when civilization was becoming more vigorous and the number and skill of metal workers were increasing . |
| 15 | Dropping shoulders in a sideways widening direction makes hyperventilation more difficult since the chest and diaphragm muscles are stretched outwards . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Nothing , however , could be more American than the name and image of the New York Yankees . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Different mink species are more alike than the male and female within the species . |
| 21 | However , as oceanic lithosphere ages , cools and thickens it becomes more dense than the asthenosphere and rests upon it in an unstable state . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Groups have multiple goals , are more enduring than a coalition and usually involve more members . |
| 24 | I also prefer it because I believe it is more sensitive than a link-leger and gives me a better chance of hooking fish . |
| 25 | If your taste demands something more cultured than a shopping and scoffing experience , you may be fascinated by Dusseldorf 's wealth of museums and galleries . |
| 26 | For several years we have been leaning over backwards to avoid the use of the forbidden word , instructing the population at large that it is more dead than the dodo and deleting it from our titles with abandon . |