Example sentences of "[adj] than [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's late now , and it 'll be quicker than waiting for a cab — and it 's insured for all drivers . |
| 2 | Well I do n't like office , I love hotels and I think having meetings in a hotel 's more civilized than sitting in an office . |
| 3 | So nothing could be more natural than going for a walk and holding hands with mum . |
| 4 | A year later , living above the shop — a 150-year-old converted granite cottage — he finds running his own business a lot more stimulating than working in a bank , and village life much more fun . |
| 5 | Consequently , many young people now see choral singing as less glamorous and challenging than playing in an ensemble . |
| 6 | It 's also far more effective than planting in a layer of soil on the bottom of the pond . |
| 7 | • Raw fruit is better than cooked as a rule . |
| 8 | After a hard day at the office — in Joey Dunlop 's case the Carrowdore 100 — our world motorcycle ace likes nothing better than unwinding with a cup of tea and a bite to eat . |
| 9 | A nearby resident said : ‘ I think it 's terrible — no better than listening with an ear to a keyhole . ’ |
| 10 | Better than believing in a god . |
| 11 | I figured it was better than working in a factory . |
| 12 | He used to say that nothing could be more ludicrous than going to a football match and then reading somebody else 's account of what you had already seen . |
| 13 | Shell also said the foreign exchange loss would be more than offset by a tax credit of £149 million from its Japanese subsidiary . |
| 14 | It said that ‘ short-term and somewhat minimal job prospects ’ created by gold mining would be ‘ more than offset by a drop in tourism jobs . |
| 15 | And they , of course , fuel the form of crime fiction that attempts to do something more than indulge in a contest with the reader — the books I call the detective novel and the crime novel . |
| 16 | The number of cases have more than tripled in a week , registering the highest increase since the 1975-76 epidemic — when a peak of 350 cases per 100,000 were recorded and 1,283 people died . |
| 17 | Le Monde of Sept. 6 said that an estimated 400,000 hectares of rice had been affected , adding that rice prices had more than tripled in a week . |
| 18 | Courses primarily of the one-hour-a-week variety and based on vocabulary with English — sign equivalents can do no more than serve as an introduction . |
| 19 | When the younger counsellor shares these experiences with the older counsellee they are both doing far more than embarking on a process of recalling the past , they are sharing a common heritage which has been formative for the young as well as the old , although less directly so . |
| 20 | There is a great deal of potential here for criminalising conduct that amounts to little more than arguing with a policeman , which it should be one of the aims of public order law to prevent . |
| 21 | There 's nothing I hate more than going to an exhibition where there 's nobody there whom I know and there 's nothing there which I like … |
| 22 | Was it better to be raped by a Nazi than seduced by a Frenchman ? |
| 23 | ‘ I ca n't claim to be a sailing fanatic , but this is a lot more civilised than battling through a Force Six in the Solent , togged up like an alien from outer space in thermals and foul-weather gear ! ’ |
| 24 | Fighting for a place in the Leeds United line-up must be better and more important than fighting for a place in Norway 's World Cup squad . |
| 25 | Taking a funeral policy can cost less than paying for a funeral plan by instalments but it depends on average life expectancy . |
| 26 | Giaffer and colleagues have recently used a slightly modified buccal cell adhesion assay to show that E coli from ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease patients were significantly more adhesive than isolates from a control group , but thiat this property was independent of disease activity , anatomical site and treatment . |
| 27 | He goes out alone … and sometimes he goes to the bank and draws out large sums of money … it 's worse than dealing with a child … the most wearing part is the mental strain , not the washing and things like that ; it 's the having to take the lead all the time … [ 24 ; 1H I can stand the strain at the moment , but I ca n't say for how long . |
| 28 | This is a lot worse than talking into a tape-recorder ! |
| 29 | They need not necessarily be any more expensive than enrolling on a course . |
| 30 | That 's fun — nothing is more boring than playing to a metronome . |