Example sentences of "more [adv] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A semi-double bloom , of which there are a great many , is somewhere between , but tending more towards ‘ single ’ than ‘ double ’ so that , although there may be as many as 15 petals , the flower opens more loosely than a double and reveals the anthers more readily . |
| 2 | The occasional or once-in-a-while reward ( intermittent reinforcement ) will consolidate an established bad habit more effectively than a reward given every time . |
| 3 | If a client has successfully carried out a difficult homework task the group can reinforce this success more powerfully than a therapist alone . |
| 4 | Behind him , on the shelves of his dark recess , were large brown bottles criss-crossed with gold and rows of foolish otto-of-roses bottles , cut and gilt , but with hardly more inside than a thermometer . |
| 5 | Two-piece clothing is quite useful for women as the microphone and battery can be fixed and concealed in it more easily than a dress . |
| 6 | Indeed Shanghold et al ( 1985 ) believe : ‘ pregnancy is hard work , and a woman who is fit can do the work of pregnancy more easily than a woman who is not fit ’ . |
| 7 | It should however be noted that by virtue of the automatic discharge from a first bankruptcy after three years irrespective of the debtor 's conduct ( short of criminal offence ) , an individual debtor will be treated far more leniently than a company director guilty of wrongful trading , who can be disqualified for up to 15 years . |
| 8 | Now one of the things that sex one of the consequences of sex is that a population which reproduces sexually can evolve more rapidly than a population erm which reproduces asexually . |
| 9 | ( As we explained in Chapter 6 , this is because a word which is highly predictable from the syntactic and semantic context can be detected more quickly than a word which is less predictable . ) |
| 10 | She was something more than a housekeeper , more also than a nurse . |
| 11 | Nothing could impress the Jews of Egypt more favourably than a letter by Judas Maccabaeus in person to the very respected Jewish-Egyptian writer Aristobulus , who will recur in our story . |
| 12 | He found that these adopted children still developed schizophrenia more often than a comparison group of adopted children whose biological mothers had no known record of mental illness ( Rosenthal , 1968 ) . |
| 13 | Numbers applying for entry in September 1992 have increased even more sharply than a year ago and we currently anticipate a further large increase in first year entrants . |
| 14 | The traffic was no more now than a hum , an occasional pinprick of light edging along Bayswater Road and Park Lane . |
| 15 | ‘ The number of members has , over the last few days and weeks , dropped more dramatically than a barometer before an impending typhoon . ’ |
| 16 | The ontological idealist , given his general metaphysical premisses , can at least argue that what we regard as " physical bodies " are really no extra-spiritual entities , for all entities are either spiritual or are explicable in terms of attributes of such entities , and although his position gives rise to all kinds of difficulties , he can , on the whole , present his case a good deal more consistently than a dualist can . |
| 17 | In particular , Lubow , Rifkin , and Alek ( 1976 ) themselves have shown that animals pre-exposed in one environment and tested in another can learn more readily than a control group exposed neither to the stimuli nor to the test apparatus . |
| 18 | A man surrounded by colleagues of exceptional talent , who treated him with a uniquely loving respect , whom he in turn loved more dearly than a family . |