Example sentences of "and more [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ultimately , though , a ship with no rotating parts in its engine room should be not only quieter , smoother and more efficient than a conventional vessel , but a good deal more reliable as well . |
| 2 | Like many square-necks , it sounds fatter , sweeter and more mellow than a typical round-neck . |
| 3 | Among the Nez Perce and Crow people , pieces of horn were glued together and bound with sinew to create a bow ‘ stronger , tougher , more elastic , and more durable than a bow of any other materials ’ . |
| 4 | But I do n't feel as if , I mean it 's it 's not the most pleasant thing in the world but it 's certainly fucking sa it 's safer than a lot of their more easier to put on and take off than and fucking safer and more effective than a lot of their contraception devices . |
| 5 | Nothing can be finer , greater and more influential than a loving home . |
| 6 | A model with a clockwise rotor will already have a slight lean to the right and a turn in that direction will require a greater and more noticeable-bank than a turn to the left . |
| 7 | The impression that a simple one-sided morality is of itself nobler and more clear-headed than a complex one is false . |
| 8 | For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones . |
| 9 | For Acheson , who became Secretary of State in January 1949 , as for most of the Administration , Congress and probably most of the American people , and as a straight and simple choice , France was more important than Vietnam or Indo-China and more valuable than a party aspiring to be government which , in spite of impeccable anti-colonial credentials and its ability to present itself as all things to all men , was beginning to look more and more like an affiliated communist state . |
| 10 | Tonight 's gig encapsulates everything The Farm are good at — simple , terrace-anthem pop which can be entertaining and more affecting than a thousand Simon Dudfield pouts . |
| 11 | I will bring you a cloak , it is not much , but warmer and more comfortable than a night on the cliff tops ! ’ |
| 12 | The Dover Harbour Board argued in the early 1980s that ferries would be both cheaper and more reliable than a fixed link , a stance later adopted by the Flexilink consortium of ferry companies in its attempts to convince Parliament that the Channel Tunnel would be a financial disaster . |
| 13 | This kind of component is much smaller and more reliable than a valve , which was the earliest form of electronic switch . |
| 14 | This is much faster and more fun if a group of you do it together . |
| 15 | Such a hybrid theory will almost certainly be simpler and more principled than a single amorphous and heterogeneous theory of semantics . |
| 16 | More addictive than 0898 chat lines to a sad , lonely halfwit , larger than said sad cases 's phone bills , and more playable than a Dead Kennedys album , this is one game no self-respecting tiletrasher should be without . |