Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adj -er] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it true that the mind was wiser than the body ? |
| 2 | It was still dark and the weather was wet and foggy , but the blue fog inside the car was worse as the Substitute lit his third pungent little Tuscan cigar . |
| 3 | The speed of light was slower than the intelligence of the clerical network in matters of gossip . |
| 4 | The diocese was larger than the diocese of Durham and more varied ; industry on Teesside , moors of the North Riding , wolds of the East Riding , the plain of York , cities like York and Hull . |
| 5 | Hosiers were accused of making too little allowance for normal waste , so that they could fine knitters whose returned work was lighter than the yarn which had been given out . |
| 6 | The officer 's mess was smaller than the sergeant 's . |
| 7 | Bismuth is still used by some practitioners as an adjunct to penicillin therapy , but in most centres the advent of penicillin and other antibiotics has , at long last , brought an end to the many centuries during which the treatment of syphilis was worse than the disease itself . |
| 8 | The sound was louder than the bus of cars along the highway I had left . |
| 9 | It could n't be the water table , because the site was higher than the rest of the garden . |
| 10 | The great advantage — let us talk about the advantages — to many single people was that the community charge was fairer than the rating system . |
| 11 | This room was smaller than the hall , but I could see many unusual and interesting things in it . |
| 12 | His brown was whiter than the hoar , A beard of freshest snow he wore , And round about him , snow-flake starred , A red horse-blanket from the yard . |
| 13 | The moon was fuller than the night before , but its light was diffused by cloud . |
| 14 | Firstly , there are the so-called pronouns of laziness ( Geach , 1962 : 125ff ) , as in Karttunen 's well-known sentence ( see Lyons , 1977a : 673ff ) : ( 93 ) The man who gave his paycheck to his wife was wiser than the man who gave it to his mistress where it is not co-referential with his paycheck , but refers to what a repetition of that NP would have referred to ( namely the paycheck of the man whose mistress got it ) if it had occurred in place of it . |
| 15 | And the whole was greater than the sum of its parts . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The value of coconut products consumed within the island was larger than the value of exports , but substantial amounts of coconut oil and copra were sent overseas . |
| 18 | Even enduring anger was better than the redness , even anger aimed by a telepath . |
| 19 | ‘ Another means society employs to control hazard — to prevent a freedom of choice in its slaves — is to tell them that the past was nobler than the present . |
| 20 | Erm , er er the man was bigger than the boy |
| 21 | A man was bigger than the boy , good . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Situations vacant in particular showed a very , a very big drop and erm , and in fact we , the yield was lower than the year before , but we 've er , continued with our pac press rationalization programme and er , I think as I mentioned at the interims , the Basildon Evening Echo is now printed on the F T's presses , which incidentally has got the contract to and is printing er , . |
| 24 | The Kha-Khan 's chamber was bigger than the anteroom . |
| 25 | The fact that her stomach no longer turned over when he looked at her came as a surprise and disappointment — even unrequited love was better than no love at all . |
| 26 | His voice was softer than a goose 's neck , almost inaudible , and he kept his eyes turned away . |
| 27 | The Barman 's voice was lower than an ankle bracelet on a flat-footed pygmy . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For example , Sperber and Wilson suggest that in [ 25 ] it would be consistent with the principle of relevance to assume that the speaker wanted to indicate that the walk was longer than the hearer would have otherwise thought . |
| 30 | My stomach was tighter than a baby 's fist |