Example sentences of "more [adj] [subord] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much nicer and far more refreshing than the bland oiliness of avocado and prawns , a combination which still baffles me . |
| 2 | But if it is short , it is also dynamic and various , altogether more refreshing than the endless dunes of the Landes , north of the Adour . |
| 3 | Well i it were like a proper , er i in fact , they were more professional than a proper salon . |
| 4 | After much fretting and threats of legal action , the RFU had little choice but to back down — and endorse a strip that is if anything , more garish than the last effort . |
| 5 | I had always suspected him of being rather more solid than the average person and this collision provided complete confirmation . |
| 6 | There were only two movements , and the first was a lot more striking than the second , which tended to lose energy with time-filling sequences . |
| 7 | The Association proved to be more resilient than the defunct N.D.D.S. although it led a precarious existence for a number of years before becoming established . |
| 8 | True , they have feeble strength and toughness , but with three wounds they are more resilient than the same frontage of Goblins or Orcs . |
| 9 | But it has never been shown that induction is logically more respectable than a formalized argument from analogy , indeed that induction from some particulars leading to deduction of others is anything else but a roundabout argument from analogy . |
| 10 | The internal opposition to Dr Banda 's rule has become more brazen since a critical pastoral letter signed by Malawi 's seven Catholic bishops was read out in every Catholic church last month . |
| 11 | On the contrary , it was more cohesive because the mixed battalion system overcame the divisive effects of the strong corporatist sense developed by units composed only of one kind of soldier . |
| 12 | But , the lessons are more subtle than the direct borrowing of the approach and importing it into different service sectors . |
| 13 | Never one to avoid controversy , millionaire screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has come up with a scenario even more controversial than the lesbian ice-pick outrage of Basic Instinct . |
| 14 | The Reverend is no more dated than the stereotypical class snob Colonel Mustard or the proverbial scarlet woman , Miss Scarlet . |
| 15 | The young members of the company were more exhausted than the old . |
| 16 | This exercise is also designed to strengthen your hands and arms but is more advanced than the last one . |
| 17 | It was more emphatic than the 5-1 win on Thursday because little more than two hours after the start England had already achieved a 4-0 winning lead . |
| 18 | WHEN a teenager talks about popping in to the travel agents , parents should realise they may be intending to buy something more mind-bending than a cheap break . |
| 19 | Nor is it sensible to argue , as the Treasury has , that a European system of central banks in charge of a single currency might prove more inflationary than a fixed exchange rate system where each monetary authority competed to provide a stable benchmark of value . |
| 20 | Few things will the English youth find in after-life more profitable than the right use of the aforesaid letter . |
| 21 | But the farm would be much more profitable if the British were n't so reluctant to eat goat meat . |
| 22 | More palatable to cosmologists would be the possibility that the gas in groups and clusters has become more concentrated than the dark matter . |
| 23 | One of a long list of commandments , much more extensive than the original ten , that had circumscribed the exploits of Preston 's youth . |
| 24 | It makes sense that the ineffable languor of Prince is infinitely more fruitious than a thousand sinewy Age of Chance slogans . |
| 25 | The old campaigner 's sense of what was honourable in such matters was more acute than the three sons of George III who , in the words of the author of the tract The Royal Criterion ( 1814 ) ‘ resorted to every mode of raising money without a scruple as to the means . ’ |
| 26 | The Spanish railway ‘ crisis ’ was considerably more acute than the British , reflecting the interconnected factors of the lag in forming a political response to economic crisis , and the forces unleashed by Spain 's transition to democracy . |
| 27 | The problem is more acute if the overall demand for money is inelastic and is subject to fluctuations . |
| 28 | Though more specific than the earlier English example , they are not unambiguous . |
| 29 | Some of these horror weapons are more insidious than the nuclear ones . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ All the children in the orphanages are very disadvantaged but these two are more disadvantaged than the other inmates , ’ said Mr Nath . |