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 . |