Example sentences of "[noun] than [art] usual " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Normally , a flock of almost 3000 sheep was kept , producing a better grade of wool than the usual run of scraggy downland animals . |
| 2 | Owen Teale 's comic and original Hotspur brings much more to the part than the usual hellcat warrior . |
| 3 | The greater authority of the aggressor male perpetrator is further emphasised by the fact that , of the assaults against males , those coming to the notice of the newspapers largely concerned a much older set of defendants than the usual run of offenders coming before the courts . |
| 4 | Five years ago this would not have been possible , and it is a measure of the success of the Cleveland Classics series of concerts that a mass audience has been gradually persuaded to sample music of a more controversial stamp than the usual ‘ pops ’ . |
| 5 | This in turn causes far more crack-ups than the usual pressures of being constantly in the public eye , a symptom that has now been identified as charity-fatigue . |
| 6 | In music for court entertainments , masques and dramatic intermedii , a group of Florentine musicians influenced by a learned Humanist , Girolamo Mei , who had come to the correct conclusion that ancient Greek music had been monodic , mixed madrigals with a new kind of monody in ‘ another way of singing than the usual ’ ( un altro modo di cantare che l'ordinario ) . |
| 7 | Could three or four large water tanks and some carefully arranged bricks or pots produce far better results than the usual tanks in your fishhouse ? |
| 8 | But live performance gives it ten times more urgency and energy than the usual hollow rave PA , mimed to the record . |
| 9 | ‘ HEMISPHERE ’ AND ‘ The Traveller ’ are more hard house than the usual techno artfulness that Container have become renowned for , and will fit into any set for DJs on the current UK house tip . |