Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if Turgenev were to object that one could not find a more typical product of the 1840s than the Petrashevsky Circle to which Dostoevsky belonged , how would the other man reply ? |
| 2 | This in reality does n't have to be so ; for happiness is in the grasp of everyone , rich or poor ; in fact more in the grasp of the poor than the rich . |
| 3 | The matching open-ended grant ( price subsidy ) will always lead the authority to consume more of the good than an unconditional non-matching grant ( lump-sum subsidy ) . |
| 4 | One profession which sees more of the bereaved than the rest of us are undertakers . |
| 5 | Because of inflation , real food prices in the great majority of Latin American countries were higher at the end of the 1970s than the beginning . |
| 6 | A higher proportion of the temporary than the total labour force are women ( 54 per cent compared to 41 per cent ) . |
| 7 | In other words , the sample in the latter case would have to be a greater proportion of the total than the former . |
| 8 | When some of us are small we hear a great deal of criticism , more of the negative than the positive . |
| 9 | They found that of those males who reported acute sickness or chronic sickness without any limiting effect on activity , a larger proportion of the lower than the higher socio-economic groups consulted their doctors ; there was no consistent trend in the case of the females . |
| 10 | Nothing has been more ominous in the doctrinal shift of the 1980s than the actual hostility to this term which can now be found in Roman teaching . |
| 11 | It is true that lengthy and detailed scrutiny takes place in a Standing Committee off the floor of the House , but even then it is typically the special interest groups , briefing Opposition spokesmen and Government backbenchers alike , which provide more of the dynamic than the representation of constituents ' views . |
| 12 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 13 | In the last interview he gave to a French journalist before the war began , Ho , in envisaging the way in which ‘ at all costs war must be averted ’ , seemed to accept independence within the French Union ; although unless this was based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of the French Union , which also seems unlikely , this was probably more of a smoke-screen than a smoke-signal . |
| 14 | More of a revolutionary than a reformer . ’ |
| 15 | Indeed , among these villains of the wheel , the woman cyclist was possibly even more of a portent than the cyclist juror . |
| 16 | The researcher engaged in the social study of baptism may well decide at an early stage of the study that in modern British society baptism is more of a social than a religious ceremony . |
| 17 | And there would be no more reason for establishing the membership of a co-operative than the investors in a joint stock company as such a group . |
| 18 | Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Schools is more of a lap-dog than a rottweiler . |
| 19 | The second half was even more of a grab-bag than the first , the suspicion growing in Jude as she watched that the parody and pastiche was a smoke-screen put up to cover the creators ' embarrassment at their own sincerity . |
| 20 | Their concept of support was also very broad , and their assessment more of a quantitive than a qualitive one . |
| 21 | It is more of a cabal than a cabinet , more of a permanent diplomatic conference than a senate . |
| 22 | By any description , the National Socialist League sounds more like the germ of a situation-comedy than a serious political movement . |
| 23 | SERPS consists of no more than a promise that future generations will pick up the bill . |
| 24 | Yet for many centuries , Cheltenham consisted of no more than a single street , lined with a few houses . |
| 25 | Even an estate worth upwards of £100 a year might well consist of no more than a couple of manors plus an assortment of lesser parcels , all located in a single county . |
| 26 | It is relatively young , with a probable age of no more than a few million years . |
| 27 | In the darkness we passed through the defile of Gebel Silsila where the river narrows dramatically to a width of no more than a few yards . |
| 28 | In many cases git consists of no more than a few managers/supervisors . |
| 29 | I have already instanced the first chapter of Simenon 's Maigret 's Pickpocket , which consists of no more than a description of Maigret riding to work on a bus , as being as gripping as any chase sequence , from the absolute accuracy of the writing and its complete economy . |
| 30 | questions with a predetermined answer of no more than a few words |