Example sentences of "is [adv] more [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has also , inquiries revealed , sold rather more than the 40 or 50 paintings suggested by the Saatchi Collection spokeswoman in mid-week , and the pattern of his sales suggests that what we are seeing is rather more radical than a ‘ refinement ’ of the collection . |
| 2 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 3 | What is perhaps more common than a share-for-share exchange is for part of the consideration to consist of debentures issued by Newco to vendor shareholders . |
| 4 | Complete reimbursement is obviously more attractive than a contribution of a fixed amount . |
| 5 | Choose a task requiring a variety of skills and experience , not those of an expert ( often an expert alone is much more competent than a group ) . |
| 6 | 110lb ft of torque at 4400rpm may not sound like much , but in reality the G40 is so near this peak figure from idle to red line that the overall effect is much more impressive than a car that makes you wait until the revcounter is half-way round its scale before it gets going . |
| 7 | There could even be occasions then extended coverage in a large number of regional and provincial newspapers is much more useful than a short piece in The Times . |
| 8 | The row of deutzia grown as a snowy hedge in rough grass is much more effective than a single bush . |
| 9 | This final requirement makes it far re difficult to keep the list up to date but experience shown that a personalised approach is much more successful than a plain " to the industrial correspondent " . |
| 10 | This alloy is naturally silvery in colour and is much more hard-wearing than a thin layer of tinning , but it requires a high degree of skill to control the casting conditions . |
| 11 | It would be possible to resolve the pronoun here by reasoning that a dog biting a vet is much more likely than a vet biting a dog ( or , indeed , of either of them biting himself ) . |
| 12 | Recognising that the NHS is much more fragmented than a large company , it would be highly desirable to bring human resource professionals and senior managers together across London to think through how to share best practice and learn from one another as the changes unfold . |
| 13 | And that is much more important than a championship for youth next year . |
| 14 | Remember as well that a hardwood frame is much more robust than a softwood equivalent . |
| 15 | One point that is obvious is that a matching grant is generally more successful than a non-matching grant in stimulating local expenditure on a particular good or service . |
| 16 | Thus it could be argued that a doctor is functionally more important than a nurse since his or her position carries with it many of the skills necessary to perform a nurse 's role but not vice versa . |
| 17 | ( 4 ) Owing to court procedures and documents , the longer timetable and the need to engage counsel , a Court Scheme is usually more expensive than a takeover offer both in terms of money and management time . |
| 18 | With a tank at the rear and a rear end impact , which is statistically more probable than a side impact , there is a greater risk of rupturing the even bigger capacity tank . |
| 19 | Unless you have lots of tanks to check or you keep and breed Discus , Rams or maybe Uaru , you have to question if all this fuss is any more convenient than a tube and tablet kit . |
| 20 | But it has never been shown that induction is logically more respectable than a formalized argument from analogy , indeed that induction from some particulars leading to deduction of others is anything else but a roundabout argument from analogy . |
| 21 | It is also more dense than a normal lining and is thus able to cut out more light . |
| 22 | A team of nine is far more effective than a single person in making contact with schools . |
| 23 | Mention this to most clergymen and they will rightly say that spiritual development is far more important than a degree . |
| 24 | A subdued boom is almost more formidable than a boom that 's allowed full bent . |
| 25 | The celebrated cases make the point that in spite of its ill-deserved reputation , Glasgow is actually more peaceful than a lot of other places I could think of … unless , of course , you were an innocent wee serving lassie in 1862 . |
| 26 | It makes sense that the ineffable languor of Prince is infinitely more fruitious than a thousand sinewy Age of Chance slogans . |
| 27 | The catapult works very much like a stone thrower as described in the Warhammer rules except that the Goblin is able to steer himself to his target and is therefore more accurate than a stone . |