Example sentences of "more [adj] than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | The warranties on a sale of a business are usually more limited than a sale of shares because taxation and other undisclosed liabilities remain with the offeree and do not pass with the business ( unless otherwise agreed ) . |
| 32 | The rules were more limited than the report of subcommission . |
| 33 | And ‘ dinner ’ sounded an awful lot more enticing than the prospect of another hamburger from the greasy little café down the road . |
| 34 | They had left The Courts , passed the countless rows of back-to-back houses , no cleaner , no more sanitary than the half-mile of buildings behind them . |
| 35 | But those are the two risks the police had to weigh up and what they will tell you is that one risk , a gunman on the loose , is a potential to main and kill , one is far , far more serious than the risk of causing some temporary fear and fright of little children . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | The use of Form N111 , even if it has become ‘ obsolete , ’ was in fact more appropriate than the use of Form N79 , although it suffers from the same defect as the High Court form in that it does not draw the attention of the contemnor to his right to apply to the court to purge his contempt . |
| 38 | Nothing could be more splendid than the decoration of the Cathedral — velvet and ermine — gold and silver — flags and hangings of all colours were combined and harmonized with the splendid costumes of the Clergy , the uniforms civil and military , and the magnificent dresses of the ladies . |
| 39 | It implies to young people that crack and cocaine are no more dangerous than a glass of wine , beer or spirits . |
| 40 | ( At the extremes , a child of professional parents was about 20 times more likely than a child of semi-skilled and unskilled workers to enter full-time higher education . ) |
| 41 | ‘ What job is it you have here that makes you so much more likely than the rest of your family to attain a Mercedes ? ’ |
| 42 | But more likely is the possibility that it will continue to respond to events , in the way it has done in the past — and there is no guarantee that the evolution Cox envisages will be any more natural than the modernization of Iran seemed to be in the 1970s . |
| 43 | Bob knocked back his coffee , and I was about to stand when he said , ‘ Listen , Alex , I do n't know if I should say this to a poet , but there are some things a damn sight more urgent than the doggerel of a dead country squire . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | What is the point of all that careful breeding with suitable people , all that specialised education and upbringing , if not to produce people who are somehow nobler and more self-sacrificing than the rest of us ? |
| 46 | Solidarity ministers , who this time last year were huddled in places like Warsaw 's scruffy Czytelnik café plotting nothing more ambitious than the legalisation of their union , now wake up each morning to the daunting task of building a new democratic Poland on the rubble of the old communist one . |
| 47 | There could be nothing more suspicious than a Secretary of State or one of his administrative officials deciding for political or administrative reasons that a particular accident should not be investigated when a vital matter of air safety was at issue . |
| 48 | Beauty is everywhere , and even in the insignificant eyelashes there is seen a gateway worthy of the eyes — an archway of beams of rainbows more magnificent than the gateway of the greatest city . |
| 49 | These priests may have been more affluent than the rest of the population , but one has evidence of flesh-eating in the artisan class too . |
| 50 | Some people feel it as no more irritating than the sting of a nettle , and have survived multiple stings ; others , who are allergic to the venom , may experience unpleasant effects or worse from a single sting . |
| 51 | And in twelfth-century music there is no place more famous than the abbey of St Martial 's in Limoges . |
| 52 | Josie 's hand slid from around her as if she 'd been holding nothing more substantial than a wisp of smoke . |
| 53 | What was ‘ not right ’ was no more sinister than the inarticulacy of a maimed human . |
| 54 | The more selective bibliographies — such as those in ‘ lists for further reading ’ — are often more useful than the sort of lengthy , unclassified bibliographies which give no clue to the standing of individual items . |
| 55 | But I do n't feel as if , I mean it 's it 's not the most pleasant thing in the world but it 's certainly fucking sa it 's safer than a lot of their more easier to put on and take off than and fucking safer and more effective than a lot of their contraception devices . |
| 56 | He 'd be a good man to have on your side — but as an enemy he 'd be more lethal than the Scorpion of his star-sign . |
| 57 | The small yellow tablets coated in sugar and containing nothing more stimulating than a couple of stiff cups of coffee became the most bitter pill that Bud Johnson ever swallowed . |
| 58 | The mind is much more powerful than the aroma of an essential oil . |
| 59 | The Primer expresses it : and in contemplative understanding the historical resurrection of love is experienced as an inner reality more powerful than the block of sin ( guarded tomb ) that separates man from Christ . |
| 60 | Tempo 30 zones need not therefore consist of anything more complex than a set of signs , an arrangement which pays lip-service to safety improvement yet costs little money . |