Example sentences of "more [adj] than [noun] " 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 | But the most important thing about Lord Robertson was that in this particular case he was even more prejudiced than Lord Grant , although in the light of all that had recently occurred , with far less excuse . |
| 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 | Inside , it is more Scandinavian than Ribe . |
| 8 | But in the fragile family economy of the poor , tallymen , pawnshops , goose clubs ( to provide the Christmas dinner ) and ticket clubs were an essential part of household management , some being more respectable than others . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ But not more grateful than Stella , ’ Bill put in . |
| 11 | Methods of cultivation were so improved that even relatively poor land could be intensively exploited ; new crops were introduced , which involved new systems of rotation and made large units of farmland more economic than small-holdings . |
| 12 | It was an interesting remark on many levels : A.J.P. Taylor has said that the phrase was more revealing than Bismarck intended : ‘ When he wanted to define Germany it was Pomerania on the Baltic , not the Rhineland , Bavaria or Austria which came into his mind . ’ |
| 13 | Claudia squealed , and Myra apologised , looking far more upset than Claudia was . |
| 14 | They are so vain in bed , much more vain than women . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Fiber channel proponents claim the low-latency technology is probably faster and more cost-effective than challenger FDDI . |
| 17 | Suppose that in our population of replicators , which vary because of old copying errors back in their ‘ ancestry ’ , some varieties happen to be more sticky than others . |
| 18 | And yet an Englishman 's relation to English culture and its traditions may be more tormented than Schniedau allows for , especially if the Englishman in question defines himself as , or aspires to be , an English artist . |
| 19 | Flight more undulating than Skylark ; can run very fast . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | These bonds are more subtle than gossamer strands of spiders in the grass and are like the fields of force of electricity or gravity . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The rules are beautifully simple , but its branching ratio is 300 or more and it is more subtle than chess . |
| 24 | He was being much more friendly than Father who had n't spoken a word to me all evening . |
| 25 | Bau-Bau was infinitely more friendly than Makassar , and far less desperate than Bira . |
| 26 | Even if she is an overpaid brat in danger of losing her marbles , at least she provokes a reaction , and is 500 times more controversial than Madonna . |
| 27 | More controversial than Woody Allen on a shopping spree in children 's world . |
| 28 | He was notably more libertarian than Tolkien , for all that , who as a Catholic had supported Franco during the Spanish Civil War . |
| 29 | This suggests that men are more cruel than women towards cats , but such an interpretation assumes that cats can distinguish between deliberate cruelty and pain inflicted for the animals ' own good . |
| 30 | Right from the very beginning of this extract , where Joan poses a question in LE , and receives a response from Carol which uses Creole vowels in the pronunciation of the surname Lomax , there is a pattern of Carol using more Creole than Joan . |