Example sentences of "[vb -s] more [noun sg] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Follow-on milk contains more protein than breast milk or formula , but since protein deficiency is practically unheard of in this country , extra protein is n't really necessary . |
| 2 | ‘ It has more dignity than charm but it has shops and is closer than Córdoba . ’ |
| 3 | He is a gentleman of complete integrity , ‘ disdainful of all littleness and meanness ’ , to whom honour has more importance than life itself . |
| 4 | Thorne 's ‘ Sports Page ’ , which was highly commended at last year 's Woodworker Show , uses more line than grain for the cartoon effect . |
| 5 | On looking back , I now realise that corporal punishment , if administered justly and wisely , does more good than harm . |
| 6 | We shall then be in a much better position to state when and where screening does more good than harm . |
| 7 | Similarly , although the bog standard graphics cards from Hercules to VGA are supported , VGA makes more sense than CGA . |
| 8 | Though he was an adequate mariner , he was by no means an expert fisherman , being the sort of man who makes more conversation than profit from his catches ; but after a trip across to Plymouth early in the new year , he returned looking exceedingly pleased with himself , dressed in finer clothes than were often seen on the Polruan side of the Fowey , and full of the news that he intended to commission John Knollys to build him a bark of a hundred tons . |