Example sentences of "of more [noun] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Cray 's music has always shown the influence of more forms than the urban twelve-bar . |
| 2 | I am known all too well that it 's big rough galaxy out there , full of more surprises than the human imagination can conceive of . |
| 3 | A serious extension of the simple analysis presented in the previous paragraph would be of more help than a thousand more studies documenting that socio-economic differentials in mortality exist . |
| 4 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 5 | ‘ The mere suggestion of a silhouette of chimneys , hidden behind a sycamore tree in the next door garden , may prove of more value than the carefully-studied roof lines in the architect 's perspective , ’ he wrote in ‘ Castles . ’ |
| 6 | However , The Times warned that the deal took Citizens into a much larger market in Massachusetts , ‘ a state that has been the graveyard of more banks than the federal authorities would care to remember . ’ |
| 7 | Thus the financial health of the company seemed to be of more importance than the community 's concern over the health of its children . |
| 8 | Why does a barrow boy selling bunched radishes and salad greens in the market at Chinon know by instinct so to arrange his produce that he has created a little spectacle as fresh and gay as a Dufy painting , and you are at once convinced that unless you taste some of his radishes you will be missing an experience which seems of more urgency than a visit to the Chateau of Chinon ? |
| 9 | It was low with an agreeable trace of huskiness and with a hint of more power than the frail body would suggest ; not an educated voice but one on which education had imposed a discipline which had n't quite obliterated the provincial , probably East Anglian , accent of childhood . |
| 10 | Within sublanguage applications a generative approach may be of more use than a probabilistic method . |
| 11 | It took as long again for their theories to be discredited , despite the fact that almost none of their Hollywood idols would agree that they were the sole auteur of the films they made ; while the greatest weakness of their belief was that the most flawed work by one of their preferred film-makers was of more interest than a major piece by one of those they did not rate . |