Example sentences of "more [noun] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hindle 's survey at the University of Lancaster , where a departmental selection system operated , showed that in one year a total of 17 departments had added books on the subject of ‘ operational research ’ to their collections — two of these ordering more titles than the operational research department itself . |
| 2 | Public sector data users have generally had considerably more requests than the private sector , which conforms with evidence put forward at the committee stages of the Data Protection Bill that the public sector is viewed as offering the greatest threat to individual liberties . |
| 3 | She had more teeth than a game-show hostess on ZeeBeeCee , and breasts like udders . |
| 4 | In general , the working class wife evinced more sympathy than the working class husband . |
| 5 | He has been able to involve many more clubs than the senior side . |
| 6 | My your Mum 's had more pricks than a secondhand dart board . |
| 7 | Christ almighty , she 's had more pricks than a second-hand dart board ! ’ |
| 8 | This means in turn that they must be shining almost unbelievably brightly — perhaps 100 or more times than an average galaxy . |
| 9 | Either arbitration or litigation would have taken more time and cost more money than a successful reference to an expert . |
| 10 | Your daughter does n't live extravagantly enough for it to be noticed that she has more money than the average student . |
| 11 | To be envious , in Axelrod 's terminology , means to strive for more money than the other player , rather than for an absolutely large quantity of the banker 's money . |
| 12 | In the immediate pre-war period , the Bolsheviks ' Pravda attracted much more support than the Menshevik organ , Luch . |
| 13 | But Cray 's music has always shown the influence of more forms than the urban twelve-bar . |
| 14 | David Scott , for example , complained that he got so many requests for Indian patronage from the council of St. Andrews that if the remaining burghs in his district were to seek aid in proportion to the size of their communities it ‘ would require more patronage than the whole East India Direction have in their gift ’ . |
| 15 | I am known all too well that it 's big rough galaxy out there , full of more surprises than the human imagination can conceive of . |
| 16 | Employee fundraising appears to be an increasingly popular option and whilst it involves a lot more work than a straight donation it has the ability to generate longer term grass roots support amongst employees . |
| 17 | If , for example , the idea is simply to produce text files that can then be passed on disk to a typesetting bureau you 'll probably need no more equipment than a basic word processing system . |
| 18 | The columns which they carry on their backs have more fluting than a respectable column would accept and the Corinthian capitals have swirls and squiggles that would have been prohibited in Corinth . |
| 19 | She was carrying more rivets than the average U-Boat and would probably have turned a compass away from Magnetic North . |
| 20 | We well a a foreman usually was over more workers than a charge- hand was . |
| 21 | But , on average , people in the United Kingdom do not pay more tax than the average European . |
| 22 | NICO , PATTI SMITH , The Stooges , Jonathan Richman , La Monte Young , John Cage , Nick Drake , Eno , Squeeze , Happy Mondays — John Cale 's CV is studded with the most intriguing of collaborations ; he has traversed more ground and confused more expectations than the average musician has a right to . |
| 23 | In very general terms the western half of Britain is much higher , wetter , and more acid than the eastern half and the northern half colder than the South ( see Figure 1 ) . |
| 24 | Coins rained down on to the stage , and accepting their payment caused her more embarrassment than the impromptu show she was putting on . |
| 25 | For the cichlid community aquarium they are a boon as they will remove all and any debris in the water , have a large filtering area and therefore can hold much more waste than an internal filter . |
| 26 | More gobbledegook than a carnival conjuror . |
| 27 | If the indices are raised , say , from 2 to , then the closed curve produced has more character than a simple rectangle or a simple ellipse … it becomes a superellipse . |
| 28 | ‘ The serving arm of a pro tennis player has 30% more bone than the other arm , ’ Goodship points out . |
| 29 | The subordinate females do have one or two ways of retaliating — they tend to go on laying longer and produce more eggs than the dominant female , and they also produce the occasional late egg some time after they have laid the rest of their clutch . |
| 30 | It ought to be said that this particular extract poses more difficulties than the normal run of parish registers . |