Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , erm when I started digging up I was smaller than the fork , the fork was , yes ! |
| 2 | The Paris-based European end of the Software Publishers Association reports that the European market for personal computer software products grew 19% by revenue last year , to $1,700m , which was greater than the 14% increase registered in the US . |
| 3 | The craze hit England in 1951 , when musicians such as Larry Adler , Steve Race and Humphrey Lyttelton ( the latter emulating a traditional jazz band in his One Man Went To Blow ) attempted to make a whole which was greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 4 | A section across the north-eastern side of the town near Gunnings Bridge revealed a clay bank , dated to the late second century , which was earlier than the masonry wall constructed in front of it . |
| 5 | I occasionally got ten shillings , which was more than a week 's as much a week 's wages . |
| 6 | Phyllisia faced many trials while she was growing up in Harlem , the first occurred when she was mocked by other pupils in her class , they called her ‘ Monkey chaser ’ and ‘ Teachers pet ’ because she was cleverer than the others . |
| 7 | But she was worse than a headmistress ; she was the Rector 's wife . |
| 8 | She was stronger than a roach , as strong as an ox . |
| 9 | She was deeper than the house , level with worms , all the dead things that were put into the ground . |
| 10 | She was smaller than the Andalusian by a hand , yet her grace , her power were undeniable . |
| 11 | And of one who was wiser than the rest . |
| 12 | Jacques Villon , who was older than the others and seems on that account to have enjoyed a certain authority , is generally credited with having suggested the title . |
| 13 | Next to Perdita rode Mike Waterlane on Dopey , a deceptively sleepy-looking pony , who was faster than a Ferrari and nipped all the opposition ponies in the line-out . |
| 14 | A father who loved you was better than no father at all . ’ |
| 15 | He says he had a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the operation but it was better than no odds at all . |
| 16 | It was better than a pantomime , but with one big difference . |
| 17 | It was better than a cockfight , and even better than the Battle . |
| 18 | They had made love that morning and it was better than the day before . |
| 19 | That had been a futile crusade , he knew now , but it was better than the lie Seth offered , the lie that concealed the end of all things . |
| 20 | Everyone said it was better than the Ring-o-Roses , where there was no discipline of any kind whatsoever . |
| 21 | It was better than an analgesic in her blood . |
| 22 | Yeah but it was bigger than the plate . |
| 23 | It offered no defence ; and defence was needed , for on the opposite side of the yard a wall ran right up to the house and although it was lower than the roof an agile man might easily scramble from it up on to the roof itself . |
| 24 | It was lonelier than the sea , somehow . |
| 25 | Over the same period , real wages fell by 18.5 per cent ( in 1970 it was estimated by DEPLAN , the government planning agency , that there was 25 per cent excess capacity in the economy ) , the government deficit increased rapidly until in 1973 it was greater than the revenue of the government , the rate of growth of fixed investment fell dramatically and the balance of payments was in deficit , on both currant and capital account , throughout the whole period . |
| 26 | The surplus of 38 had to be considered because it was greater than the difference , 6 , between Trimble 525 , and Robinson , 519 , and might conceivably have affected the order in which they were to be eliminated . |
| 27 | It was blacker than a coal heaver 's codpiece in a Blitz blackout . |
| 28 | It was worse than a balls-up . |
| 29 | It was worse than a mountain — it was a maze ; and how intricate its twists I soon discovered . |
| 30 | It could be measured by the width of a coach with a man walking at each side , but even so it was wider than the streets and alleys leading off from both sides of it . |