Example sentences of "more [adj] than [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Athletic News snorted indignantly : ‘ As a matter of commerce , ten young recruits at £100 a piece might have paid better , and as a matter of sport , the Second Division would be more honourable than retention of places by purchase . ’ |
| 2 | The new crop is more resistant than wheat to diseases , especially to leaf blotch , powdery mildew , and other fungal infections such as the smuts . |
| 3 | In fact Peasgood suggests , in one of the few surveys which have been carried out in this area , that selection in academic libraries from the ‘ book in hand ’ was found to be no more effective than selection from lists ( effectiveness being measured in terms of subsequent issues ) . |
| 4 | I find this particular facility to be more usable than Word For Windows ' text fiddling tools , purely because you can use any font you wish , as long as it is installed in Windows . |
| 5 | Specialist lay representation tended to be more successful than representation by solicitors and barristers . |