Example sentences of "more [adj] [noun sg] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This would be great for travelling — and warm enough for those brutal Russian winters , ’ said Saska , as our star slipped into something decidedly comfortable , and performed a rather more professional twirl than most make-over ‘ guinea pigs ’ can manage . |
| 2 | Although Dundee are traditionally a ‘ protestant ’ team , religion plays a much more low-key role than in Glasgow and Edinburgh ; the rivalry is one of status . |
| 3 | It has a characteristic shortness of the leg between knee and fetlock and a much thicker and more solid conformation than the Kerry . |
| 4 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 5 | More coiled steel than living — a poised |
| 6 | The knowledge gap between doctor and patient is not greater than that between lawyer and client — indeed there is probably much more do-it-yourself medicine than law — but the gap is less resented in medicine . |
| 7 | A mild recession may cause far more economic damage than a one-day stockmarket fall of , say , 25% , but it is much less unsettling . |
| 8 | In theory , and ( with due allowance for the uncertainties involved ) in practice too , this approach clearly generates accounts of far more economic use than the historical cost mumbo-jumbo that still appears in so many corporate accounts . |
| 9 | This approach clearly generates accounts of far more economic use than the historical cost mumbo-jumbo that still appears in many corporate accounts |
| 10 | A little perhaps but er I mean you can have people that are more damn trouble than they 're worth ca n't you ? |
| 11 | Here , though , the family was a larger , more cohesive unit than in the Saxon shires , keeping its property undivided . |
| 12 | If it is still stable at temperatures in excess of 100 K above T g , the temperature dependence has an exponential form where according to the Eyring rate theory ΔH is the activation enthalpy of viscous flow and is a more representative parameter than the energy . |
| 13 | Macao already has a significantly more representative government than Hong Kong . |
| 14 | One unfortunate Girl had a more ample bosom than her colleagues and as Jennie could see her sticking out in front , she was ordered to get further back . |
| 15 | The food in some areas has more regional character than others but there are fine meals to be had if you ask around . |
| 16 | Data compiled in this way can then be used by co-workers to combine results into a more regional synthesis than otherwise possible . |
| 17 | ‘ Is not the heat of a warm room conveyed through the vacuum by the vibrations of a much more subtle medium than air which after the air was drawn out remained in the vacuum ? |
| 18 | Gohlke tells a more subtle story than made the early headlines . |
| 19 | Although he is a versatile director , the emotional notes he specialises in teasing out tend to be of a more subtle nature than the full-blooded chords of sexual ecstasy . |
| 20 | ‘ She thought she would get more for her money and she felt it was a more friendly environment than perhaps Liverpool or somewhere like that . ’ |
| 21 | Despite the more favourable opinion of chroniclers , Henry 's personality makes a more unpleasing impression than that of Rufus . |
| 22 | Five years ago this would not have been possible , and it is a measure of the success of the Cleveland Classics series of concerts that a mass audience has been gradually persuaded to sample music of a more controversial stamp than the usual ‘ pops ’ . |
| 23 | As I said before , Klemperer 's conducting invariably fuelled controversy , and I can not imagine a more controversial performance than his 1968 recording of Mahler 's Seventh Symphony , which comes in a boxed set with the appropriate coupling of Klemperer 's own Second Symphony and his Seventh String Quartet , the latter performed by the Philharmonia Quartet ( ) . |
| 24 | A few decades ago this would have been a much more controversial question than it is today , because one possible answer would have been that the Universe had always existed , and always would . |
| 25 | Most skinheads see themselves as straightforward blokes and birds , more honest than the soul boys , more working class than the punks and the posers , rougher and tougher than the mods . |
| 26 | The normal women showed more obsessional symptoms and more obsessional distress than the normal men . |
| 27 | Children are seen as learning to write by direct imitation of adult models , and accurate imitation is implicitly regarded as a more advanced achievement than the child 's own attempts to represent the writing system through ‘ pretend writing ’ . |
| 28 | But because applications will probably be pooled , you may well end up with more of them on your machine ; and you may find yourself running more advanced software than you would on a standalone PC . |
| 29 | Most important , however , is the integration of StreetTalk III , recognised as a far more advanced system than the basic directory services now been introduced by the likes of Novell Inc . |
| 30 | Most Koi keepers will claim that their larger ponds require more advanced filtration than a box unit . |