Example sentences of "so than " in BNC.
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| 1 | James had said that John Stewart the pedlar had seemed frantic that night — more so than the emergency warranted ? |
| 2 | He was as Romantic as any man of his time , and more so than most ; one ideally suited to Leonard 's own deeply Romantic ( and romantic ) strains — imagists both , rather than surrealists . |
| 3 | For Pound all dates are important but none more so than the date on the calendar above the critic 's desk . |
| 4 | Othello is larger-than-life and never more so than when determined to die , as White demonstrates in a nobly paced resumption of dignity in the difficult final scene . |
| 5 | Wright looked acclimatised to the First Division , more so than his partner Bright , who has yet to score this season . |
| 6 | Lloyds is no more outlandish or intrusive than Tower Bridge and much less so than the monstrous and melancholy Battersea Power Station , a sublime work of imperious architecture that Londoners once loved to hate but now admire . |
| 7 | THE Government has a clever knack of stealing other people 's clothes , never more so than in its espousal of ‘ active citizenship ’ as a desirable virtue . |
| 8 | Matchmaking is a precise art and never more so than when practised by Terry Lawless and Mickey Duff whose most notable achievement so far was to manoeuvre Frank Bruno into a hugely profitable contest against Tyson for the world heavyweight championship . |
| 9 | The policy stakes have been raised ; but nowhere more so than in Britain , which will be the luckiest to avoid a ( pre-election ) recession . |
| 10 | If Marcos was cynical , he was no more so than the American foreign policy which kept him in power and in clover for 20 years . |
| 11 | Academic analysts are unanimous that the British press is highly partisan , even if it is less so than it was in the last century and even though proprietors are strongly profit-motivated . |
| 12 | Though television was pro-government and pro-Conservative it was much less so than other elements of the mass media . |
| 13 | Armstrong 's patrician Oxbridge performance was not very successful in the brash atmosphere of the Australian courts — significantly less so than his performances before House of Commons committees . |
| 14 | As such it was duly added to the membership roll of the contraption known as the United Nations , which asserts that all nations are equal ( albeit some more so than others ) , with one vote each , just as if they were individual human beings in a right-little tight-little democratic State . |
| 15 | But when the death coach came galloping out of the wild black sky to take Darby O'Gill to hell , it fairly put the fear of God in me ; more so than any clergyman before or since , however vivid their threats of eternal damnation . |
| 16 | Camp knows and takes pleasure in the tact that desire is culturally relative , and never more so than when , in cathecting contemporary style , it mistakes itself , and the style , for the natural . |
| 17 | In so many respects utterly ditferent from Wilde , Genet nevertheless also subverts the depth model of identity via the perverse dynamic , and perhaps more so than any other writer since Wilde . |
| 18 | On the other hand , tasks of party management and maintaining Cabinet cohesion are more insistent , though perhaps less so than for a German Chancellor or Italian Premier . |
| 19 | And you have to be updated periodically , more so than in the past . |
| 20 | patiently , even more so than usual , I wished it out of the shade . |
| 21 | The British Army has an appallingly difficult job to do in Northern Ireland , none more so than the infantry . |
| 22 | Instead , they had a forty-five-minute audience , which Diana was extremely nervous about — more so than at any meeting with any leader before or since . |
| 23 | The Prince and Princess had both been on particularly good form throughout that Gulf tour , and were reduced to giggles on several occasions , none more so than during a desert picnic . |
| 24 | Wilkinson says his area is a difficult one , but no more so than for scholars writing about military strategy and intelligence . |
| 25 | Film can cruelly expose limitations , and nowhere more so than in the case of the gloomy Dane and the blue-eyed wonder . |
| 26 | Today 's organised and systematic searches of the skies record far more red-shifts in a year or so than Dr Sandage has measured in his life — and have , in doing so , found strange currents , superimposed on the overall expansion , in which galaxies flow like twigs on a stream . |
| 27 | Edward never proposed to me , I never ‘ accepted ’ him , yet here we are just as much engaged and much more so than lovers of whom I have read . |
| 28 | Faced by the weakest bowling attack ever to leave Australia , the England batsmen had made hay , none more so than the captain , and some people felt that the confidence this built up would give them a lift in the Caribbean . |
| 29 | The ‘ lifting up of the face ’ speaks powerfully and movingly of reconciliation , more so than our grey ‘ accept ’ ever can . |
| 30 | ‘ The development has been eagerly awaited by everyone but none more so than the livestock producers of Caithness and Sutherland , who depend so much on sound transport links with customers in the south . ’ |