Example sentences of "[art] [adj] than a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , after a certain point , education becomes more a form of consumption for the individual than a form of investment for increasing his earnings further . |
| 2 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 3 | The masquerade of camp becomes less a self-concealment than a kind of attack , and untruth a virtue : many a young man , says Wilde , ‘ starts with the natural gift of exaggeration which , if encouraged could flourish . |
| 4 | The third of my wildlife gift ideas is a magnifying glass , or better still , one of the new battery-powered pocket microscopes , no bigger than a couple of fountain pens . |
| 5 | When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
| 8 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The legs are flailing wildly — tiny stretches of insect flesh — no thicker than a hair to my naked eye , but obviously larger than life to this poor , wretched creature , who had the misfortune to interrupt my writing of the BBC WILDLIFE Nature Essay 1991 to ( or not to be ) . |
| 12 | Woodland Hills , California-based American Mobile Systems Inc reports that it has had an offer from LIN Broadcasting Corp 's Transit Communications unit to buy not less than 8.75m newly issued American Mobile shares for $8.50 each ; Fleet Call Inc has currently bought 714,286 shares of its common for $5m as part of a previously announced agreement for Fleet call to buy no less than a majority of American Mobile 's shares at $7 each ; the new offer assumes that the Fleet Call deal will be completed as planned . |
| 13 | As Beswick ( 1977 ) notes , such a development requires no less than a revolution in most people 's perception of a library from that of " storehouse to learning centre " . |
| 14 | Indeed , a study in Hackney in 1990 of the work of mental health professionals working in a community team supporting people at home found that no less than a quarter of their working time was spent on working out welfare entitlements . |
| 15 | No less than a quarter of the non-agricultural work-force was consigned to the residuum of unskilled labour , excluded not only from political life but also from social rewards . |
| 16 | Afterwards , looking back , Sara knew that if she were asked she would put a circle round this evening , this particular point in time , and say , " That 's when the heartache began , " a tiny little pain to begin with , no more than a tremor of consciousness , the veriest pinprick . |
| 17 | In 1791 the Windsor theatre , then no more than a shed in a muddy field , was bought from Francis Waldron [ q.v. ] , writer and actor . |
| 18 | A stone rolled free and splashed into the water no more than a yard from Trent 's feet . |
| 19 | It consisted mainly of a large area of more or less flat heathland that was in places marshy and out of which rose the only hill to be found here , the broad , low Knamber Foin that looked from a distance no more than a heap of stones . |
| 20 | After the storms of bitterness , this really was a tremendous volte-face , but no more than a barometer of the changes within Nancy herself . |
| 21 | Indeed , we must suspect that under the interests theory the criterion of personal responsibility is no more than a function of social policy : the more highly the interest is regarded , the closer we are drawn towards unlimited personal responsibility . |
| 22 | Egoism , then , is no more than a terminus towards which interacting individuals are pushed by competition . |
| 23 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 24 | In many cases the accompaniment may be no more than a doubling of the melody ( at the unison or octave , or even in the bass ) with added chordal harmony . |
| 25 | Although urinary incontinence may be no more than a nuisance in some women , for many it is far more troublesome . |
| 26 | She likes it here but that place she 's got is no more than a hole in the wall . |
| 27 | For some this means no more than a trip to the supermarket and a loading-up of the metal basket ; for others it means being lost on a plain in Greece , in the dark , in snow , in the rain , and finding what you seek only by some rare trick such as barking like a dog . |
| 28 | And within was empty darkness , fenced off by no more than a ridge of soil . |
| 29 | Some local people also work close to the church , daily setting out their stalls of fruit , vegetables or fish in the narrow alleyways , the vicoli , which spread out from the tiny square , no more than a broadening of the road really , before the church . |
| 30 | Maria Magdalena and Caribbean Queen cleared Key Canaka thirty metres apart with no more than a bowsprit between them . |