Example sentences of "more [adj] [subord] [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 | 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 . " |
| 6 | But , to me , jazz was always , and still is , much more rebellious than rock'n'roll , especially now . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Fiber channel proponents claim the low-latency technology is probably faster and more cost-effective than challenger FDDI . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | These bonds are more subtle than gossamer strands of spiders in the grass and are like the fields of force of electricity or gravity . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The rules are beautifully simple , but its branching ratio is 300 or more and it is more subtle than chess . |
| 14 | He was being much more friendly than Father who had n't spoken a word to me all evening . |
| 15 | As the foil plating was thicker it may have been found more durable than mercury plating . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He points out that as well as being more durable than paint , epoflex contains no solvents and so is non-polluting . |
| 18 | Oat and barley straw is softer and more palatable than wheat and rye , and thus the most suitable for feeding in the sheaf . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This often makes songwriting more profitable than performing . |
| 22 | The expert 's liability in tort can never be more extensive than liability under any related contract , and whether the expert will be liable at all will always depend on the particular context and purpose of the particular statement . |
| 23 | It is rounder and more pungent than soya sauce . |
| 24 | Pop videos themselves are consistently reactionary in their sexual imagery ( and this is an aspect of the cooption of new pop to which I will return ) if only because they draw on visual conventions of masculinity and femininity ( taken from cinema history and television commercials ) that are much more coherent than pop 's adolescent ambiguities . |
| 25 | And it is an undisputed fact at Manchester City that Dutchman Michael Vonk , signed this year , is more coherent than Scouse manager Peter Reid . |
| 26 | In no area are these pressures more acute than vehicle design . |
| 27 | These possibilities , and from time to time actualities , of conflict may be observed in many different spheres : in the strains which arise from the redistribution of economic resources between industrial and developing countries , and from the scarcity of some natural resources , which will become more acute as industrialization proceeds throughout the world ; in the difficulties of controlling the spread of nuclear weapons ; in the more directly political struggles for power and prestige in some regions of the world ( for example , in the Middle East and among Latin American countries ) , and until recently between two nuclear superpowers . |
| 28 | In the 1920s America had witnessed some of the problems of the modern world that was emerging after the First World War ; the confusions and uncertainties that revealed themselves became more acute as prosperity suddenly came to an end in 1929 . |
| 29 | ‘ . The resulting sense of vulnerability is the more acute because regulation implies a degree of tolerance about the activity causing concern , rather than its elimination . |
| 30 | If line B may be more specific than line A , we can ask , In what way can the somewhat vague language of A , , " they will change , substitute , renew ( their ) strength " , be specified further by B ? |