Example sentences of "and more [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crushing batches of eggs on stems or leaves is quicker and more efficient than spraying . |
| 2 | Fiber channel proponents claim the low-latency technology is probably faster and more cost-effective than challenger FDDI . |
| 3 | Alloy is lighter , stronger and more expensive than fibreglass , which tends to be used in budget tents . |
| 4 | Audubon , however , was outraged : ‘ Here there are at present three Works publishing on the Birds of Europe ’ , he wrote to his friend Rev. Bachman , from London in 1835 , ’ — one by Mr Gould and the others by no one knows who — at least I do not know — Works on the Birds of all the World are innumerable — Cheap as dirt and more dirty than dirt … ’ |
| 5 | Even the most modern dental cements are very much weaker and more brittle than tooth substance . |
| 6 | Most of what we know has been taught to us as children , and , as children , we have adopted ignorance and prejudices which have become more and more fixed as life goes on . |
| 7 | During the eighties , and now during the nineties , more and more stars , directors and behind-the-scenes boys , have turned to using cocaine , Angel Dust and other substances that are stronger , harder and more dangerous than marijuana . |
| 8 | It is rounder and more pungent than soya sauce . |
| 9 | These deep and very broad rivers are characteristic of the Empire , where travel by boat is often faster and more practical than travel along the primitive roads . |
| 10 | They should also recognise that writing is often more formal and more impersonal than speech : lexical and grammatical features of language both reflect and create these contrasts . |
| 11 | They were heavier and more noisy than wood — and quite hard on the tummy when they were pushed into the ground . |
| 12 | Oat and barley straw is softer and more palatable than wheat and rye , and thus the most suitable for feeding in the sheaf . |
| 13 | The stranger was older and more experienced than Angel . |
| 14 | RACHEL : Yes , and more definite than medicine as well . |
| 15 | It 's safer , less violent and more pleasant than booze — and jailing people is one hell of a way of fucking up their lives . |
| 16 | It 's safer , less violent and more pleasant than booze — and jailing people is one hell of a way of fucking up their lives . |
| 17 | Tony Smith and his friends have undertaken a few short cross-country flights in VS and are getting more and more adventurous as confidence builds . |
| 18 | Firstly , since free labour was cheaper and more productive than slave labour , East Indian sugar could be sold , if allowed to compete on equal terms , at a lower price than West Indian in both the British and European markets . |
| 19 | The glycocalyx of platelets is thicker and more dense than surface coats of other blood cells and is rich in glycoproteins ( Berndt & Phillips , 1981 ) , which is not surprising bearing in mind the number of receptor functions and transport mechanisms active at the platelet surface . |
| 20 | This happened on several occasions , with the kisses and hugs becoming longer and more passionate as time went on . |
| 21 | Adam 's eyes were closed , in some state that looked colder and more complicated than sleep . |
| 22 | In comparison with accountants , bank managers , NHS doctors and estate agents , they were found to be as easy to talk to as bank managers and easier to talk to than all the others bar NHS doctors , to be easier to understand than accountants and estate agents , to be more efficient than accountants and estate agents , to be more hardworking than accountants , bank managers and estate agents , to be as dependable as bank managers and more dependable than accountants and estate agents , to be as up-to-date as accountants and more up-to-date than estate agents . |
| 23 | Although this procedure ( known as bonorum distractio ) was both fairer and more convenient than bonorum venditio , it had none the less been admitted only in exceptional cases under formulary procedure . |
| 24 | Medicine , while still based on plants , became more and more sophisticated as knowledge accumulated , especially with the introduction of printing , which meant that information could be passed on exactly , instead of inaccurately , by hearsay , and thus provided a bigger and bigger base from which to work . |
| 25 | A rare vagrant from C Asia , larger , darker and more pigeon-like than Turtle Dove , with more heavily spotted , richer chestnut upperparts , darker underparts and blue-grey instead of white neck patch . |
| 26 | They seem to be experiments in animal design that did not work efficiently enough to survive in the competition that became more and more intense as time passed and animal life proliferated . |
| 27 | The rivermen were finding it hard ; the scramble for work was becoming more and more intense as family debts grew and many valued and treasured items found their way into the local pawnshops . |
| 28 | 1972 : Mesarovic & Pestel 1976 ) , actually becomes cheaper and more plentiful as technology finds and creates new resources and uses existing ones more efficiently . |
| 29 | First we can be aware of the unnecessary layers of paper , cardboard and plastic used to make products larger and more glamorous than life , and avoid them . |
| 30 | CSC is much cheaper and more flexible than video conferencing , which requires special rooms and expensive phone lines . |