Example sentences of "more [adj] than [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also suggests that this is vital if traders are to be convinced that trading across frontiers is no more strange than doing business with the shopkeeper next door . |
| 2 | The other argument says that we are a higher and more socialised form of beast and that our urges are informed by something more subtle than base instinct . |
| 3 | As the foil plating was thicker it may have been found more durable than mercury plating . |
| 4 | It is rounder and more pungent than soya sauce . |
| 5 | And it is an undisputed fact at Manchester City that Dutchman Michael Vonk , signed this year , is more coherent than Scouse manager Peter Reid . |
| 6 | In no area are these pressures more acute than vehicle design . |
| 7 | Hence they are more liquid than money market deposits and so carry a lower interest rate . |
| 8 | These values show us that , in the first example above , magnesium oxide is more stable than carbon dioxide . |
| 9 | There are a number of sports that are not supported by public funding and they include angling and archery , which are more popular than rugby league . |
| 10 | Stress alone can be more harmful than cigarette smoking and has been proven to operate indirectly against the fetus because of the woman 's behaviour under stress . |
| 11 | The business league proves more interesting than sport Outlook . |
| 12 | Here the drive seems more claustrophobic than TV memory recalls . |
| 13 | And if all else failed it would probably be an effective , if unsubtle way of letting his wife know that something rather more serious than Marriage Guidance was required to get them out of their marital difficulties . |
| 14 | Much more reactive than carbon monoxide . |
| 15 | Termites , more nutritious than rump steak ! |
| 16 | This semi-permanent cultivation is now more widespread than slash-and-bum shifting cultivation and has increased as nomadic groups have become more sedentary and integration of crops and livestock has occurred . |
| 17 | Some students , nevertheless , prefer this type of accommodation because it is often more homely than college hall . |
| 18 | On 22 July , the Water Authority had admitted for the first time that aluminium had been involved by placing a small advertisement in the local press saying ‘ that the water was no more acidic than lemon juice ’ . |
| 19 | This is far more effective than brush application . |
| 20 | Chest x ray screening , though more costly , is more effective than skin testing . |
| 21 | Other contributors say that informal social restraints on drinking are more effective than government control , advertising does not induce excessive drinking , and random breath testing might reduce drink-driving . |
| 22 | Overall , however , there was a trend for prednisolone to be more effective than fluticasone propionate . |
| 23 | Only as late as 1918 was it established — by a woman doctor — that the juice of lemons is more than twice as rich in anti-scorbutic vitamins as that of the lime , for long thought to be as or more effective than lemon juice in the prevention of scurvy . |
| 24 | It is interesting to observe that Kuo found that the slide presentation of visual material was more effective than television presentation of the same material . |
| 25 | Yes that does n't exclude but includes all of that , but at the same time although everybody that 's going to read it may not understand the intricacies of it all as professionals we 're giving more than a passing nod , so that was something else , er er and something more involved than English teacher than making them jump through loops |
| 26 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 27 | CFCs are also powerful greenhouse gases , each molecule being 10,000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide . |
| 28 | This categorisation also describes a rising scale of technical complexity , ie. process production is more complex than mass production , which is more complex than unit production . |
| 29 | The effects are more severe than oxygen depletion and may result in prolonged poor health in your fish . |
| 30 | Language development is more important than vocabulary building and offering dauntingly-high standards of written and spoken language . |