Example sentences of "more [adj] than any [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 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Nevertheless as his reign drew to a close Louis was perhaps more hated and certainly more despised than any king of France for generations .
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