Example sentences of "[adj -er] than a [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Northern Echo prompted a public outcry last year when it revealed how a night in the cells at Bishop Auckland police station cost £200 dearer than a room at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 2 | A painting of a male head , which is almost certainly a study for the figure of the sailor that Picasso originally intended to place in the centre of the composition , while it is bolder and sketchier than a work like the Self-Portrait , shows all the earlier Iberian devices . |
| 3 | Handsome young rascal with hands that had never lifted anything heavier than a pen by the look of them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well it 's better than a kick in the teeth is n't it ? |
| 7 | Better than a kick in the teeth in n it ? |
| 8 | You have to admit , she 's better than a kick in the wot-nots ! |
| 9 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 10 | What is better than a run in the car followed by a good meal in a country inn or a pleasant roadhouse ? |
| 11 | Greg had been little better than a crook on the business front — and he had very nearly dragged her father — and his stupendous talent — down with him . |
| 12 | This is better than a night at the Follies . |
| 13 | And he was young enough to hope for something better than a pat on the head from the Leaderene . |
| 14 | Well that , thought Dalgliesh wryly , was better than a note in the parish magazine , a telephone call to the daily papers or a sermon next Sunday on the phenomenon of stigmata and the inscrutable wisdom of providence . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Not much worse than a tumble in the hunting field . ’ |
| 17 | But I tend to think he is probably fitter than a lot of the other players . |
| 18 | A cruise descent is kinder than a glide for the engine : try to make this your normal procedure except when inappropriate e.g. on a practice forced landing . |
| 19 | The radial shields are rounded triangular to teardrop shaped , slightly greater than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , distally contiguous except for a row of granules which runs along the suture . |