Example sentences of "more [adj] than [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the most important thing about Lord Robertson was that in this particular case he was even more prejudiced than Lord Grant , although in the light of all that had recently occurred , with far less excuse . |
| 2 | More controversial than Woody Allen on a shopping spree in children 's world . |
| 3 | ‘ You sound more high-Tory than Lord Salisbury , sir ! |
| 4 | This is where he is ultimately more admirable than Princess Anne . |
| 5 | With television — unless one lived near a frontier — there was no choice ; with radio , there was choice , nationwide : the three ‘ peripheral ’ radio stations , Europe 1 , RTL , RMC were more popular than ORTF radio stations . |
| 6 | In 1979 Labour decisively lost the election , although Mr Callaghan was more popular than Mrs Thatcher ( and his party ) . |
| 7 | They hired him after research proved he was more popular than Rik Mayall and Rowan Atkinson among the young drinkers they were targeting He 's already appeared in US adverts for Shell Oil , Ford and Coors beer , but says of the Red Rock series : ‘ This is a different kind of thing because it 's comedy and fun . |
| 8 | The trouble is that Mr Balladur has become unforgivably more popular than Mr Chirac . |
| 9 | The religious outlook of the crusaders was more complex and more elusive than Pope Urban 's . |
| 10 | At MGM Lorna Lewis had been given the keyword ‘ kittenish ’ to help focus her identity — cute , blonde and comic , more down-to-earth than Grace Kelly , less neurotic than Monroe but sexier than Doris Day . |
| 11 | Though some ministers are plainly more embarrassed than Mrs Thatcher appeared to be , the Government believes that the opposition has produced no serious alternatives to its blunt deterrent policy . |
| 12 | Although Read 's will was far more detailed than Sir Edmond 's , the circumstances surrounding its execution are rather more obscure ; certainly little notice appears to have been taken of the complicated procedure for appointment . |
| 13 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 14 | Somewhere a little more interesting than Wimbledon Hill . |
| 15 | And such adventure was far more interesting than Kent Nagano 's mundane performance of Prokofiev 's Sixth Symphony . |
| 16 | Now I know what you 're thinking , but I mean to drink ; something more appealing to women than the Carlsberg Special Brew brigade , something more interesting than Piesporter Michelsberg . |
| 17 | Gradually a long lie on a Saturday comes to mean rising at 5 p.m. in time for the Brookside omnibus , your rucksack quietly grows grey mouldy bits at the back of a dark cupboard , and The Face seems more interesting than Tom Weir 's ‘ My Month ’ . |
| 18 | His idea of the freedom East Europeans can safely be allowed is far more generous than Brezhnev s , let alone Stalin 's . |
| 19 | It was n't the sort of thing he would have put on the wall next to his bed but it was a lot more acceptable than Mr Pilkington in a black cowl . |
| 20 | Moreover , although the Gothic novel was largely escapist , its plebeian characters tended to be much more conspicuous than Jane Austen 's servants , and to have a distinct character of their own . |
| 21 | Smith , by contrast , appears almost drab ; greyer than John Major , fatter than Ken Clarke , more smug than Chris Patten . |
| 22 | No one was more zealous than Mr Smith in supporting membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 23 | The backlash was more violent than de Gaulle expected . |
| 24 | Emerged out of the clouds at the Fenêtre to find it more crowded than Blackpool beach . |
| 25 | Oh no , the er , to , to maintain authenticity , the people in the band have to look as if they would looked in nineteen forty , which is why er Sally Edwards who 's the Vera Lynn look-alike er would be more authentic than Vera Lynn herself . |
| 26 | Problems caused by using fuel with too low an octane are considerably more real than Michael Fletcher ( Letters , 14 April , p 103 ) and many others appear to appreciate . |
| 27 | Superficially more democratic than Richard Steele 's definition of the poet as a ‘ very well-bred Man ’ , Wordsworth 's notion of the poet may seem even more relentlessly masculine and , in the loftiness of his conception of poetic genius , even more exclusive … |
| 28 | A yet greater Netherlander , Lassus — much more versatile than de Monte in his church music alone , to say nothing of the secular field , and a much stronger and more complex creative personality — served the dukes of Bavaria from 1556 till his death in 1594 . |
| 29 | ‘ Criminals far more vicious than Nicholas Dodman looked upon him as an easy target to provide an outlet for their criminal activities , ’ he said . |
| 30 | ‘ Criminals far more vicious than Nicholas Dodman looked upon him as an easy target to provide an outlet for their criminal activities , ’ he said . |