Example sentences of "[pron] more [adj] [subord] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so pleased to note that someone more knowledgeable than your reviewer Robert Nye about the Rev William Gaskell had written to you ( the Rev Andrew M Hill , Points of View , 13 March ) . |
| 2 | You should discuss the situation with someone more senior than your boss within the company . |
| 3 | It was just a vicious slander , based on nothing more substantial than your obsessive dislike of me ! ’ |
| 4 | There may be truth in such a suggestion ; and my own dislike of it may stem from nothing more profound than my intense dislike of the word ‘ leisure ’ , suggesting to me , as it does , the spectacle of some drone-figure sitting in a deck-chair while someone else mows the lawn , or a grim marina , packed with empty yachts . |
| 5 | In January he began work on a portrait of the Princess of Wales and seeks to offer something more serious than their media image . |
| 6 | Hands on knees and lights out with a mind buzzing like a bee and the strong conviction that I should be sorting out something more tangible than my mind . |
| 7 | She and her husband Edward , an insurance broker , had inherited the land and wanted something more spacious than their four-bed roomed London house . |
| 8 | Religion tends to be based on the need of people to believe in something more important than their own trivial lives . |
| 9 | Are they more impressive than their male counterparts ? |
| 10 | Whether it was the cash he was now heavy with or the challenge of out-running a Daimler that motivated him , he put his cab through its paces , proving it more mobile than its bulk would have suggested . |
| 11 | MY friends and I were discussing whether we would find it more acceptable if our husbands had an affair based on lust , rather than love . |
| 12 | Yeah so , so perhaps the things that , the things that erm seem to us more important than your bodily configuration , whether I have blue eyes or brown eyes , something that 's more important seems to be the sorts of desires I have . |
| 13 | ‘ He has this notion that women are not capable of managing anything more important than their own kitchen — and then only if they have a competent cook . |
| 14 | Elena 's cult was if anything more bizarre than her husband 's ; the claims made on her behalf were even less credible than the praise lavished on Nicolae . |