Example sentences of "more [adv] than [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But by now , the whole Lockerbie investigation was dogged by a sense of futility felt nowhere more keenly than at the Scottish Fatal Accident Inquiry which , just before Christmas 1990 , recessed for a month after hearing 150 witnesses in 46 days .
2 The river Trent has always flooded , and nowhere more so than on the levels between where its own waters and those of the Yorkshire Aire flow out into the Humber .
3 And all in all not a bad place for a romantic tête à tête , nowhere more so than at the Las Palmeras Apartments where , among the seclusion of the palm trees , you can relax in maximum tanning mode with the partner of your dreams .
4 Film can cruelly expose limitations , and nowhere more so than in the case of the gloomy Dane and the blue-eyed wonder .
5 The steady economic growth and the increasing level of wealth which it generated led to an expansion of commerce whose effects were visible throughout the whole of France , but nowhere more so than in the capital , making it more and more a commercial as well as a political centre .
6 The same people , however , demanded a high standard from public works and nowhere more so than in the domain of street lighting .
7 The two Education Acts of 1986 and 1988 brought about some revolutionary changes in education — nowhere more so than in the role of governing bodies .
8 Projects in Tilburg and in the Hague in the late 1970-s provided much practical experience , nowhere more so than in The Hague where deficient participation procedures angered shopkeepers who , fearful of trade falls through loss of car parking , tried to dig up the new cycle track .
9 We are in a decade when the timeless truth of John Wesley 's words is apparent , and nowhere more so than in the realm of church planting .
10 In a comparison carried out by the National Economic Development Council and the Manpower Services Commission ( 1984:85 ) it was said that the concern for a sound basic education is voiced strongly in all the three countries [ USA , Japan and the then Federal Republic of Germany ] as it is in the UK , but nowhere more so than in the US .
11 Nowhere more so than in the rape scene itself , which , in marked contrast to the humiliation of Lipstick , makes the men the object of spectacle , focusing on their behaviour , not Sarah 's suffering .
12 For unlike serf insurrection , slave rebellion was relatively uncommon — nowhere more so than in the United States — and never in the nineteenth century considered a very serious political threat .
13 The modern world is juxtaposed against and involved with a world very definitely presented in terms of primitive rite — nowhere more clearly than in the ritual expiation of the curse .
14 Christianity is such a religion : God is worshipped through Christ , the male principle , and the affirmation of light is found nowhere more clearly than in the opening chapter of St John 's gospel , which includes the verses :
15 This is seen nowhere more clearly than in the Latin American Communist parties which ’ prefer systematically an alliance with a strong personality ( not to speak of a strongman ) rather than with an organised political party which could propose or , worse , impose independent tactics and a different and permanent leadership upon the whole alliance' ( Caballero : 1986 , p. 109 ) .
16 This may help us to understand why it is that the family was never more expertly advised , psychoanalysed and researched , yet never has it fallen apart more dramatically than in the last generation .
17 Chaucer makes this point on more than one occasion , nowhere more emphatically than at the end of the Canterbury Tales , after the Parson 's Tale , where he " revokes " in his " retractions " " " my translacions and endytinges of worldly vanitees " " ( endytinges : compositions ) including " " the tales of Caunterbury , thilke that sownen into synne " " ( sownen into synne : " resonate with sin " ) ( X : 1084 – 5 ) .
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