Example sentences of "[is] [adj] than a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For me , this job is easier than a game of croquet … |
| 2 | If you want to en try and ensure that you 're going to have a self sustained community , one hundred percent , you make sure that presumably you 've got a show case cinema with fifteen screens there , er a B and Q , erm a whole range of of facilities that nobody ever needs leave , erm erm erm er that new settlement , the reality of the real world of course is that all settlements to a greater or lesser degree , er have a relationship with other er larger scale settlements , now then let's look at the new settlement , fourteen hundred dwellings , we estimate that that is going to be of the order of around three thousand three hundred people , now that is sizeable , it is not small , it is larger than a number of the small market towns er in North Yorkshire , like Boroughbridge , Settle , it is a significant development erm erm and within it erm there will be a requirement er be a requirement for a a a primary school , it justifies that . |
| 3 | Well it 's better than a kick in the teeth is n't it ? |
| 4 | You have to admit , she 's better than a kick in the wot-nots ! |
| 5 | I think moving 's better than a week of I V P . |
| 6 | A grand view of Horse Guards Parade — oh well it 's better than a view of John and Norma Major . |
| 7 | This is better than a night at the Follies . |
| 8 | What is better than a run in the car followed by a good meal in a country inn or a pleasant roadhouse ? |
| 9 | Probably the best advice is to be wary of any project that is more than a couple of years old , and to be extremely wary of any that were published more than five years ago . |
| 10 | In the West , a car is more than a way of travelling ; it represents freedom and flexibility and is a potent status symbol . |
| 11 | British Coal , one of the few companies still nationalised , has the unenviable task of proving to its customers that it is more than a dinosaur of the industrial revolution , slouching towards privatisation and a slow demise . |
| 12 | The arrangements for the new style NHS assume a continuing need for a local organisation which is more than a tier of management . |
| 13 | ‘ There is more than a debt in it , ’ said Cadfael . |
| 14 | There is more than a grain of truth in the observation by A. P. Herbert that royal commissions were usually appointed ‘ not so much for digging up the truth , as for digging it in . ’ |
| 15 | There is more than a grain of truth in this scenario , despite Mrs Thatcher 's undoubted role in the creation of the new British Library building . |
| 16 | It is not entirely true that people are as handicapped as we , the comparatively unhandicapped , are prepared to handicap them , but there is more than a grain of truth in that statement . |
| 17 | Byron may have been exaggerating a little when he wrote , ‘ Man 's love is of man 's life a thing apart , 'T IS woman 's whole existence ’ , but obviously there is more than a grain of truth in it , and not necessarily a painful or unacceptable one either . |
| 18 | ‘ The nearest security force base is more than a quarter of a mile away and was manifestly not the target of the attack . ’ |
| 19 | It follows that if there is a small bald patch ( or a patch with grooves less than 1.6 mm deep ) 4 cm in diameter on a tread width of 12 cm an offence is committed for 4 cm is more than a quarter of the 12 cm width of tread . |
| 20 | It is sufficient to contravene this regulation where the patch is more than a quarter of the breadth of the tread , because there can not be at least three-quarters of good tread around the whole circumference of the tyre in such a case . |
| 21 | The nearest security force base is more than a quarter of a mile away and was manifestly not the target of the attack . |
| 22 | A ‘ venture ’ is more than a holiday with a Christian emphasis . |
| 23 | Contrasts , however , is more than a manifesto for the Gothic : it is , implicitly , a diagnosis of the social and cultural evils of the time , and a proposal for political and social change . |
| 24 | The truth is more than a recital of the visible . |
| 25 | Being healthy is more than a question of not being ill . |
| 26 | Being healthy is more than a question of not being ill . |
| 27 | All this , in the end , is more than a question of style : it is a question of judgement and of taste , and ultimately of morality . |
| 28 | To the people of England , it is more than a question of who administers local government : the lines on the map , the cricket teams , the Lords Lieutenants and signposts are important . |
| 29 | ‘ We was in t'workhouse together and 'e 'll do as 'e 's told , which is more than a lot of 'usbands does . ’ |
| 30 | The Ghost of Banquo is more than a figment of Macbeth 's imagination : it stands in some way in relation to his conscience . |