Example sentences of "[adj] than a [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that winter 's coming on , what would be more appropriate than a programme about low temperatures ? |
| 2 | First he handed over a bundle of Russian paper money that was little bigger than a wad of visiting cards , and some coins jangled . |
| 3 | ( At the extremes , a child of professional parents was about 20 times more likely than a child of semi-skilled and unskilled workers to enter full-time higher education . ) |
| 4 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 5 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
| 6 | The small yellow tablets coated in sugar and containing nothing more stimulating than a couple of stiff cups of coffee became the most bitter pill that Bud Johnson ever swallowed . |
| 7 | In contrast with some of the other areas discussed , these are much less tax-driven than a matter of commercial advantage . |
| 8 | If there are to be sacrifices and belt-tightening , the Soviet leaders love nothing better than a backdrop of international threat to add pathos and realism to the drama . |
| 9 | After all , what could be better than a get-together with local musicians , listening to your favourite gear played how it should be played , and the all-important bottle of Carlsberg ! |
| 10 | Even for a paedophile , life in Russia might be better than a cell in Long Lartin prison . |
| 11 | It made her howl with bitterness when she was alone in the weeks that followed , and it made her grit her teeth as she strode through the streets looking for revenge , or for her baby , or for Dorothy , not too sure what she was looking for but usually coming home with nothing better than a bag of old tins . |
| 12 | After more than a century of classical architecture , the mainstream of which became plainer and duller towards the end of the Georges , it is no wonder that the second Sir Robert wanted to go ‘ Tudor ’ . |
| 13 | After more than a century of relative obscurity , Gordon 's A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever of Aberdeen ( 1795 ) was recognized for what it is , a masterpiece of early epidemiology based on astute clinical observation and written with exceptional clarity . |
| 14 | An oil tank behind with a three foot bund wall all around in which more than a foot of mobile oil stands . |
| 15 | He did not believe that long discussion was of great value , rather that a considered insight or idea produced far more than a wealth of verbal expression . |
| 16 | No more than a couple of good songs and much sub-Jagger ligging and leering with the Rats ; Do They Know It 's Christmas ? ; a mediocre first solo album ; and there the list peters out . |
| 17 | Whether yours is a family garden which has to sustain the rigorous attentions of children , a more sedate garden for entertaining al fresco , or a small city garden with little room for more than a couple of raised flowers beds , a patio can give your home and lifestyle a whole new dimension . |
| 18 | This view has long been linked with those who have argued that the company should not be specially regulated by the state since it owed its existence to nothing more than a contract between individual property owners . |
| 19 | At a deeper level , the problem is far more than a kind of glorified managerial challenge . |
| 20 | I mean , Stu would never attain anything more than a kind of addled bopping , but that summer he brought a certain careless vivacity to the matter of heel-and-toe . |
| 21 | So , in a paper written to commemorate the life and work of Danny Lehrman , whose critical interest in ethology and psychiatry had been considerable , I argued pessimistically ( Crook 1977 a ) that an understanding of the primate behaviour I had been reviewing ‘ provides no more than a kind of educational backcloth — a reference literature for university courses on human evolution and that it can not begin to touch upon the existential issues that are the central focus of living human relations . |
| 22 | What I do find difficult to swallow — we argued long about this — is some strange belief of his that the world is immaterial and that humanity ( if I have it correctly ) is no more than a kind of metaphysical construct projected by nature and relying on words rather than flesh for its continued existence . |
| 23 | Many candidates who start at the bottom skip grades on the way up , or , perhaps because of pressure of other work , take more than a year between adjoining grades . |
| 24 | Agriculture provides little more than a quarter of total exports ; no doubt that figure can be improved , but not enormously . |
| 25 | More than a quarter of French farms are smaller than five hectares and are concentrated in the poorer southern and western regions . |
| 26 | Peacock scored more than a quarter of United 's goals last season — many of them from midfield . |
| 27 | The second route was to give the library user direct access to those machine-readable bibliographic records from which card and computer output microform ( COM ) catalogues had been produced for more than a decade through shared centralized cataloguing . |
| 28 | The preliminary results , particularly in Teheran , indicate Iranians ' weariness with more than a decade of revolutionary turmoil and a desire to rebuild the economy following the eight-year war with Iraq . |
| 29 | We now have a unique chance to build on more than a decade of solid progress , bringing further benefits and new successes to a nation that is , at last , getting used to real achievement . |
| 30 | Even the fall of the Khmer Rouge leader , Pol Pot , provided little relief , as more than a decade of civil war and chaos ensued . |