Example sentences of "[noun] more [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is a smooth , legitimate executive succession more desirable than a popular one , however it is achieved ? |
| 2 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |
| 3 | It should be stated , however , that what the carers actually said was a good deal more complex than a simple preference for institutional care . |
| 4 | At £55 , it is a good deal more expensive than a ticket on the high-speed train which runs just below the bridge . |
| 5 | This is a world where document management and revision tracking are probably more important than the finer points of typography , the ability to pull information out of the corporate data base more vital than a range of typefaces and sizes . |
| 6 | That is , they would each have to be about 450 times more accurate than a typical real-life secretary . |
| 7 | ( The Profitboss is ten times more effective than a union ) |
| 8 | It was ten to twenty times more powerful than a candle , and thus encouraged the furniture into the room away from the fire , which had often served as supplementary lighting . |
| 9 | It only has 3000 genes and by this criterion is about 20 times more complicated than a bacterium and 40 times less complicated than a human . |
| 10 | ( At the extremes , a child of professional parents was about 20 times more likely than a child of semi-skilled and unskilled workers to enter full-time higher education . ) |
| 11 | A thirty-second verbal report is thirty times more valuable than a thirty-page written report |
| 12 | A spokesman said : ‘ There are ways of calming an aggressive drinker more acceptable than a head butt or kick between the legs . ’ |
| 13 | And that is why fashion at any level needs to capture the imagination , most particularly in a time of economic recession when the consumer is likely to have priorities more urgent than a new frock . |
| 14 | The face of his father 's surgeon , Hua , filled the screen , the old man 's features more expressive than a thousand words . |
| 15 | The love-sick dog went completely off his food , finding his loveable lump more appetising than a bowl of doggy chunks in gravy and soon he was reduced to skin and bone , a mere shadow of the beast his family had grown to know and love . |
| 16 | It suggests that a 65 year-old retiree with a large private income is in some meaningful sense more dependent than a 64 year-old labourer in receipt of a low weekly wage . |
| 17 | The voice is very important then , and people usually find a female voice more persuasive than a man 's . ’ |
| 18 | Esther Breuer might well have been expected to approve this advice , with its implication that depth rather than breadth is of importance , and intimate knowledge of a corner more valuable than a sketchy acquaintance with the globe . |
| 19 | I mean obviously erm a thousand pounds parts and labour is obviously a lot more expensive than a three hundred pound parts and labour . |
| 20 | This is a lot more effective than a ski jacket . |
| 21 | Anyway , I expect it 's a lot more complicated than a truck . |
| 22 | The version with which I was introduced to my housemaster role in the prison service by an experienced principal officer was ‘ One thing more difficult than a busy Borstal boy is an idle Borstal boy . ’ |
| 23 | Each fruit bristled with invisible barbs , a pin-cushion of spider 's craft and cunning , a defence against predators more efficient than a carapace . |
| 24 | dogs and other animals There 's no flower more beautiful than a rose . |
| 25 | He nodded , and a shaft of pain more piercing than a sword sliced into her heart . |
| 26 | And , indeed , the sheer prevalence of Essene thought in the Holy Land at the time also bears witness to a congregation more numerous than a few conclaves of ascetics sequestered in the desert . |