Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] more [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the last thing a 12-string requires is a set of Velvet Brick humbuckers , and the kind of player who 'd want a 6-string like the Teardrop will probably be looking for more twang than thrang , and so the same applies . |
| 2 | Despite their far longer involvement in the Middle East , the members of the European Community felt inhibited from acting with more resolution than the United States . |
| 3 | The latter is less efficient in producing a water supply , leading to more consumption than otherwise , but it may be a relatively efficient way of ensuring an equal chance of access to it . |
| 4 | Like any stimulating text it leaves the reader pondering on more questions than it answers . |
| 5 | The wily captain 's luck was holding in more ways than one for the customs search team found that one of the French shells had ricochetted down an alleyway , through the door of the Captain 's cabin and had embedded itself in the leg of a table where the occupant would have been sitting . |
| 6 | However he went extra wide , and ended up getting in more business than any of them . |
| 7 | It had been an uneventful morning , apart from the trainer behaving with more surliness than usual , and Kelly needed to talk to Annie . |
| 8 | He will be hoping for more wickets than his 45 last year from 15 games . |
| 9 | This example was worth discussing in more detail than most because the Argille scagliose type of " catastrophic " deposit is now recognised in many parts of the world , from California to Formosa . |
| 10 | Typical is Arthur Seton in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ) , described by the film 's director Karel Reisz , as ‘ a sad person , terribly limited in his sensibilities , narrow in his ambitions and a bloody fool into the bargain ’ who ends up throwing a stone towards the housing estate that is his final destination , declaring with more bravado than honesty , ‘ It wo n't be the last one I 'll throw . ’ |