Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adj -er] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a baby seat is safer than a carrycot for your baby . |
| 2 | A research programme is better than a rival if it is more progressive , the progressive nature of a programme depending on its degree of coherence and the extent to which it has led to successful novel predictions , as discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Failing that , a large room with a high ceiling is better than a cupboard . |
| 5 | Their bite is worse than a horse 's — |
| 6 | For me , this job is easier than a game of croquet … |
| 7 | It has been a long and winding road for the much-travelled Quinn to achieve fully-fledged Premier League status , even though his career record is better than a goal every two games . |
| 8 | A record is better than a cassette . |
| 9 | A kick is stronger than a punch and has a much greater reach . |
| 10 | The pot was taller than a man , and a prisoner had to climb up on a table in order to extract a sample with a huge ladle . |
| 11 | They are then encouraged to notice and talk about what happens , e.g. a plastic boat floats , but if filled with water , it sinks ; or paper is lighter than a stone , but when it is wet through , it sinks . |
| 12 | Kuhn mentions a number of criteria that can be used in assessing whether one theory is better than a rival . |
| 13 | We have considered various analyses of the kind of criteria that enable individuals or groups to judge whether one theory is better than a rival , or whether or not a particular body of knowledge is scientific . |
| 14 | If hesitating between a peach and a pear you languidly inspect sniff and fondle the fruit before deciding for the pear , and eat it slowly with a look of bliss , no one who has left behind the absolutism of childhood ( ‘ Anyone can see that a peach is nicer than a pear ’ ) will doubt that you made the best possible choice between the flavours ; the rightness of the choice , and the objective fact that in the fullest awareness of the two flavours you were spontaneously moved to take the pear , are two sides of the same coin . |
| 15 | The reference centre policy also assumes that the average cost ( ie , per patient seen ) of hospital care is greater than the cost at a health centre , and that a reference centre is cheaper than a hospital . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And later she had found that his body , scarred as it was , was better than the one which she had imagined for him , as a living and breathing man was better than a marble statue or painting , and her vision had lacked life . |
| 18 | His voice was softer than a goose 's neck , almost inaudible , and he kept his eyes turned away . |
| 19 | A ship is worse than a gaol . |
| 20 | And that mud wagon 's lighter than a Concord . " |
| 21 | Unemployment is greater than a year ago in every country in EFTA and in every G7 country except the Netherlands . |
| 22 | It would be nice to say that the tiny frogs thought long and hard about the new flower , about life in the old flower , about the need to explore , about the possibility that the world was bigger than a pool with petals around the edge . |
| 23 | My stomach was tighter than a baby 's fist |
| 24 | Manager Frank Gray said : ‘ I think the standard of the Third Division is higher than a lot of people expected . |
| 25 | Nomish sense of smell is sharper than a fox 's ; it was all Masklin could do not to dribble . |
| 26 | But most of the length is taken up by the cabin and since the Twingo is taller than a Sierra its packaging prowess is , perhaps , easier to appreciate . |
| 27 | As a rule of thumb , if the training programme for a so called user friendly system is longer than a working week , steer clear of it ! |
| 28 | The Madness place in history was safer than a bet on a six-legged greyhound , so why did the once-magnificent seven and now decidedly muddled seven decide to blow their credibility and slop into the comeback trail ? |
| 29 | is the most common way to buy Derby cheese , which is a great pity as a mature , plain Derby is stronger than a one-year-old Cheddar , but very difficult to find . |
| 30 | When fully grown , a lion is bigger than a lioness . |