Example sentences of "[adj] than [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was shorter than Jimmy by a foot ; perhaps five foot three , and her long dark hair was cut to fall around her face in an old-fashioned sixties manner . |
| 2 | Print on a page is more seductive than print on a screen . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough were happier than Charlton with a point at Upton Park . |
| 4 | The idea that life in the community is better than life in a hospital has , for decades , been an article of faith for mental health workers . |
| 5 | This probe had been shown to be better than actin as a control for the amount and quality of total ribonucleic acid loaded . |
| 6 | If the client is confident that he 's getting the best deal from us , he will say , alright Birmingham ar are cheaper than York on a route improvement say , but I 've had one of their cheap jobs before . |
| 7 | She does n't watch all that , she does n't watch all that much really I think she gets more tired than Amy in a way . |
| 8 | Most sporting methods do no more than cream off a proportion of the rabbit stock , but ferreting , to my mind , is the ultimate . |
| 9 | His magic , the magic of uncovering a man who had trod the land that I now trod , who died and was laid in the chalk 3,000 years ago , had been little more than pages in a notebook : another find in the ceaseless archaeological round . |
| 10 | Is it fair that some people earn much more than others in a market economy ? |
| 11 | It was the first time in more than quarter of a century that the socialists had been returned to power . |
| 12 | Mr Wise 's Mill continued to make cloth for some time , although it is not clear whether the firm of Ellis and Apperly , who were later recorded there , were more than tenants for a while . |
| 13 | To men who lived on what they could pick up from articles and reviews , the ultimate weapon implied more than lack of a showcase : it implied starvation … |
| 14 | It also has applications in field archaeology where financial or time constraints preclude excavation of more than part of a site , and where it is therefore important that the excavated part yields as much information as possible . |
| 15 | But there are four reasons why these years should not be used as anything more than points on a continuum . |
| 16 | Nationality as such played little part in most respondents ' educational life-chances or expectations ; and educational attainment in turn was far more important than nationality as a determinant of occupational position , although Russians did enjoy some advantages in applying for minor bureaucratic positions because of their better knowledge of the language in which most state business was conducted . |
| 17 | A willingness to learn and perseverance are much more important than candles on a birthday cake . |
| 18 | So the ‘ quantity ’ of services provided ( measured , for example , by the number of workers employed in providing them ) rose no faster than output as a whole . |
| 19 | But to refer to Wladek as ‘ a typical representative of the culturally passive mass which constitutes in every civilised society the enormous majority of the population ’ is to do less than justice to a tale which is at times very lively indeed and which was surely not written by any ‘ passive ’ sort of person . |
| 20 | You should bear in mind , too , that the lines with the least stretch are less supple than lines with a lot of stretch . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd rather starve first than work for a man like that ! ’ |
| 22 | This is much higher than articles in a journal , where some of the more esoteric papers will be interest to perhaps no more than four or five readers world-wide . |
| 23 | Thinking of a boy 's name is harder than thinking of a girl 's . |
| 24 | It should be added that relapse is uncommon and is almost certainly less common than reinfection as a cause of reappearance of active syphilis . |
| 25 | Cytomegalovirus infection of an internal organ other than liver in a patient > 1 month of age . |
| 26 | The work which can be done is any work a solicitor normally does other than representation in a court or tribunal . |
| 27 | GDP figures suggest that Penang is about 20% richer than Malaysia as a whole and the gap is likely to grow . |
| 28 | The problem facing ICI fibres , though , was that for clothing in Europe , polyester use is greater than polyamide by a ratio of 3:1 . |
| 29 | One relatively new name has been the left-arm seamer Mickey Bell , who arrived no earlier than June for a summer contract . |
| 30 | It was also suggested that should the Chancellor need to make urgent calls to the International Monetary Fund , his telephone at home was likely to be more secure than calls from a hotel in Blackpool surrounded by journalists . |