Example sentences of "with more [noun] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ OK , ’ says I with more composure than a Confucian in a comfort station . |
| 2 | Moreover , there is no one in all Chung Kuo with more experience than the Marshal . |
| 3 | ‘ Ease up on the populace , creeps , ’ said I with more heroism than an entire Audi Murphy season . |
| 4 | They walked on either side of me and talked to each other , jabbering utter nonsense as though it was all so important , and I , with more brains than the two of them put together and information of the most vital nature , could n't get a word out . |
| 5 | ‘ OK , ’ said I with more determination than a sybarite in a sacristy . |
| 6 | Jenny laughed with more enthusiasm than the witticism merited . |
| 7 | Beautiful scenery , fresh air and good food , a chance to live the simple life , staying in accommodation with more character than a motel and more comfort than a tent . |
| 8 | A small , shallow valance approximately 15cm ( 6in ) deep , with more fullness than the curtains , would enhance the window 's appearance and would make very little difference to the light in the room . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's all about doing it better and with more style than the next man . |
| 10 | It went faster and with more noise than the roundabouts for little children with engines and ducks and bicycles fixed on . |
| 11 | Scientists discovered the atom vibrates with more regularity than the earth turns on its axis . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't mean to , ’ said I , slipping into the first-person with more delicacy than a dog log in a dowager 's duffle bag . |
| 13 | If anything , he handled this crisis with more aplomb than the earlier one . |
| 14 | ‘ Do it now , ’ said I , with more authority than a gymnosophist in a lesbian love-dungeon . |
| 15 | The data get to the ground-based supercomputers through the TDRSS relay satellites , which can cope with more data than the SDS . |
| 16 | Despite their far longer involvement in the Middle East , the members of the European Community felt inhibited from acting with more resolution than the United States . |
| 17 | In the long term seven people in ten will be drinking water with more nitrate than the European limit in the Anglian region and half those in , Severn Trent . ’ |
| 18 | No Moslem could have greeted the sight of its medieval columns with more glee than the clapped-out crews of the TransaDeuche for , even though the place is a little less remote these days , it was still a pretty formidable achievement getting to it in a vehicle not really designed to leave the Left Bank . |
| 19 | For most of his career after discovering the similia principle , he was inundated with more patients than the average practitioner could have coped with . |
| 20 | I enquired , with more dignity than a bandy-legged clog dancer at a Star Trek convention . |
| 21 | I walked into the bar with more finagle than a ferret in a tinker 's trouser . |
| 22 | ‘ Speak on , ’ said I with more encouragement than a Brahman temple dancer at a Brown Shirt 's bump supper . |
| 23 | ‘ That guy back there was n't human , ’ I observed with more perspicacity than a panty-girdle pedlar at a Tupperware party . |