Example sentences of "more [adj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're all going on a summmer holiday no more working for a week or two . |
| 2 | Reaching 50 caused Claire Gallois to turn against this way of conducting things and against the world in which ageing is much more cruel for a woman than for a man . |
| 3 | Nothing can be more devastating to a fighter than to be caught by his opponent midway between one stance and another . |
| 4 | Does absenteeism relate to particular individuals , or to individuals under a particular supervisor ; are there problems with specific buildings , branches or departments ; is it more prevalent on a Monday or after Bank Holidays ? and so on . |
| 5 | The idea of recycled clothes seemed more exciting in a way than modern clothes . |
| 6 | She may have been more assertive for a while as she found her feet , but she is remembered mainly for the way she consulted staff and her obvious concern to do the best in every situation . |
| 7 | Article 11 can hardly be said , therefore , to ‘ weaken ’ the Convention it allows States who wish to be more generous to a claimant than the minimum standards set out in the earlier articles to do so , but not for more than minimum standards to be imposed by a requesting State on a requested State . |
| 8 | She 'd be far more interested in a bath than … ’ |
| 9 | Altering the diet is also far more risky for a child than it is for an adult , so there are more difficult decisions to be made before embarking on an elimination diet . |
| 10 | And their saddles are far more ornamental with a horn that cowboys use to tie up their lassoos . |
| 11 | They knew that there was nothing more off-putting for a woman that a romantic encounter at the cinema holding hands with a large dollop of Castrol GTX . |
| 12 | Surely a flashing red light would be far more visible in a tunnel than a static light ? |
| 13 | If anything , you 're more intriguing as a woman than you were as a girl . |
| 14 | The ECG manifestations may be more prominent in a sibling or a parent and can help to make the correct diagnosis . |
| 15 | It may not necessarily impair the reliability of data in the computer that you feed in something which will produce a result more favourable to a customer than the store holder intended . |
| 16 | Many of the cathedrals are former parish churches and they retain an attitude to music which is more appropriate to a parish than to a cathedral . |
| 17 | Once he was in power , this alternative view would argue , his policies were more consistent with a belief that it was still feasible to salvage some kind of organic link between France and Algeria than with a belief in the inevitability of complete rupture . |
| 18 | We would expect horses to be more comfortable with a horse that looked like itself because it would also be likely to look like its mother . |
| 19 | In fact , even in the lower key , the tessitura of the part is much more comfortable for a countertenor than for a soprano . |
| 20 | It seems likely that the two ‘ fingers ’ at the tip of the trunk are more useful to a species that lives on savanna and finds much of its food by grazing . |
| 21 | Grace has 35 to 40 regular customers per week and says she owes much of her success to the course , which has helped her become more confident as a businesswoman and as a boss . |
| 22 | Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it . |
| 23 | Infidelity had become freshly dangerous , potentially much more lethal to a marriage than adultery had been previously . |
| 24 | I would find it even more extraordinary from a party that claims to care about investment , yet clearly has no understanding that investment comes from savings . |
| 25 | No city in the world is more vulnerable to a fire than Venice and no city in the world has less adequate defences . |
| 26 | It 's the reason why The Smiths are more powerful as a pop as art . |
| 27 | In short , he becomes more credible as a negotiator and as an enforcement agent . |
| 28 | For example , it may be more important for a government that a public sector pay settlement appear to be within the limits of pay policy , than for it actually to be so . |
| 29 | What she is really saying , after all this time , is that it is more important for a woman than a man to look good . |
| 30 | Therefore , complex carbohydrates are initially more important after a work-out than protein . |