Example sentences of "be bigger than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a shame that the players feel they can put sponsors to ransom like this and that they are bigger than the sport . ’ |
| 2 | Can you see any pieces that are bigger than the quarter ? |
| 3 | ‘ The Soup Dragons are bigger than The Charlatans over here , ’ says Tim . |
| 4 | ‘ The Soup Dragons are bigger than The Charlatans over here , ’ says Tim . |
| 5 | I was reading the things and I said it was a bigger upstairs is , are bigger than the downstairs . |
| 6 | Sockets are bigger than the chips normally so |
| 7 | There are people out there who 've got problems that are bigger than the average household can deal with and erm I think , therefore , we 're looking for more institutionalized forms of help and folks like this particular character — I almost said his name — almost need to be made to accept that kind of help . |
| 8 | Sessions 's show endorses Petherbridge 's point as forcefully as possible , reminding us that , in 20th century drama , the big stars have always been bigger than the big roles . |
| 9 | Linde 's idea of a slow breaking of symmetry was very good , but I later realized that his bubbles would have to have been bigger than the size of the universe at the time ! |
| 10 | The gap between the different measures of GDP has widened , for example , while the balancing item in the balance of payments has actually been bigger than the current-account deficit itself . |
| 11 | Although my hand may be bigger than a lot of people 's , it 's still a hand — it 's not a block of wood . |
| 12 | T : I 've got a lot more respect for them now because I met one of them at a party once and he told me they 're going to be bigger than The Beatles — in all seriousness . |
| 13 | As a consequence , the functional modules of the brain may well be bigger than the individual areas of the cortex or subcortical nuclei that are the conventional units of analysis . |
| 14 | We 're going to get more so it 's going to be a bigger piece that that is n't it it 's going to be bigger than the quarter . |
| 15 | The plaintiff is playing with higher stakes because the cost penalty is likely to be bigger than the amount by which the defendant might overestimate the claim . |
| 16 | But the windows were bigger than a small cottage would hold . |
| 17 | The boys , who were bigger than the Brownies , ran full-tilt into them . |
| 18 | The big kind were bigger than the common chimpanzees at the zoo , but not as big as gorillas . |
| 19 | He opened up his shirt , and showed us his breasts and pointed out that they were bigger than the woman 's . |
| 20 | The extra detail visible in the monkey 's brain might just be a consequence of it being bigger than the rat 's , but a comparison between the somatosensory cortices of the two animals shows that this is n't so , for this time it is in the rat that the extra detail is visible . |
| 21 | I replied that there was this flaw about the bubbles being bigger than the universe , but that the basic idea of a slow breaking of symmetry was very good . |
| 22 | Either the building was much bigger than it looked , or he was now on some wide underground level without having gone down any steps , or — as he was beginning to suspect — the inner dimensions of the place disobeyed a fairly basic rule of architecture by being bigger than the outside . |
| 23 | If a work is bigger than a man , he wrote , it can mean either that it is trying to surpass man or that it is not afraid of being looked at . |
| 24 | When fully grown , a lion is bigger than a lioness . |
| 25 | CRIME ‘ The prison population of the USA is bigger than the civilian population of seven member states of the United Nations , and better behaved than four of them . ’ |
| 26 | Previously they have kept a vice-like grip on the national purse , pointing out that the government 's debt of ¥165 trillion ( $1.2 trillion ) is bigger than the combined debt of all the world 's poor countries together . |
| 27 | The real motives behind their view of ‘ Europe ’ are clear , however , when the Germans remind them ( as Genscher occasionally does ) that Europe is bigger than the Franco-German relationship : the former foreign minister , Jean François-Poncet , called this ‘ a hypocritical way of trying to abandon the Europe of Jean Monnet ’ . |
| 28 | Of the two dozen nearest galaxies , only one — the giant spiral Andromeda — is bigger than the Milky Way . |
| 29 | He became ‘ The Lone Ranger ’ a player who seemed to want to disprove the old disciplinary theory that no player is bigger than the club . |
| 30 | In the case of the Finsbury Park debâcle , the discount is bigger than the price of the Madstock ticket . |