Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] form [prep] [noun sg] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed that may be a more subtle form of propaganda than a constant barrage of criticism . |
| 2 | As this case shows , an equitable charge on shares in a private company with articles conferring a lien on the company is likely to be an even more undesirable form of security than shares in private companies always are . |
| 3 | The Community began by taking the line that federations were clearly a more advanced form of government than nation states : it refused to countenance any challenge to ‘ the integrity of Yugoslavia ’ and , under the presidency of Luxembourg , made clear to the Slovenes that small countries were not viable in the new Europe . |
| 4 | There can therefore be little doubt that , in general , sexual assaults constitute a substantially more serious form of harm than mere property offences — which is not to deny that some forms of theft or destruction of property can be more serious than some minor sexual assaults . |
| 5 | The overall conclusion to these studies is that organisations under capitalism are likely to have a more elaborate division of labour , hence a more extensive organisational hierarchy , make greater use of rules and procedures , and generally have a more complex form of organisation than would be the case if there were not a fundamental conflict being worked out within the firm between capital and labour . |
| 6 | The selector may try to assess the complexity of the language used , and how this relates to the linguistic experience of his various reader groups , bearing in mind that some subject areas , and the treatment of them , necessarily demand a more complex form of language than others . |
| 7 | These are all referred to as ‘ supertram ’ networks , the implication being that the new-generation tram is an altogether more dynamic form of transport than its pre-war predecessors . |
| 8 | One importance of the continuum is that it is a more precise form of categorisation than the simple dichotomy . |
| 9 | Because they are a more common form of communication than music , they usually play the major part in our services , with music in a supporting role . |
| 10 | On the contrary , Montaigne argues that the legal procedures common in the Europe of his day by which " under the cloak of piety and religion … neighbours and fellow citizens [ were allowed ] to tear by rack and torture a body still full of feeling , to roast it by degrees and then give it to be trampled and eaten by dogs and swine " were a more horrible form of savagery than anything he had described as prevailing among the Brazilian cannibals . |
| 11 | In the late twentieth century , therefore , people may find the mystical experiment , which also urges the adept to look within himself for the truth and warns against the danger of simplistic ideas and projections about God , a more attractive form of religion than the more conventional and dogmatic types of faith . |
| 12 | His Confessions , written not long before the Fall of Rome , was an even more original form of literature than Rousseau 's written more than a thousand years later , for it was the first true autobiography . |