Example sentences of "[adj] than a [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time was ‘ quicker than a shake of a lamb 's tail ’ . |
| 2 | Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out . |
| 3 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 4 | It was no more painful than a ring through a punk 's nose . |
| 5 | it is more private than a hearing in the civil courts — the press and public are not entitled to be present |
| 6 | The Northern Echo prompted a public outcry last year when it revealed how a night in the cells at Bishop Auckland police station cost £200 dearer than a room at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 7 | I have never lived any nearer than a mile from a public bus and at one point it would be maybe two and a half miles from that bus , so my children , well my children are grown up now , but my children got nowhere or did nothing if I did n't drive nobody delivers the shopping nobody goes |
| 8 | A painting of a male head , which is almost certainly a study for the figure of the sailor that Picasso originally intended to place in the centre of the composition , while it is bolder and sketchier than a work like the Self-Portrait , shows all the earlier Iberian devices . |
| 9 | ‘ I have promised to take big fights all over the country and they come no bigger than a bout with a world title at stake , ’ Hearn said . |
| 10 | Handsome young rascal with hands that had never lifted anything heavier than a pen by the look of them . |
| 11 | If you have ever tried growing anything taller than a lettuce in a grow-bag , you will have encountered the problem of floppy stakes . |
| 12 | Imagine hosting Christmas for a similarly huge number in a disused warehouse , with nothing more sophisticated than a Portakabin for a kitchen . |
| 13 | On the northern fringe of the wood-pasture belt fewer than a quarter of the people of Blofield , East Flegg and Walsham hundreds in Norfolk had less than £2 , almost as many having £5 — £9 . |
| 14 | However , it quickly emerged that this declaration was backed by fewer than a quarter of the Platform delegates at the congress . |
| 15 | According to Reuters news agency , the draft apparently provided for the election of fewer than a quarter of the 460 Sejm deputies by a first-past-the-post majority vote ; most of the seats would be distributed to parties proportional to the votes won by their national lists of candidates . |
| 16 | I will bring you a cloak , it is not much , but warmer and more comfortable than a night on the cliff tops ! ’ |
| 17 | About ⅛″ is a suitable size for a close-mesh net , not larger than a quarter of an inch in the case of a home-made , drilled plate where the holes can be spaced more widely apart . |
| 18 | A moorland parish will obviously be larger than a parish in a fertile area that was densely settled in early times ; a church that was an Anglo-Saxon missionary centre will usually have a larger parish than one that was founded later . |
| 19 | If you want to en try and ensure that you 're going to have a self sustained community , one hundred percent , you make sure that presumably you 've got a show case cinema with fifteen screens there , er a B and Q , erm a whole range of of facilities that nobody ever needs leave , erm erm erm er that new settlement , the reality of the real world of course is that all settlements to a greater or lesser degree , er have a relationship with other er larger scale settlements , now then let's look at the new settlement , fourteen hundred dwellings , we estimate that that is going to be of the order of around three thousand three hundred people , now that is sizeable , it is not small , it is larger than a number of the small market towns er in North Yorkshire , like Boroughbridge , Settle , it is a significant development erm erm and within it erm there will be a requirement er be a requirement for a a a primary school , it justifies that . |
| 20 | Nothing could be more provocative to Tolkien than a word without a referent ( emnet , wodwos , Gandálfr , ent ) , except perhaps an ancient poem written off by modern scholars as hopelessly irrational . |
| 21 | ( Note : There really is nothing more comforting than a chicken from the kosher butcher . |
| 22 | A demand by such an authority under an ultra vires regulation is no more or no less unlawful than a demand under a valid regulation which does not apply to the situation in which the demand is made . |
| 23 | Equally a group with a wider range of talents in its midst tends to be more effective than a group with a narrow range of talents . |
| 24 | Equally , a feminist who left a meeting , went home and jumped into bed with hubbie or boyfriend , was no better than a member of the fifth column . |
| 25 | Well it 's better than a kick in the teeth is n't it ? |
| 26 | Better than a kick in the teeth in n it ? |
| 27 | You have to admit , she 's better than a kick in the wot-nots ! |
| 28 | The availability of the combined transport operator 's comprehensive insurance is clearly better than a suit against an uninsured , insolvent issuer of a traditional ocean bill of lading . |
| 29 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 30 | What is better than a run in the car followed by a good meal in a country inn or a pleasant roadhouse ? |