Example sentences of "more [noun] than the [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 | In general , the working class wife evinced more sympathy than the working class husband . |
| 4 | He has been able to involve many more clubs than the senior side . |
| 5 | Your daughter does n't live extravagantly enough for it to be noticed that she has more money than the average student . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the immediate pre-war period , the Bolsheviks ' Pravda attracted much more support than the Menshevik organ , Luch . |
| 8 | But Cray 's music has always shown the influence of more forms than the urban twelve-bar . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , if an agent is enjoying the wine with a Bryan Adams , he or she may be drinking the vinegar with a manager 's smaller act who makes much more work than the bigger act , with absolutely no income . |
| 12 | As might have been expected , the larger exhibitions attracted considerably more visitors than the smallest exhibition , but all three received a generally favourable response from the public , with both the Carlyle and MacLean exhibitions being rated as Very Good or Good by at least 90% of those who saw them , and with 78% of those who saw the Skinner exhibition giving it similar ratings . |
| 13 | She was carrying more rivets than the average U-Boat and would probably have turned a compass away from Magnetic North . |
| 14 | But , on average , people in the United Kingdom do not pay more tax than the average European . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Coins rained down on to the stage , and accepting their payment caused her more embarrassment than the impromptu show she was putting on . |
| 18 | ‘ The serving arm of a pro tennis player has 30% more bone than the other arm , ’ Goodship points out . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It ought to be said that this particular extract poses more difficulties than the normal run of parish registers . |
| 21 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
| 22 | At high concentrations , the blood becomes a sort of chemical sponge , capable of drawing in whatever meagre supplies of water exist , even when the toad 's body already contains much more water than the surrounding area of soil . |
| 23 | Round peas contain much more starch than the wrinkled variety which contain more sugar . |
| 24 | What could be more UN-NOISE than the slickly-planned career move , and tailored manifestos of the Age of Chance ? |
| 25 | The only year where they coincide is nineteen twenty , the great erm influenza epidemic actually killed more people than the first world war , and er as you 'll see , despite increasing trends in health care which have reduced the overall rate , the difference in death rate between males and females has remained in the same or , if anything , widened slightly in recent years . |
| 26 | For most of his career after discovering the similia principle , he was inundated with more patients than the average practitioner could have coped with . |
| 27 | In the long term seven people in ten will be drinking water with more nitrate than the European limit in the Anglian region and half those in , Severn Trent . ’ |
| 28 | To the novelist , that alteration in domestic mores seems at first sight to have had more significance than the increasing diversity of styles . |
| 29 | First , without doubt the Supplement is a more practical guide , more heavily illustrated , with much more specificity than the general advice proffered by DB32 , a change which is bound to encourage more innovation among the more timid local authorities . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's all about doing it better and with more style than the next man . |