Example sentences of "more [adj] [subord] the [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 | I had always suspected him of being rather more solid than the average person and this collision provided complete confirmation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But , the lessons are more subtle than the direct borrowing of the approach and importing it into different service sectors . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Reverend is no more dated than the stereotypical class snob Colonel Mustard or the proverbial scarlet woman , Miss Scarlet . |
| 9 | The young members of the company were more exhausted than the old . |
| 10 | Few things will the English youth find in after-life more profitable than the right use of the aforesaid letter . |
| 11 | But the farm would be much more profitable if the British were n't so reluctant to eat goat meat . |
| 12 | More palatable to cosmologists would be the possibility that the gas in groups and clusters has become more concentrated than the dark matter . |
| 13 | One of a long list of commandments , much more extensive than the original ten , that had circumscribed the exploits of Preston 's youth . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The problem is more acute if the overall demand for money is inelastic and is subject to fluctuations . |
| 16 | Some of these horror weapons are more insidious than the nuclear ones . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ All the children in the orphanages are very disadvantaged but these two are more disadvantaged than the other inmates , ’ said Mr Nath . |
| 18 | He was Raven Maize , a mysterious man with ‘ Together Forever ’ , a club hit in '89 , and far more soulful than the pristine work he offers at the moment : ‘ In those days I could record for nothing . |
| 19 | Benn 's patriotism knew no bounds when confronted by the assertion that the French were more conciliatory than the British . |
| 20 | This is made even more possible because the noisy environment impairs communication between people . |
| 21 | A slight smile quivered the ends of his mouth , and if one eye looked slightly more narrow than the other there was n't much obvious bruising . |
| 22 | His virginity , his half-shameful fear of her close , warm-smelling , overwhelming femaleness , his social insecurity , born in that small , terraced house near the river at Ely , where he had lived with his widowed mother , nurtured by the desperate contrivings , the small deceptions of respectable poverty , the deprivation that was so much more humiliating than the real poverty of the inner cities . |
| 23 | I can think of nothing more destructive than the Labour party 's proposals . |
| 24 | The new album , ‘ Hype ’ , is more guitar-based than The High 's debut which , forged as it was in the wake of Manchester 's nebulous ‘ baggy ’ explosion , suffered from rather inappropriate comparisons with the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays . |
| 25 | Clearly then the arousal condition has not impaired all forms of memory for the story , the arousing scenario itself appears to be more memorable than the non-arousing version . |
| 26 | Money was handed down from father to son ; it lost its merit as a token of worth ; the idle and nasty could be a great deal more rich than the hardworking and good . |
| 27 | There are still a few in New Zealand but numbers there are now very low , and the Belted variety is more popular than the standard black . |
| 28 | This species is more popular than the preceding species , probably because of its hardier nature . |
| 29 | Trimmed down from a much nastier pilot to the duelling clowns schtick , Minder became even more popular than the true grit series like Out and Fox it originally sought to follow . |
| 30 | The extent of the coverage is seen as more reliable than the scattered ground-based measurements , although other scientists have pointed out that atmospheric temperatures are not so relevant for surface life , and that the microwave readings can also be thrown out by water droplets and other atmospheric particles . |