Example sentences of "[conj] more [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The onus now lay upon the architect to come up with new designs and new ideas with which to counter the rapidly growing effectiveness of artillery aided , from about 1430 , by the reversion to the use of cast-iron shot which , although more expensive than stone shot , did not shatter on impact , could be made more uniformly in greater quantities ( the making of stone shot was , to say the least , laborious ) and in smaller calibre , thereby increasing efficiency by reducing the need for very large and unwieldy cannon . |
| 4 | Although more potent than salbutamol on human airways , salmeterol is a partial agonist achieving about 70% of the maximum effect seen with salbutamol . |
| 5 | Rod-bending bites , although more common when barbel fishing than any other kind , are not the only sort of bite that these fish give . |
| 6 | Crushing batches of eggs on stems or leaves is quicker and more efficient than spraying . |
| 7 | Fiber channel proponents claim the low-latency technology is probably faster and more cost-effective than challenger FDDI . |
| 8 | Alloy is lighter , stronger and more expensive than fibreglass , which tends to be used in budget tents . |
| 9 | Audubon , however , was outraged : ‘ Here there are at present three Works publishing on the Birds of Europe ’ , he wrote to his friend Rev. Bachman , from London in 1835 , ’ — one by Mr Gould and the others by no one knows who — at least I do not know — Works on the Birds of all the World are innumerable — Cheap as dirt and more dirty than dirt … ’ |
| 10 | Some of the Members I interviewed would like wider shots and more panning and reaction shots . |
| 11 | Even the most modern dental cements are very much weaker and more brittle than tooth substance . |
| 12 | Most of what we know has been taught to us as children , and , as children , we have adopted ignorance and prejudices which have become more and more fixed as life goes on . |
| 13 | During the eighties , and now during the nineties , more and more stars , directors and behind-the-scenes boys , have turned to using cocaine , Angel Dust and other substances that are stronger , harder and more dangerous than marijuana . |
| 14 | It is rounder and more pungent than soya sauce . |
| 15 | These deep and very broad rivers are characteristic of the Empire , where travel by boat is often faster and more practical than travel along the primitive roads . |
| 16 | They should also recognise that writing is often more formal and more impersonal than speech : lexical and grammatical features of language both reflect and create these contrasts . |
| 17 | They were heavier and more noisy than wood — and quite hard on the tummy when they were pushed into the ground . |
| 18 | Oat and barley straw is softer and more palatable than wheat and rye , and thus the most suitable for feeding in the sheaf . |
| 19 | The stranger was older and more experienced than Angel . |
| 20 | RACHEL : Yes , and more definite than medicine as well . |
| 21 | It 's safer , less violent and more pleasant than booze — and jailing people is one hell of a way of fucking up their lives . |
| 22 | It 's safer , less violent and more pleasant than booze — and jailing people is one hell of a way of fucking up their lives . |
| 23 | Why , as a senior British civil servant told me last week , is black Africa more and more convinced that Communism and not democracy , is the wave of the future ? |
| 24 | Tony Smith and his friends have undertaken a few short cross-country flights in VS and are getting more and more adventurous as confidence builds . |
| 25 | Firstly , since free labour was cheaper and more productive than slave labour , East Indian sugar could be sold , if allowed to compete on equal terms , at a lower price than West Indian in both the British and European markets . |
| 26 | The glycocalyx of platelets is thicker and more dense than surface coats of other blood cells and is rich in glycoproteins ( Berndt & Phillips , 1981 ) , which is not surprising bearing in mind the number of receptor functions and transport mechanisms active at the platelet surface . |
| 27 | This happened on several occasions , with the kisses and hugs becoming longer and more passionate as time went on . |
| 28 | Adam 's eyes were closed , in some state that looked colder and more complicated than sleep . |
| 29 | In comparison with accountants , bank managers , NHS doctors and estate agents , they were found to be as easy to talk to as bank managers and easier to talk to than all the others bar NHS doctors , to be easier to understand than accountants and estate agents , to be more efficient than accountants and estate agents , to be more hardworking than accountants , bank managers and estate agents , to be as dependable as bank managers and more dependable than accountants and estate agents , to be as up-to-date as accountants and more up-to-date than estate agents . |
| 30 | Although this procedure ( known as bonorum distractio ) was both fairer and more convenient than bonorum venditio , it had none the less been admitted only in exceptional cases under formulary procedure . |