Example sentences of "much more [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disc is therefore much more versatile than videotape for storing and playing back sound , moving pictures , still pictures , and all kinds of data . |
| 2 | But , to me , jazz was always , and still is , much more rebellious than rock'n'roll , especially now . |
| 3 | Much more reactive than carbon monoxide . |
| 4 | At all times , electors find PPBs or PEBs very much more useful than party leaflets . |
| 5 | He was being much more friendly than Father who had n't spoken a word to me all evening . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've had such a lovely time , ’ she said as Ethel fell on her in ecstasy , ‘ and Ethel 's lick is much more efficient than cleansing cream . ’ |
| 7 | Pop videos themselves are consistently reactionary in their sexual imagery ( and this is an aspect of the cooption of new pop to which I will return ) if only because they draw on visual conventions of masculinity and femininity ( taken from cinema history and television commercials ) that are much more coherent than pop 's adolescent ambiguities . |
| 8 | They are usually much more expensive than timber types , and also tend to be aesthetically unsuited to many older-style properties . |
| 9 | They said the light emitted was much more dangerous than sunlight . |
| 10 | I like to write , but I think it 's much more exhausting than sketching . ’ |
| 11 | These results suggest that underlying health is much more important than age in determining prognosis after hospital care with community-acquired pneumonia . |
| 12 | As in the case of genes , fecundity is much more important than longevity of particular copies . |
| 13 | I mean hearing from God is much more important than scotsport , is n't it ? |
| 14 | We believe the most likely explanation is that , over 2 years , physiological age is much more important than calendar age . |
| 15 | The role of the bus becomes much more important if rail services disappear and are to be replaced by bus services . |
| 16 | The evidence about other types of kin support in the past — whether within or across households — is much more fragmented than evidence about household composition . |
| 17 | The return of the former when realized on sale represents a capital gain , and if untaxed would be much more attractive than interest payments which would be taxed as part of income . |
| 18 | XLRs really are heaps better than jacks : the connections are much more positive while power losses in the cable are minimised . |
| 19 | Surprising though it may seem , fieldwork in a cultural context of which you already have intimate first-hand experience seems to be much more difficult than fieldwork which is approached from the naive viewpoint of a total stranger . |
| 20 | Handwriting recognition is much more difficult than OCR due to the variety of handwriting styles between writers . |
| 21 | It 's possible that the increased understanding that we now have of miocenia gravis will help us to understand more about diseases such as multiple sclerosis which are , unhappily , much more common than miocenia gravis . |
| 22 | After What seemed like a shattering day , I sat on the bus but this time the journey was much more jovial as relief sunk in . |
| 23 | One should , for example , mention guild socialism which was much more concerned than Fabianism about the problems of establishing a strong , centralized bureaucracy and which promoted a pluralist theory of the state . |
| 24 | Western postwar feminism is much more concerned than psychology with how class , as well as gender , structures subjectivity . |
| 25 | Television may be much more popular than radio , but radio plays still deserve their place amongst the airwaves , and they are worth listening to . |
| 26 | Since with rare exceptions gold was so much more valuable than silver it was generally preferred for fine jewellery ( Plate D ) . |
| 27 | New products for the UK market include the integrated accounting software package , Sterling +2 , which runs under MS-DOS and Windows and was launched in September 1992 ( CI No 2,015 ) — according to Goldman , it is ‘ selling like hot cakes ’ ; a new version of the high-end , high margin Sovereign offering for the mid-range market — although prices did not increase , total sales of the product rose 20% in real terms , which was important , Goldman said , as this market is much more valuable than Sterling 's ; and MoneyWise , which is targeted at the home and small business market and costs less than £50 . |
| 28 | If used with considerable restraint this can be a valuable facility : it would probably be much more valuable if Guide used an HSV ( also called HSB ) colour model rather than its current RGB model . |