Example sentences of "[adj] than a [noun] in the " in BNC.
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1 | it is more private than a hearing in the civil courts — the press and public are not entitled to be present |
2 | Well it 's better than a kick in the teeth is n't it ? |
3 | Better than a kick in the teeth in n it ? |
4 | You have to admit , she 's better than a kick in the wot-nots ! |
5 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
6 | What is better than a run in the car followed by a good meal in a country inn or a pleasant roadhouse ? |
7 | Well that , thought Dalgliesh wryly , was better than a note in the parish magazine , a telephone call to the daily papers or a sermon next Sunday on the phenomenon of stigmata and the inscrutable wisdom of providence . |
8 | Begging your pardon , Sir , but some of those alleged artists that get feted on BBC Two could paint no better than a monkey in the zoo . |
9 | And the Kaiser did everything he could to ensure that his son should be no more than a figurehead in the army given under his command . |
10 | It was hardly more than a flicker in the eyes , but suddenly Ruth felt she glimpsed Adam again , her own brother , looking out at her desperately . |
11 | In the South Western Board , for example , it was decided to centralise accounting functions , reducing billing costs by more than a quarter in the first eighteen months , and there were further economies subsequently through mechanisation and centralisation on their Plymouth accounting office . |
12 | Moreover , despite the conservatism in design , the capital cost per MW of generating stations did decline in real terms , by more than a quarter in the period affected by the BEA 's decisions in its first five years , a decline almost as rapid as that achieved later . |
13 | Henceforth the local , stable community where relationships were both personal and persistent became no more than a rarity in the modern world . |
14 | In the middle of combat , one is little more than a wave in the sea … a stroke of the brush lost in the painting … |
15 | Liebknecht 's attempt to hold an anti-war rally in the Potsdamer Platz on May 1st , 1916 , was not yet anything more than a flash in the pan . |
16 | Against this background the terms of settlement of the 1911 strike indicated no more than a truce in the battle for the control of the supply of labour in the industry . |
17 | For her , their lovemaking might have been an almost mystical fusing of bodies and identities , yet for him it had been no more than a roll in the hay . |
18 | She likes it here but that place she 's got is no more than a hole in the wall . |
19 | A call of nature interrupted my pleasure and I went out to the necessary house behind the tavern , nothing more than a hole in the ground enclosed by a shabby wooden palisade and a door which bolted from the inside . |
20 | If you guys really want to be anything more than a footnote in the annals of British history get this — ‘ Egalitarianism is for Losers ’ . |
21 | But , thanks to a combination of high interest rates on traditional deposit accounts over much of this period , coupled to a distinct lack of publicity for SAYE , it has been relegated to little more than a footnote in the long list of savings options . |
22 | To Rumi the tears are far more than a guide in the spiritual quest ; they are the very water of life . |
23 | The thought was scarcely born before James Lambert himself appeared , hardly more than a shadow in the dusk , but unmistakable as he walked past the pile of kegs . |
24 | The initial , almost instantaneous , elongation produced by the application of the tensile stress is inversely proportional to the rigidity or modulus of the material , i.e. an elastomer with a low modulus stretches considerably more than a material in the glassy state with a high modulus . |
25 | Cunliffe admitted that his knowledge of Germany was inadequate and that his figure was ‘ little more than a shot in the dark as he had been pressed to arrive at it between a Saturday and a Monday ’ . |
26 | But the community care reforms imply more than a shift in the location of care . |
27 | Anyway , why put a new straitjacket around the economy until recovery is more than a twinkle in the market 's eye ? |
28 | [ music ] But as this music fades into the Interlude the E/F figure is suddenly no more than a detail in the seascape , a gull 's cry perhaps or a slight turbulence on the water [ 3 ] . |
29 | ‘ Today , ’ Manescu responded , and closed his lips in a tight line which was little more than a gash in the brown hawk-like face . |
30 | It might even be possible to create a ‘ place in the sun ’ , where car parking has been placed underground because a place in the sun for townsfolk is more important than a place in the sun for cars ( e ) . |