Example sentences of "more [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acrylic , emulsion and gesso grounds tend to be more absorbent than oil and alkyd grounds . |
| 2 | Acrylic , emulsion and gesso grounds tend to be more absorbent than oil and alkyd grounds . |
| 3 | Troy did , however , use one phrase that went a long way to describe the film 's great success , for he spoke of how it illustrated that ‘ an honest documentation of familiar American actualities becomes in a Hollywood film more absorbing than intrigue in Monte Carlo or pig-sticking in Bengal ’ . |
| 4 | Secondly , social work is likely to become more professional as training standards improve . |
| 5 | As public relations , and hence press relations , becomes more professional and expert , and as journalists need more ideas and information , so there is growing a greater recognition by media of the role public relations can play in a positive way to help them . |
| 6 | The members of these gangs grow up , some to become law-abiding citizens and others to graduate to more professional and adult forms of criminality , but the delinquent tradition is kept alive be the age-groups that succeed them … |
| 7 | ‘ It shows that investigations should not be based on the gut feeling of a particular officer — it has got to be more professional and CATCHEM is . |
| 8 | Dickson concludes that : " Tory fears of the great world of wealth and influence , which they hated with the intensity of the excluded , were based on something more solid than ignorance and prejudice . " |
| 9 | But , to me , jazz was always , and still is , much more rebellious than rock'n'roll , especially now . |
| 10 | It also suggests that this is vital if traders are to be convinced that trading across frontiers is no more strange than doing business with the shopkeeper next door . |
| 11 | more basic , and the more basic things are , the more strange and sort of |
| 12 | Trying to say the right thing to calm things down or protect people 's feelings only brings more upset and confusion . |
| 13 | It is true , as the UNHCR representative in Sarajevo Larry Hollingworth says , that road convoys are more accurate , carry more tonnage and are far more cost-effective than air drops . |
| 14 | Fiber channel proponents claim the low-latency technology is probably faster and more cost-effective than challenger FDDI . |
| 15 | While it is true that the longer the period of time over which the child 's language is sampled , the more representative that sample will be of the child 's underlying linguistic knowledge , in practical terms the length of any recording will be constrained by the time available for transcription and coding . |
| 16 | The other argument says that we are a higher and more socialised form of beast and that our urges are informed by something more subtle than base instinct . |
| 17 | These bonds are more subtle than gossamer strands of spiders in the grass and are like the fields of force of electricity or gravity . |
| 18 | More subtle than corruption , but just as damaging to the judicial process , were variations in court procedure which must have seemed arbitrary to many Sri Lankans . |
| 19 | The rules are beautifully simple , but its branching ratio is 300 or more and it is more subtle than chess . |
| 20 | As industrial processes become more complex , the energy applied to them greater , substances and compounds more subtle and control processes more remote , the potential for serious accidents increases . |
| 21 | He was being much more friendly than Father who had n't spoken a word to me all evening . |
| 22 | Chief inspector Walter Walker , who helped organise the survey , explained , ‘ Many said that they wanted us to be more friendly and caring , and give more information to visitors . |
| 23 | Most organisers set them rigidly in straight rows without checking whether some other design might give everyone a better view and provide more working and movement space . |
| 24 | As the foil plating was thicker it may have been found more durable than mercury plating . |
| 25 | Metal brushes are more durable than plastic ones , while a wire brush or comb can be particularly valuable during a moulting period , removing dead hair from the coat . |
| 26 | He points out that as well as being more durable than paint , epoflex contains no solvents and so is non-polluting . |
| 27 | Oat and barley straw is softer and more palatable than wheat and rye , and thus the most suitable for feeding in the sheaf . |
| 28 | The tussle could hardly have been more evenly-matched as Drake and partner Jonathan Smith fought back from a set down to take a 6–7 6–3 7–6 victory in a rubber which featured only three service breaks ! |
| 29 | They should also recognise that writing is often more formal and more impersonal than speech : lexical and grammatical features of language both reflect and create these contrasts . |
| 30 | This often makes songwriting more profitable than performing . |