Example sentences of "more than [det] other [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps more than any other man in Canada , he has put poetry on the map — at the centre , indeed ; and fought and argued and worked demoniacally to preserve it there . |
| 2 | The Rev. Thomas Arnold , founder of the Oral School for the Deaf at Northampton in 1868 after trying out the system with only a limited success with a special class at the Yorkshire Institution where that great advocate of sign language , Charles Baker , was Principal , did probably more than any other person to establish the oral system in Britain with the fine academic record of his school . |
| 3 | Perhaps more than any other person , she opened the public relations field in Britain to women . |
| 4 | A judge , however , perhaps more than any other person , is accustomed to making and announcing his decisions in public . |
| 5 | More than any other person Paracelsus prevented the consolidation of the influence of classical medicine and the imposition of galenic orthodoxy by the powerful renaissance establishment . |
| 6 | A lively and energetic character , enjoying publicity and recognized by his contemporaries as a ‘ personality ’ , Eckersley did more than any other person to lay the technical foundation of broadcasting in Britain . |
| 7 | Dalgliesh respected him more than any other pathologist with whom he had worked . |
| 8 | More than any other film , It Happened One Night had pointed the way forward , but , greatly to the surprise of many critics , problem films kept on appearing . |
| 9 | More than any other wartime figure he addressed himself to the conscience of middle-class radicalism , arguing that the only worthwhile victory possible was one based on the common ownership of the means of production and a moral revolution in which selfishness and the profit motive would give way to an ethic of service to the community . |
| 10 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |
| 11 | It is the nursing staff more than any other category of employee who will bear the burden of the consequences of fire . |
| 12 | ‘ No more than any other creed , ’ came the cynical answer . |
| 13 | Lucidas , I suppose , more than any other poem of Milton 's , and indeed I suppose more than any other poem in English , Lucidas shows us that there does n't have to be a conflict between personal involvement and formal rhetoric . |
| 14 | Lucidas , I suppose , more than any other poem of Milton 's , and indeed I suppose more than any other poem in English , Lucidas shows us that there does n't have to be a conflict between personal involvement and formal rhetoric . |
| 15 | Radio fluctuated thereafter more than any other medium . |
| 16 | Keith insists that 's no more than any other home the same size , but he 's hoping the new buyer will care as much about the property as about the world 's threatened rain forests . |
| 17 | Aggregation has been studied in vitro more than any other platelet activity because of the development of a simple photometric method for its measurement ( Born , 1962 ) . |
| 18 | He said before leaving : ‘ They 've had fall outs , but no more than any other marriage . ’ |
| 19 | In the near future , Germany is poised to grow dramatically , profiting more than any other country from the combined boom of 1993 and the new markets to the East . |
| 20 | Britain has the highest chocolate consumption in the world , far more than any other country . |
| 21 | Sweden currently produces half its electricity requirements through nuclear power — more than any other country in the world . |
| 22 | ’ More than any other writer or performer , it was Robinson who affirmed Motown as a major pop force to be reckoned with . |
| 23 | This is indeed unfortunate , for Williamson , perhaps more than any other writer , accurately described the experience of the common man in the trenches and the lingering and traumatic effects it had on the survivors of the experience . |
| 24 | I do n't see how it can affect Rothmans any more than any other firm . ’ |
| 25 | MORE than any other scandal in recent years , Iran-contra was posited on patriotism . |
| 26 | More than any other issue this operation reveals the extent of the antiracists ' conceptual trading with the racists and the results of embracing their culturalist assumptions . |
| 27 | The financial services community knows more than any other sector of British business which consultants really have that functional specialisation in executive search and will employ them accordingly . |
| 28 | It was for precisely this reason that Russia , which had far more than any other State to fear from strong government and an active foreign policy in Sweden , did everything in its power to uphold that constitution ( see p. 266 ) . |
| 29 | This is a relatively small proportion , but investment fluctuates more than any other component of national income and these fluctuations generate changes in income through the multiplier . |
| 30 | MORE THAN any other county , Derbyshire seems to have the sharpest contrasts between urban and rural surroundings . |