Example sentences of "are [art] more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are familiar with the spectacle of its loss , in pre-war Germany , for example , and in present-day Russia and China ; and so we are the more determined to preserve it for ourselves . |
| 2 | Dr John Habgood , speaking in the Lords during the second reading debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill , said : ‘ Christians are no more required to believe that humanness is created in an instant than we are required to believe in the historical existence of Adam and Eve . ’ |
| 3 | Reed warblers are no more likely to eject a model cuckoo 's egg when it is simply added to those already in the nest than they are when a substitution is carried out . |
| 4 | Scientists working in a team , each looking at a separate facet of a problem , may well throw light on details , but they are no more likely to make fundamental discoveries than monkeys with typewriters . |
| 5 | Inoculated with rhinoviruses , people are no more likely to develop a cold ( or ‘ chill ’ ) if kept cold and damp than if tucked up warm . |
| 6 | But it is also plain that despite sterling 's depreciation to a rate at which it might be reasonably competitive within the Exchange Rate Mechanism , Mrs Thatcher 's team are no more ready to sign on the dotted line than they were in Madrid this summer . |