Example sentences of "more [adj] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much nicer and far more refreshing than the bland oiliness of avocado and prawns , a combination which still baffles me . |
| 2 | But if it is short , it is also dynamic and various , altogether more refreshing than the endless dunes of the Landes , north of the Adour . |
| 3 | in my eyes like , was more professional than the one that had done the new one ! |
| 4 | The critics ' favourite accusation that Neverland looks like a theme park is fair , though hardly a criticism — most children and adults enjoy Disneyland , and the movie is no more garish than The Wizard of Oz , a great children 's film which has been rendered critically respectable by age . |
| 5 | After much fretting and threats of legal action , the RFU had little choice but to back down — and endorse a strip that is if anything , more garish than the last effort . |
| 6 | We could lie propped up against wide pillows edged with lace , the legs of the bed rooted in a froth of cow parsley , convolvulus thrusting through the wrought-iron bedstead , the blue sky and the clouds more solid than the rows of houses underneath . |
| 7 | But it has also been suggested that the animal 's heart could not have pumped enough blood to nourish a head any larger , or one that was in fact more solid than the light , airy structure of the skull of many known species . |
| 8 | I had always suspected him of being rather more solid than the average person and this collision provided complete confirmation . |
| 9 | She stands on the step looking more solid than the door . |
| 10 | The sand i's solid , more solid than the earth you see ? |
| 11 | Well of course it 's rather more solid than the atom is . |
| 12 | Senior did once turn the ball into the net but David Elleray was more alert than the referee of England 's 1986 World Cup tie against Argentina and had noticed the hand of a mere mortal . |
| 13 | There might well be a guard at its door also , but , it was to be hoped , no more alert than the rest . |
| 14 | There were only two movements , and the first was a lot more striking than the second , which tended to lose energy with time-filling sequences . |
| 15 | More striking than the provision of popular entertainment for profit was the remarkable degree to which the landed interest , the liberal professions , and even sections of the business community itself excluded commercial forces from sport . |
| 16 | On the other hand , what older people have in common is in some ways more striking than the class differences between them . |
| 17 | However the similarities are more striking than the differences . |
| 18 | The similarities between the two groups of practices in the proportion going to private clinics in each individual specialty ( table VI ) were much more striking than the differences . |
| 19 | The canes are far more striking than the flowers . |
| 20 | He was all the more striking because the boast that he ran his papers just to make money contrasted strongly with the more complex motives , combining profit with politics , that were still typical of the proprietors of the early 1960s . |
| 21 | Are we to say that God 's assurance is no more assured than the fluctuations of our feelings ? |
| 22 | The Association proved to be more resilient than the defunct N.D.D.S. although it led a precarious existence for a number of years before becoming established . |
| 23 | True , they have feeble strength and toughness , but with three wounds they are more resilient than the same frontage of Goblins or Orcs . |
| 24 | Arguments such as this are in principle more respectable than the argument based on sheer , naked incredulity . |
| 25 | All the more strange that the advocates of a return to Victorian values should chide trade unions for refusing to forgo or minimise pay rises in order to create more jobs or to contain inflation . |
| 26 | Whatever it was on the bottom of the loch it was no more strange than the atmosphere on that boat . |
| 27 | Matilda , who had been listening closely , said , ‘ But daddy , that 's even more dishonest than the sawdust . |
| 28 | This gives a route to acetic acid , selling for about £310 a tonne , that is more economic than the one from say , ethanol , at around £470 a tonne . |
| 29 | Mr Prokhorov said that the answer to the contradiction between political renewal and economic crisis lay in Marxism , which ‘ teaches us that the superstructure is more mobile than the base , and that it is the first to react to a change of conditions . ’ |
| 30 | The promotional activities of dealers and certain critics became more brazen as the decade proceeded . |