Example sentences of "more [adj] than [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Troy did , however , use one phrase that went a long way to describe the film 's great success , for he spoke of how it illustrated that ‘ an honest documentation of familiar American actualities becomes in a Hollywood film more absorbing than intrigue in Monte Carlo or pig-sticking in Bengal ’ . |
| 2 | This suggests that men are more cruel than women towards cats , but such an interpretation assumes that cats can distinguish between deliberate cruelty and pain inflicted for the animals ' own good . |
| 3 | Wine is more profitable than bicycles in this part of France . |
| 4 | The expert 's liability in tort can never be more extensive than liability under any related contract , and whether the expert will be liable at all will always depend on the particular context and purpose of the particular statement . |
| 5 | Lin finds North America more receptive than Britain to unusual concert repertoire . |
| 6 | Dr Dan Benor , who is setting up a doctor/healer network , finds , perhaps surprisingly , that people in Britain are far more receptive than people in America to exploring this innovative approach . |
| 7 | If anything , the sight of a half-naked Niall out of the water was even more devastating than Niall in it , Lindsey decided , tearing her gaze with difficulty from the stunning perfection of his body in the briefest of black swimming trunks . |
| 8 | I can think of nothing more awful than England for us . |
| 9 | If Protestantism was more Conducive than Catholicism to the expansion of science , one would expect this to manifest itself in a greater receptivity toward new and controversial ideas . |
| 10 | Cards from cats are more popular than cards from dogs . |
| 11 | Opinion poll results showed that he was consistently more popular than Bolger with the electorate , and many commentators expected him to launch a challenge for the party leadership . |
| 12 | TEACHERS are obviously more popular than politicians despite Kenneth Clarke 's best efforts to prove otherwise . |
| 13 | The Virgin has always been more popular than Christ in the New World ; indeed in the sixteenth century certain churchmen had argued that while the East was the domain of Christ , the newly discovered West was that of his mother . |
| 14 | At the same time , kin ties remained a structured link which offered the potential for mutual support , and this was probably more reliable than ties between non-kin and more acceptable than those bureaucratic forms of public support available in the period . |
| 15 | This is because of the great importance of infant mortality , the weightiest component of life expectancy and general mortality in developing countries , and also because a large body of observations concerning the effects are available not only from developed but also from developing countries and which are much more reliable than data on fetal mortality . |
| 16 | Not only were robots , at the time of the study , uneconomic to use on routine unskilled work , but they were more reliable than humans in performing skilled tasks . |
| 17 | Although this assumption is very likely to be wrong it is still a usable forecast in the sense that it may be no more wrong than forecasts of change that get it wrong . |
| 18 | Some sites were clearly more dependent than others upon their own agricultural production , which encourages the belief that many small towns at the bottom end of the urban scale did not develop much in size or functional complexity beyond their large-village counterparts . |
| 19 | Women do not have equal access to them because of their location in the labour market and consequently are more dependent than men on the less generous statutory minimum payments . |
| 20 | Until recently , European countries have been far more willing than America for the public sector to pay much of the cost for cleaning up . |
| 21 | To me they 're some of the most exciting things of Picasso 's , more exciting than things like Guernica . |
| 22 | Wood 's figures of 8–0-20–0 tell their story , but he was more wayward than Jeh in line and length . |
| 23 | Are women more prone than men to finding fault ? |
| 24 | In a curious way , women are probably more prone than men to changes of mood , but are more able to manipulate them . |
| 25 | Eighteenth-century novelists , generally speaking , were no more interested than architects in the buildings that survived from earlier periods ; some , indeed , were actively contemptuous of them . |
| 26 | They are ultimately more instructive than stories of nonagenarians who scale Everest or even ( enjoyable though they are ) of Lord Denning 's battles with the government from his seat in the House of Lords . |
| 27 | Naville is more cautious than Mallet in the conclusions he draws from his analysis about the extent of conflict with management likely to be brought about as a result of extensive use of such automated technology . |
| 28 | On this theory some potencies would contain more shape-specific molecules than others and some would contain longer chain polymers than others , so some potencies might be expected to be more efficacious than others in treatment . |
| 29 | Knighton , McColl and Elliott all get a statistical raw deal , he insists , but none is more wronged than bottom of the table Len Ashurst . |
| 30 | These are culpable acts , often regarded as being more serious than thefts of property . |