Example sentences of "[adv] more [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is perhaps more common than a share-for-share exchange is for part of the consideration to consist of debentures issued by Newco to vendor shareholders . |
| 2 | Choose a task requiring a variety of skills and experience , not those of an expert ( often an expert alone is much more competent than a group ) . |
| 3 | The relationships described here are much more complex than a simple retrospective stereotype . |
| 4 | The wattage of the tool makes it much more versatile than a basic heat gun , and a range of uses are possible — from warming plastics for bending , to soft soldering of metal pipe connections . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's so much more real than a gas boiler . |
| 6 | An upholstered stool would be much more appropriate than a coffee-table for this attractive and scholarly volume . |
| 7 | This final requirement makes it far re difficult to keep the list up to date but experience shown that a personalised approach is much more successful than a plain " to the industrial correspondent " . |
| 8 | There could even be occasions then extended coverage in a large number of regional and provincial newspapers is much more useful than a short piece in The Times . |
| 9 | 110lb ft of torque at 4400rpm may not sound like much , but in reality the G40 is so near this peak figure from idle to red line that the overall effect is much more impressive than a car that makes you wait until the revcounter is half-way round its scale before it gets going . |
| 10 | As seen in Chapter Six , both of these schemes cut serious injuries by a half , much more impressive than a reduction of one tenth in all injuries . |
| 11 | Hm. 's furniture is very much more practical than a lot of the traditional stuff that 's sold in the shops at vast expense is n't it ? |
| 12 | The row of deutzia grown as a snowy hedge in rough grass is much more effective than a single bush . |
| 13 | This alloy is naturally silvery in colour and is much more hard-wearing than a thin layer of tinning , but it requires a high degree of skill to control the casting conditions . |
| 14 | It will give us that much longer to get to know one another and it will be much more interesting than a 12-hour flight . ’ |
| 15 | And that is much more important than a championship for youth next year . |
| 16 | Recognising that the NHS is much more fragmented than a large company , it would be highly desirable to bring human resource professionals and senior managers together across London to think through how to share best practice and learn from one another as the changes unfold . |
| 17 | Moreover , his ‘ faith ’ might entail something much more profound than a mere conviction of Cortés 's divinity . |
| 18 | It would be possible to resolve the pronoun here by reasoning that a dog biting a vet is much more likely than a vet biting a dog ( or , indeed , of either of them biting himself ) . |
| 19 | I find that his vitality , his sort of erm sense of rightness is incredibly interesting and much more rewarding than a lot of things that are going on on the Continent . |
| 20 | An eighteen or nineteen-year-old is usually much more mature than a fourteen or fifteen-year-old , and may even be contemplating marriage by this time . |
| 21 | The dragonfolk 's taste in clothing did n't run to anything much more imaginative than a leather harness , studded with bronze ornaments . |
| 22 | How much more abominable than a tax on widows ? |
| 23 | The Secretary of State for Wales , for instance , has said : ’ How much more abominable than a tax on widows ? |
| 24 | The problem with such a misrepresentation was much more significant than a mere historical mistake . |
| 25 | Remember as well that a hardwood frame is much more robust than a softwood equivalent . |
| 26 | The new Tory ministry under Harley may have been successful in changing the previous Whig majority in Parliament into a Tory one in the General Election of 1710 ; but the furore unleashed by the Sacheverell affair meant that a Parliament dominated by High Tories was returned , which was much more extreme than a moderate like Harley would have wished . |
| 27 | Complete reimbursement is obviously more attractive than a contribution of a fixed amount . |
| 28 | Thus it could be argued that a doctor is functionally more important than a nurse since his or her position carries with it many of the skills necessary to perform a nurse 's role but not vice versa . |
| 29 | As in Iran , the political imperative in Nicaragua was scarcely more substantial than a dream . |
| 30 | One point that is obvious is that a matching grant is generally more successful than a non-matching grant in stimulating local expenditure on a particular good or service . |