Example sentences of "more [adj] than [art] [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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The sand i's solid , more solid than the earth you see ? |
| 7 | There might well be a guard at its door also , but , it was to be hoped , no more alert than the rest . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On the other hand , what older people have in common is in some ways more striking than the class differences between them . |
| 11 | Arguments such as this are in principle more respectable than the argument based on sheer , naked incredulity . |
| 12 | Whatever it was on the bottom of the loch it was no more strange than the atmosphere on that boat . |
| 13 | Matilda , who had been listening closely , said , ‘ But daddy , that 's even more dishonest than the sawdust . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It may be more hesitant than the House of Representatives about extending the death penalty , for instance for drug-dealing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Before leaving the city for ever , I came across a philosopher , Jean-Jacques Rousseau , even more noted than the family of my accursed Master . |
| 19 | We have already mentioned two factors that make the entire structure more progressive than an examination of income tax alone would suggest . |
| 20 | And probably he would have found the Whistler more understandable than the pop star whose gyrations would surely have convinced him that man was in the grip of his final , manic St Vitus 's dance . |
| 21 | The Germans and the British were both more used than the French to co-operating closely with the USA and responded positively to NASA 's 1969 invitation to work on its Space-Lab programme , linked to the space shuttle concept , which succeeded the Apollo moon-landings . |
| 22 | I live overseas , in an area devoid of music shops stocking anything more advanced than a plectrum . |
| 23 | Although economically underdeveloped by modern standards , they were more advanced than the rest of the new kingdom ( except Vojvodina ) , and especially in comparison with mountainous Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina , and with southern Serbia , including Kosovo and Macedonia . |
| 24 | A good example of this imbalance can be seen in psycholinguistics , where the study of language comprehension , being more experimental , is markedly more advanced than the study of language production , in which the investigator has less control over what happens . |
| 25 | One stage more advanced than the pantograph , although still lacking the sophistication of a magnetic or acoustic digitiser , is the pressure sensitive digitiser . |
| 26 | One stage more advanced than the pantograph , although still lacking the sophistication of a magnetic or acoustic digitiser , is the pressure sensitive digitiser . |
| 27 | Over the crossing , a cupola raised on a drum is more usual than a tower , particularly in Lombardy and Tuscany . |
| 28 | RON ATKINSON had cause to offer belated seasonal goodwill to his fellow men last night as Aston Villa re-asserted their Championship challenge with a victory more emphatic than the margin of a Dean Saunders penalty suggests . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | Because they had to run their local affairs , English colonies were quite different from those the Spanish , the Portuguese , the Dutch , and the French established between 1500 and 1650 , and at the time all the other European empires looked more durable than the English . |