Example sentences of "[adj] than water " in BNC.

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1 I just wish they spied out something more entertaining than water and doctors .
2 Water quality is more important than water chemistry .
3 Even more skulking than Water Rail .
4 Under heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water .
5 Profits à prendre are rights to take things of value ( other than water ) from land , such as the right of common pasture , or rights of fishery ( commoners , it should be noticed , are not owners of the common ) .
6 But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees .
7 The Sahara is a new desert , and , other than water , it has the same geographical features as other major land masses .
8 It felt more like landing on concrete than water .
9 Water that is salty is more dense than water that is fresh .
10 It is this open structure which makes ice less dense than water , and accounts for the fact that it floats .
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