Example sentences of "[coord] more [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these representations ‘ stamped with immortality ’ , she seemed to Ford Madox Brown [ q.v. ] ‘ thinner & more deathlike & more beautiful & more ragged than ever ’ . |
| 2 | … the pupils are remarkably honest about their reactions , if anything they tend to be rather hard on themselves in their criticism of their own work , but they very , very rarely pretend that it 's better than , or more successful than they actually feel it is . |
| 3 | Nothing could be more elegant or more brilliant than these smaller gatherings where the best of Parisian society could be found . |
| 4 | … delighted , enchanted , amused and interested , and I think I never saw anything more beautiful and gay than Paris — or more splendid than all the palaces . |
| 5 | And handbag designers do n't come much younger , prettier or more stylish than Anya Hindmarch . |
| 6 | There could , of course , be an entirely new statutory definition either wider or more restricted than existing law . |
| 7 | It becomes an argument about propriety : Smith says ‘ May it not be that in woman the physical pain neutralizes the sexual emotions which would otherwise … tend very much to alter our estimation of the modesty and retiredness proper to the sex , and which are never more prominent or more admirable than on these occasions ? ’ |
| 8 | The third sub-type of academic course is less easy to describe , but it is broader or more general than the two-subject degree . |
| 9 | Standard weepers are produced by budding and sometimes grafting , rambler types into stems a foot ( 30cm ) or more higher than bush types in order to enhance the weeping effect . |
| 10 | The body fluids of marine fish are generally more dilute than those of sea water , and would be expected to freeze at temperatures of -0.6° to -0.8°C ( Schmidt-Nielsen , 1975 ) , a degree or more higher than the freezing point of polar sea water . |
| 11 | He had thus seldom been cooler or more controlled than now , as he told McGann that yes indeed he had been travelling , and no , it was none of the Society 's business where or about what pursuit . |
| 12 | It must be appreciated that , although the population of the world is about a million times larger than the population of a large village , the model needed to make a reasonable study of some major world trends and problems is not necessarily much larger or more complex than the village model . |
| 13 | Moreover , no ruler had a title longer or more complex than that of the tsar ; and none was more ready to resent the omission of even the smallest part of it . |
| 14 | Many necessities of life were hard to find or more expensive than before the war ; even motor fuels , derived from the one substance the country possessed in abundance , rose in price as the war pursued its course . |
| 15 | Well I do n't like it very much but it has this very interesting discussion as to whether a fax was cheaper or more expensive than the telephone |
| 16 | According to the relative specialisation models , both hemispheres can perform a given function but one is faster or more efficient than the other . |
| 17 | hero-narrator of Great Expectations , known as ‘ Pip ’ because , as he explains , ‘ my father 's family name being Pirrip , and my Christian name Philip , my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip ’ . |
| 18 | My father 's family name being Pirrip , and my Christian name Philip , my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip . |
| 19 | However , if UK rules are more stringent or more restrictive than French rules , the branch would be at an immediate competitive disadvantage against its local competition . |
| 20 | For the rest of us crying is a hit or miss experience , sometimes satisfying but sometimes leaving us drained , exhausted or more hopeless than when we started . |
| 21 | Though Cognitive–Behavioural Marital Therapy has consistently been found to be as or more effective than any other type of marital therapy , nevertheless in terms of the proportion of clients that actually improve , the results are quite modest . |
| 22 | Only as late as 1918 was it established — by a woman doctor — that the juice of lemons is more than twice as rich in anti-scorbutic vitamins as that of the lime , for long thought to be as or more effective than lemon juice in the prevention of scurvy . |
| 23 | My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others ' troubles ( or of future danger to myself ) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty ( or to avoid or irrationally court danger ) when I do become aware ; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted . |
| 24 | Next week we must have Brian or Gerry telling you why I 'm wrong and they 'd be as persuasive , or more persuasive than I 'm being , but I ca n't see the case for such a thing as a law of form . |
| 25 | No scene , perhaps , in The Lord of the Rings is more moving or more suggestive than the one in which Sam and Frodo , in Mordor , see the wind changing and the darkness driven back , and then as if in answer to prayer come upon a trickle of water : ‘ ill-fated ’ and ‘ fruitless ’ in appearance , but at that moment seemingly a message from the world outside , beyond the Shadow . |
| 26 | It is still unclear whether this is due to some intrinsic characteristic of people who became nuclear workers , or more likely because of the reduced opportunities or smoking allowed by work restrictions . |
| 27 | The moon itself was not colder or more silent than this strangely arctic Munding landscape . |
| 28 | First , it is progressive : in some sense , each succeeding level must be more advanced or more difficult than its predecessors . |
| 29 | But the basic discovery of the Detroit mentality was that a design did not have to be better engineered , more functional or more beautiful than what was already on the market in order to outsell it ; it just had to be newer . |
| 30 | The recent debate about whether Spenser is typical of ‘ New English ’ perspectives on Ireland or more extreme than most is not particularly the point . |