Example sentences of "more [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " 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 | The critics ' favourite accusation that Neverland looks like a theme park is fair , though hardly a criticism — most children and adults enjoy Disneyland , and the movie is no more garish than The Wizard of Oz , a great children 's film which has been rendered critically respectable by age . |
| 3 | Well of course it 's rather more solid than the atom is . |
| 4 | She stands on the step looking more solid than the door . |
| 5 | We could lie propped up against wide pillows edged with lace , the legs of the bed rooted in a froth of cow parsley , convolvulus thrusting through the wrought-iron bedstead , the blue sky and the clouds more solid than the rows of houses underneath . |
| 6 | But it has also been suggested that the animal 's heart could not have pumped enough blood to nourish a head any larger , or one that was in fact more solid than the light , airy structure of the skull of many known species . |
| 7 | The sand i's solid , more solid than the earth you see ? |
| 8 | There might well be a guard at its door also , but , it was to be hoped , no more alert than the rest . |
| 9 | Senior did once turn the ball into the net but David Elleray was more alert than the referee of England 's 1986 World Cup tie against Argentina and had noticed the hand of a mere mortal . |
| 10 | More striking than the provision of popular entertainment for profit was the remarkable degree to which the landed interest , the liberal professions , and even sections of the business community itself excluded commercial forces from sport . |
| 11 | However the similarities are more striking than the differences . |
| 12 | The similarities between the two groups of practices in the proportion going to private clinics in each individual specialty ( table VI ) were much more striking than the differences . |
| 13 | The canes are far more striking than the flowers . |
| 14 | On the other hand , what older people have in common is in some ways more striking than the class differences between them . |
| 15 | He was all the more striking because the boast that he ran his papers just to make money contrasted strongly with the more complex motives , combining profit with politics , that were still typical of the proprietors of the early 1960s . |
| 16 | Are we to say that God 's assurance is no more assured than the fluctuations of our feelings ? |
| 17 | Arguments such as this are in principle more respectable than the argument based on sheer , naked incredulity . |
| 18 | All the more strange that the advocates of a return to Victorian values should chide trade unions for refusing to forgo or minimise pay rises in order to create more jobs or to contain inflation . |
| 19 | Whatever it was on the bottom of the loch it was no more strange than the atmosphere on that boat . |
| 20 | Matilda , who had been listening closely , said , ‘ But daddy , that 's even more dishonest than the sawdust . |
| 21 | Mr Prokhorov said that the answer to the contradiction between political renewal and economic crisis lay in Marxism , which ‘ teaches us that the superstructure is more mobile than the base , and that it is the first to react to a change of conditions . ’ |
| 22 | The promotional activities of dealers and certain critics became more brazen as the decade proceeded . |
| 23 | Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published . |
| 24 | It may be more hesitant than the House of Representatives about extending the death penalty , for instance for drug-dealing . |
| 25 | The Whigs , on the whole , were much more cohesive than the Tories , but even here we can make a distinction between Junto Whigs , Court Whigs and Country Whigs . |
| 26 | Overall the system appeared to be even more cost-effective than the estimates , with a pay-back period of 2.6 years . |
| 27 | Further , what could be more homogenous than the creations of C. P. Snow ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And second , perhaps even more subtle than the dangers of making misjudgements about the early ulema and hierarchy under the influence of the distinctive character of the later hierarchy , one must avoid the danger of being led by the nature of the biographies themselves to dehumanize the ulema , a danger present in all the sources hut perhaps particularly in Ata'i . |
| 30 | The waters above the shelf are warmer , lighter , and more turbulent than the depths that lie beyond , and hence are quite different in character and in the life they support . |