Example sentences of "more [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both are more refreshing than a toner — and more effective methods of removing the last traces of make-up and oil . |
| 2 | Mr Mellor has never been given proper credit for showing sufficient resolution during the passage of the Broadcasting Bill to persuade his colleagues that ITV deserved to have its future determined by something more subtle than a contest to see who could stuff the most pound notes into a brown envelope earmarked for the Treasury . |
| 3 | I live overseas , in an area devoid of music shops stocking anything more advanced than a plectrum . |
| 4 | Over the crossing , a cupola raised on a drum is more usual than a tower , particularly in Lombardy and Tuscany . |
| 5 | Among the Nez Perce and Crow people , pieces of horn were glued together and bound with sinew to create a bow ‘ stronger , tougher , more elastic , and more durable than a bow of any other materials ’ . |
| 6 | And even then it took a few more strangled moments before she could force her numbed brain to function with anything more coherent than a scream of anguish . |
| 7 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 8 | it is more private than a hearing in the civil courts — the press and public are not entitled to be present |
| 9 | When she turned , there was no one , but she hurried on , though she no longer knew what she should do , what she should tell her sister , if she should report this request for an assignation somewhere more secret than a church , more private than a byre . |
| 10 | As far as lab work went , I always felt very intimidated because I 'd never touched anything more technical than a hairdryer , and all these boys around me were confidently plugging in their oscilloscopes , because I mean , I suppose they had their train sets and that sort of thing , and I was very scared to plug things in , in case they blew up . |
| 11 | Not that she was admitting to anything more definite than a quiver of tingling excitement every time he came near her , of course . |
| 12 | Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out . |
| 13 | The love-sick dog went completely off his food , finding his loveable lump more appetising than a bowl of doggy chunks in gravy and soon he was reduced to skin and bone , a mere shadow of the beast his family had grown to know and love . |
| 14 | This kind of component is much smaller and more reliable than a valve , which was the earliest form of electronic switch . |
| 15 | Ah , no , I mean cos violence and drugs is more harmful than a load of girls , you know , doing stupid things on s street corner . |
| 16 | For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones . |
| 17 | For one awful moment she feared he would strike her ; instead he looked down at her , his contempt far more painful than a blow . |
| 18 | It was no more painful than a ring through a punk 's nose . |
| 19 | We believe that it would be more sensible if a proportion of the compensation would be met by people like pension fund managers if for no other reason that it would encourage them to er keep their own house in order erm and you know it 's not a bad er principle to operate in these areas . |
| 20 | A spokesman said : ‘ There are ways of calming an aggressive drinker more acceptable than a head butt or kick between the legs . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ What could be more manly than a man holding a woman in his arms ? ’ |
| 22 | The warranties on a sale of a business are usually more limited than a sale of shares because taxation and other undisclosed liabilities remain with the offeree and do not pass with the business ( unless otherwise agreed ) . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's so much more real than a gas boiler . |
| 24 | ‘ The Disabled ’ is a non-disabled construction , a representational framework no more real than a hologram but which has to contain two properties if it is to have any cathartic meaning for society . |
| 25 | A drop in voltage can be more serious than a power cut . |
| 26 | To close , I should like to quote from a source that especially some of us find more authoritative than a business man . |
| 27 | No one is more vicious than a person who has something to hide , so this made their strange behaviour more understandable to Jane . |
| 28 | An upholstered stool would be much more appropriate than a coffee-table for this attractive and scholarly volume . |
| 29 | If the money falls in law to be repaid , a direct order for its repayment is more appropriate than a declaration that it should repay it or an order setting aside a refusal to be repaid . |
| 30 | This proved too ambitious ; the Twenty-Second Session favoured separate texts for civil and for criminal matters , and a subsequent Expert Group , meeting in New Delhi in 1982 , decided that a model bilateral agreement in each of these areas was more appropriate than a draft convention . |