Example sentences of "[noun sg] more [adj] than a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | A spokesman said : ‘ There are ways of calming an aggressive drinker more acceptable than a head butt or kick between the legs . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The voice is very important then , and people usually find a female voice more persuasive than a man 's . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I mean obviously erm a thousand pounds parts and labour is obviously a lot more expensive than a three hundred pound parts and labour . |
| 12 | This is a lot more effective than a ski jacket . |
| 13 | Anyway , I expect it 's a lot more complicated than a truck . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | dogs and other animals There 's no flower more beautiful than a rose . |
| 16 | He nodded , and a shaft of pain more piercing than a sword sliced into her heart . |
| 17 | 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 . |