Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adj -er] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | His voice was softer than a goose 's neck , almost inaudible , and he kept his eyes turned away . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | My stomach was tighter than a baby 's fist |
6 | 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 ? |
7 | The man had white bone things above his eyes and under the mouth so that his face was longer than a face should be . |
8 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |