Example sentences of "more [adj] than [noun] [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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 13 | The business league proves more interesting than sport Outlook . |
| 14 | Here the drive seems more claustrophobic than TV memory recalls . |
| 15 | A Hannoverian duke became our own George I. This historical link does n't mean Hannover is any more British than Buck House is German , but then nobody visits Hannover for cucumber sandwiches . |
| 16 | Emerged out of the clouds at the Fenêtre to find it more crowded than Blackpool beach . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Much more reactive than carbon monoxide . |
| 19 | Termites , more nutritious than rump steak ! |
| 20 | By many indicators Knowsley is as deprived as Hackney and both Knowsley and Cleveland are more deprived than Waltham Forest . |
| 21 | Smaller and more rufous than Calandra Lark , with much smaller black neck patches . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Flight even more ponderous than Herring Gull , and voice similar but deeper and more raucous , with a deep goblin-like chuckle in nesting territory . |
| 24 | Some students , nevertheless , prefer this type of accommodation because it is often more homely than college hall . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | This is far more effective than brush application . |
| 27 | Chest x ray screening , though more costly , is more effective than skin testing . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Overall , however , there was a trend for prednisolone to be more effective than fluticasone propionate . |
| 30 | 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 . |