Example sentences of "[be] more [adj] than [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A two year study is to take place which will include the consideration of methods of killing that are more acceptable than stabbing or clubbing . |
| 2 | What could be more devastating than discovering that the one man you relied on has blown your world apart ? |
| 3 | Rousseau ( 1762 , p.54 ) wrote in Émile : ‘ Childhood has its own ways of seeing , thinking and feeling ; nothing is more foolish than to try and substitute our ways ’ . |
| 4 | I learned that sex without emotional involvement or more than a fleeting physical attraction was more sad than fulfilling and that ‘ getting even ’ could only motivate me for so long — particularly since my husband was blithely unaware that I was evening the score . |
| 5 | On returning to the box and resuming his duties , he was more puzzled than frightened for he did not believe in ghosts . |