Example sentences of "more [adj] [subord] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large , but mostly one who , through ignorance or stupidity steals in a way that is not customary . |
| 2 | Indeed the first part of the book is by far the more revealing since his recent conquests are so much more celebrated than are the tales of his friendship form an early age with John Emburey , his innings of 87 at the age of 18 for the Ilford 1stXI against Trevor Bailey 's Westcliff and his early days with Essex when he would arrive at 2nd XI matches on a moped , his cricket bag strapped to his back . |
| 3 | Arthur Young 's noisy criticisms have been more noted than his frequent , but quieter , content . |
| 4 | Such evidence that we have suggests that his father was more introspective than his brothers . |
| 5 | His husky , confident words were more devastating than his physical caresses . |
| 6 | Another training officer at this firm was a married man , less extravagant and more self-disciplined than his counterpart , although lacking his flair . |
| 7 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 8 | She might sound diffident , McLeish thought , amused , but she was n't , just more careful than his blunt Francesca about how she made her points . |
| 9 | Within a month of his succession to Kennedy , Israeli newspapers were suggesting that ‘ President Johnson will be more responsive than his predecessor to appeals from sympathisers in the US . ’ |
| 10 | Some things , then , were more reliable than his own twin likenesses in the school photograph . |
| 11 | The diaries and memoirs of those who worked closely with de Gaulle in these years give the impression that his gradual disengagement from the RPF ( which began in 1951 and was not complete until 1954 ) was not only more protracted but also more painful than his disengagement from the provisional government in January 1946 . |
| 12 | ‘ More literate than his daughter , I should think . |
| 13 | In any case , he 's almost certainly no more devious than his Celtic predecessors in the job . ’ |
| 14 | The embarrassing reality was that Burrows had proved more wily than his pursuers had given him credit for , and had managed to give the S.O.U. the slip . |
| 15 | Until the IOC , BOC or Sports Council and the pharmaceutical industry get together to clearly mark products the competitor will need to refer to it in order to be more skilful than his GP or pharmacist . |
| 16 | In the former , it is perhaps the inadequacy of Earendel that is more prominent than his partial success ; at the end of the poem his light is blotted out by the greater light of dawn . |
| 17 | In terms of setting up his particular theoretical perspective , Bourdieu 's reactions to structuralism have been more crucial than his response to action theories . |
| 18 | Fortunately his words were usually more ferocious than his actions , and , although he had Eisenhower 's full confidence , the President played a restraining role in foreign affairs . |
| 19 | He sounded rather sad and dejected , and Juliet found this more affecting than his previous caustic remarks . |
| 20 | This was more frightening than his frown . |
| 21 | Thus , in 1614 James I , believing that he was making presents more valuable than his ambassadors at foreign courts were receiving , ordered that in future the French and Spanish resident ambassadors , who had hitherto been given 4,000 ounces of plate on their departure , should in future receive only half as much and that the representatives of lesser states should also have their customary allowance cut by half . |
| 22 | More remarkable than his treatment of the mistress as recipient or subject-matter of the sonnets is Shakespeare 's treatment of the man who fills that role in the first 126 poems . |
| 23 | Generally regarded as more forthright than his predecessor , Joshi rejected a secular model of democracy for India , stressing instead the intrinsic link between Hinduism and India 's identity as a nation . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ he said in a voice that was more masculine than his flabby , characterless appearance . |
| 25 | The teacher suggested that Mrs Singh could help by reading with him , Mrs Singh to read one line , Jeetinder the next ; she was evidently unaware of the possibility that Jeetinder 's reading could be more competent than his mother 's . |
| 26 | The contradictions were beginning : a man almost more famous than his work , his best work largely ignored , and expected to play up to his own eight by ten . |
| 27 | He was more confident than his first ‘ angel ’ that heaven would provide him with the best of both worlds , and he wrote jauntily to his second wife that he had prayed that |
| 28 | He sensed already that her position was more vulnerable than his own . |
| 29 | But his nature was stronger than his conscience , his instinct more powerful than his reason . |
| 30 | As Maurice Blanchot has put it : ‘ And were not his own principles more complex than his official discourse , with its striking formulations , led one to think ? ’ |