Example sentences of "[adv] powerful than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be critical , the JD 's Japanese pickups are certainly less powerful than the Signature 's and , overall , they err on the empty-sounding side — a hint of extra mid-range would n't go amiss . |
| 2 | And the tally of crown successes over its opponents far outnumbers its few failures ; Douglases , Crichtons , Livingstones , Erskines , Gordons , Hamiltons and many other members of aristocratic families who lost out to the crown over a huge range of disputes , from the heights of violent conflict to the crown 's ability to beat off rival claimants to lands , would have been astonished by the belief of later historians that they were more powerful than the monarchy . |
| 3 | Because the new government had an effective army it could raise much more revenue from taxes than the King had done , and so was more powerful than the monarchy had been . |
| 4 | The apparent paradox is that , on the evidence provided by such teams as Neath and Llanelli , the clubs individually are more powerful than the country collectively . |
| 5 | But a proton machine in the same tunnel , with magnets a bit more powerful than the SSC 's , could produce 8TeV beams . |
| 6 | To minimise that advantage CERN is also concentrating on building magnets more complex and more powerful than the SSC 's . |
| 7 | Then , as her eyes swept over the crowd clustered round the stage , she did a double-take , spotting one figure much larger and more powerful than the rest . |
| 8 | Artegall keeps control and this allows victory over a savage force which appears much larger and more powerful than the knight . |
| 9 | George Buchanan also contends that it is the people who are the ultimate source of the laws : " the Law is more powerful than the King , and the People more powerful than the Law " for " the People is as it were the Parent of the Law , certainly the Author thereof . " |
| 10 | George Buchanan also contends that it is the people who are the ultimate source of the laws : " the Law is more powerful than the King , and the People more powerful than the Law " for " the People is as it were the Parent of the Law , certainly the Author thereof . " |
| 11 | As an example of direct derivation we here prove a law relating IF and ALT that is apparently more powerful than the law unc we already have . |
| 12 | Losing oneself in the other when one party is more powerful than the other can only mean the one submitting to the other . |
| 13 | The reason it thinks your 486SX is a 386 is that the two processors do share many common features , it just that one is a lot more powerful than the other . |
| 14 | Indeed , the increased concentration of central government on local government spending helped to increase its political profile , locally as well as nationally , at just the time when reorganization had created authorities with major staffing and financial resources , authorities more powerful than the patchwork quilt of councils which they replaced . |
| 15 | The mind is much more powerful than the aroma of an essential oil . |
| 16 | The notion that there is nothing more to the idea of parliamentary sovereignty than that Parliament is more powerful than the Crown has a strange ring to today 's ears . |
| 17 | The Primer expresses it : and in contemplative understanding the historical resurrection of love is experienced as an inner reality more powerful than the block of sin ( guarded tomb ) that separates man from Christ . |
| 18 | It seems for many the idea of setting up behind the bar is even more powerful than the interest rates . |
| 19 | A blend of clove , thyme , lavender and peppermint , for example , is far more powerful than the chemist might expect of the blend ( taking into account the combined chemical constituents of the oils ) . |