Example sentences of "expensive than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Anyway , living in a city was more expensive than a rural existence would be , he reasoned , thus rationalising his longing to return home . |
2 | A nicely bound A4 format logbook is bound to be more expensive than a tatty exercise book , but as well as being more effective it will also look much more impressive on the chart table or in the bookcase ! |
3 | This is a little more expensive than a normal invitation but it is less likely that it will get lost . |
4 | It is generally time consuming involving more sources and therefore more expensive than a reactive search . |
5 | However , if a double page spread ( DPS ) is 75 per cent more expensive than a single page , or a 40-second TV spot is 33 per cent more expensive than a 30-second spot , is the resulting ad going to be 75 per cent or 33 per cent more effective ? |
6 | The Builder had an editorial on 19th February which contained extracts from a letter from Scott reasserting that his design was better lit , as convenient and no more expensive than a classical design , and it commented that Scott 's opponents did not understand that he was not intending to reproduce old forms rigidly and he was only willing to introduce ‘ the refinements and inventions of our own day ’ . |
7 | We have noticed over the last few months at Cadogan Travel seem to be noticeably more expensive than the other travel agents used by Christian Aid . |
8 | And low-alcohol beer — which incurs no duty — is more expensive than the real thing . |
9 | In 1938 the ordinary fees were twenty-one guineas a year , and for those who paid fees this made Emanuel rather more expensive than the general run of London County Council secondary schools . |
10 | Against all advice and costings , the Conservative council awarded the catering contract for Bradford 's theatres to an outside company that was even more expensive than the in-house team . |
11 | This both pleased and hampered the trade : pleased , because oak was more expensive than the traditional elm ; hampered , as it was easier , less time-consuming and required far less skill to cover an elm coffin with baize or velvet than to spend time on french polishing . |
12 | Hysteroscopy and biopsy are more time consuming and expensive than the traditional dilatation and curettage . |
13 | They 're not as big and not as yellow but likely to be more expensive than the current price of around 49p a pound . |
14 | Electronic stencil cutting is becoming more popular for , although more expensive than the ordinary method , it is still less expensive than printing . |
15 | Although more expensive than the normal range of tartan carpets , an increasing number of people are having their own tartans designed . |
16 | On balance , traditional methods of training are up to 40% more expensive than the open learning techniques such as those practised by the Open Business School . |
17 | Adding in the cost of the bus fare would jack up the APR to 33.7 per cent — more expensive than the local shop . |
18 | When designed in a holistic way by the disabled person , the package of assistance which enables them to do so is no more expensive than the service-based alternative . |
19 | Cobalt blue is a pure blue , lacking the greenish undertone of previous artists ' blues like azurite , Prussian blue and indigo and it is far less expensive than the natural ultramarine , extracted from lapis lazuli , used by artists in earlier centuries . |
20 | Clearly , however , the fame of the artist overrides all these statements : a pen and ink Rembrandt is vastly more expensive than an eighteenth-century watercolour . |
21 | Sadly , the Macintosh is still slightly more expensive than an equivalent PC system — especially when it has to be made PC compatible by adding AppleTalk or extras like the PC disk drive . |