Example sentences of "more [adj] than [det] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gave her a dull all-over pain more acute than any kind of real pain . |
| 2 | The indignation within the Motability community at this venomous attack was more gratifying than any form of recognition that we might have obtained . |
| 3 | It was a yearning far more powerful than any yearning of the senses . |
| 4 | The climate is a good deal more hospitable than many parts of Britain . |
| 5 | More important than these theories of causation are the ideas about treatment which flow from them . |
| 6 | More important than any lack of efficacy is the very real risk that vaccines prepared from killed or attenuated virus particles may contain carcinogenic elements . |
| 7 | It also helps to show that more fundamental than any knowledge of objects are certain feelings , needs and desires , and that it is upon a phenomenological elucidation of such feelings , needs and desires that an ontological description of the world must be based . |
| 8 | However , the chemistry of the atmosphere is far more complicated than this list of ingredients suggests , for many of the atmospheric gases react with each other to produce yet more compounds , some of which are extremely short-lived ( and therefore difficult to measure ) . |
| 9 | Which if nothing else , qualifies it as more mature than those Ministry of Agriculture officials who pronounced themselves this week to be ‘ absolutely happy ’ that it should now be on sale . |
| 10 | Its trouble was that it could lead to just-so stories rather than to information ; it was more provisional than some kinds of science . |
| 11 | Afterwards , while the congregation said the rosary , praying for an end to the war , I heard individual confessions — confessions in wartime are particularly painful and I find the experience more harrowing than any other of my duties as a priest . |
| 12 | Nevertheless as his reign drew to a close Louis was perhaps more hated and certainly more despised than any king of France for generations . |