Example sentences of "[be] more [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It seems to me that you 're more dangerous than a jungle full of tigers . ’ |
| 2 | At least we 're more interesting than the Athenaeum . ’ |
| 3 | they 're more entertaining than the programme some of these adverts , more coffee Jason even Mrs cries |
| 4 | These priests may have been more affluent than the rest of the population , but one has evidence of flesh-eating in the artisan class too . |
| 5 | This would have been more expensive than the winding-sheet but it presented the body in a more natural attitude of repose . |
| 6 | But then any clothes would have been more suitable than the skimpy loincloth that he sports on stage every night in the long-running London musical Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've never been more depressed than the time I was sent off against Hibs . |
| 8 | The opposition to business monopolies has always been more muted than the opposition to labour monopolies , which businessmen and women have vociferously denounced as the root of all evil . |
| 9 | A church setting would undoubtedly have been more atmospheric than the shocking pink of the BBC Concert Hall , but then listeners to the broadcast will only need to worry about aural aesthetics . |
| 10 | I share the opinion of many that a similar figure would have been more appropriate than the controversial statue of Air Marshal Harris outside St Clement Danes . |
| 11 | Nothing perpetrated by the wartime Japanese , African despots or vile South American dictatorships has been more appalling than the horrors visited upon each other by this region 's factions . |
| 12 | We spend about £567 million on regional selective assistance in the public expenditure survey round , and I think that most people now accept that it has been more effective than the automatic grants made under the regional development grants system . |
| 13 | Using a theoretical model originally suggested by Dixit ( 1987 ) , the UK quota has been shown to have been more restrictive than a tariff-equivalent quota , while the EC minimum import price was less restrictive than an optimal tariff . |
| 14 | The French have generally been more reticent than the Germans on this point , aiming their efforts at economic and monetary union instead . |
| 15 | The French pied lowland cattle , like those of the Netherlands and other parts of northern Europe have on the whole been more successful than the Bretons and are mainly dual-purpose breeds of composite origins . |
| 16 | IN Belfast Music Society 's long and distinguished history of concert promotion , no season has been more successful than the one which ended on Saturday night with a recital by the Grieg Trio . |
| 17 | In Birmingham , Lambeth and Croydon the relationship between officers and councillors certainly appears to have been more equal than the ‘ dictatorship of the official ’ thesis would suggest . |
| 18 | He 'd been more clever than the rest , luring her with an ill grandmother rather than with promises of extravagance , but now the truth was out . |
| 19 | To him , Zambia had been virgin six times over , and each deflowering had been more intense than the last . |
| 20 | Cairncross ( 1949 ) has argued that , as rural-urban migration in the nineteenth century was greater in the more prosperous farming areas surrounding towns , the attraction , or ‘ pull ’ , of alternative jobs and higher wages must have been more important than the ‘ push ’ from the decline of farm jobs and the low wages in farming . |
| 21 | Alternatively , the heating of the smoke plume due to its absorption of solar energy may have been more important than the reduced surface heating such that a net warming of the lower atmosphere produced a slight enhancement of the Asian summer monsoon overall ( Browning et al. , 1991 ) or over specific areas such as the Tibetan plateau ( Bakan et al. , 1991 ) . |
| 22 | Maybe the listening had always been more important than the absolution . |
| 23 | The changes have clearly been more marked than the changes in the distribution of income . |
| 24 | They know that in 20th-century Spain , the right has consistently been more centralist than the left . |
| 25 | Lilly had not been more beautiful than the other women who sought him , just more clever . |
| 26 | The only exception to this pattern is the iron knife , an everyday tool which is frequently found in graves , and which may have been more personalised than the more specialised tools and therefore buried with the owner . |
| 27 | Different mink species are more alike than the male and female within the species . |
| 28 | But , the lessons are more subtle than the direct borrowing of the approach and importing it into different service sectors . |
| 29 | In many cases they are more impressive than the resemblance of " my " insects to real insects . |
| 30 | True , they have feeble strength and toughness , but with three wounds they are more resilient than the same frontage of Goblins or Orcs . |