Example sentences of "more [adj] [noun sg] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More coiled steel than living — a poised |
| 2 | The knowledge gap between doctor and patient is not greater than that between lawyer and client — indeed there is probably much more do-it-yourself medicine than law — but the gap is less resented in medicine . |
| 3 | ‘ Is not the heat of a warm room conveyed through the vacuum by the vibrations of a much more subtle medium than air which after the air was drawn out remained in the vacuum ? |
| 4 | Provocation is the basic process of lateral thinking which is a much more specific term than creativity for the changing of concept and perceptions . |
| 5 | Few things earned more pleasant congratulation than abstinence : " No thank you , " to a second chocolate , and Maman 's face lighted gently as she snapped the lid back on the choc box before Nicandra could change her mind . |
| 6 | Heading downstream , he saw a pool in front of him , more liquid mud than water . |
| 7 | The hectic marriage alliances which he , in common with most twelfth-century potentates , engaged in showed a recognition that marriage was a more reliable weapon than warfare in realizing large ambitions . |
| 8 | Of all the possibilities of interventive reproduction , none has been the subject of more public opposition than surrogacy . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman produced a more entertaining account than life itself — and given that life has been fairly entertaining over the past year , that is quite an achievement . |
| 10 | This is a more economical service than Airmail but delivery time is longer — normally within 2 weeks in Europe and up to 12 weeks outside of Europe . |
| 11 | significant — this is usually thought of as a slightly more rigorous test than material . |
| 12 | That phrase is read narrowly to convict the accused of handling rather than theft , handling being a more serious offence than theft . |
| 13 | Shelton points out that handling is a more serious offence than theft and has a maximum of 14 years ' imprisonment . |
| 14 | He considers ( 1975 : xx ) ‘ predatory street crime to be a far more serious matter than consumer fraud , anti-trust violations etc … because predatory crime … makes difficult or impossible the maintenance of meaningful human communities ’ . |
| 15 | The sheer volume of the many assessments externally required by the Act and now under design by SEAC runs the danger of forcing the less confident teachers — indeed all of them in the first instance , as they ascend the steep learning curve — into ‘ rote teaching ’ , a much more dangerous activity than rote learning because it tends to shut down that sense of intellectual curiosity without which children are not really being taught . |
| 16 | The rule of course has in many senses a more restricted application than nuisance ; there must be an accumulation , and it must be of a substance likely to cause injury if it escapes , neither of which is essential to liability in nuisance . |
| 17 | Dinner is an even more depleted affair than breakfast . |
| 18 | In the meantime it was not a bad life — this small enclosed world , more hard work than glamour , with its private language , its unsociable hours . |
| 19 | Deforestation is , however , occurring at a much more rapid rate than afforestation . |
| 20 | This is a more objective discussion than progress monitoring and should concentrate on the problems the surveyor is encountering in his own contribution rather than the inherent problems of a particular job . |
| 21 | Semi-quantitative analyses of ET-1-IR in groups A and B showed similar magnitudes of epithelial-cell staining ; however , vascular-endothelial-cell staining was greater in group B. Both groups with CFA had significantly more epithelial-cell staining than group C patients ( fig 3 ) . |
| 22 | Experience gives More useful knowledge than impatience . |
| 23 | 3 , square-wave tests ( creep or stress-relaxation ) and dynamic sine-wave tests yield more useful information than sawtooth tests , although in principle the results from one type of test are comparable with those from the others . |
| 24 | ‘ Humour 's a more effective defence than violence , which ends up consuming or destroying you . |
| 25 | For prevention of death from colorectal cancer at younger ages , a more effective strategy than population screening would be to identify and target high-risk individuals , such as those with a family history of colorectal cancer . |
| 26 | Cold bothers some , such as the silver-leaf shrub Convolvulus cneorum , but winter wetness is a far more fearsome enemy than frost . |
| 27 | ‘ It was more good luck than judgement , ’ she admitted . |
| 28 | As Emerson and his family had a house on the beach in Guaruja and as , like all Brazilians , Emerson , his lovely wife Maria Helena and his whole family were extremely hospitable , that house became a natural venue for a bunch of cronies and hangers-on whom Emerson , with more good nature than judgement , would invite to stay with him . |
| 29 | Embarrassment , it seems clear , is a major concern of the British psyche , and the dreams the British dream , if opinion-polls are to be believed , tend to be about social embarrassment , with amorous fantasy playing only a disappointingly minor role ; and if that is to be taken in evidence , then it may be said to represent a more powerful obsession than sex . |
| 30 | Silage-making is a more complex operation than haymaking . |