Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I can never convince you that I am other than a spirit , for what I have to tell you is this : that I have come from two hundred years in the future to speak to you — to sit here by this window and talk as we talk now ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am older than the king ; and grief has made me a man . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I must say , ’ the woman said to the man , ‘ I 'm surprised than an animal like that can appreciate this film . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah , erm when I started digging up I was smaller than the fork , the fork was , yes ! |
| 5 | You are more than a grandmother . |
| 6 | No doubt you 're very switched on , when it comes to good productivity but in case , like me , you are more than a touch muddy , here are some helpful hints . |
| 7 | ‘ No , Miss Eyre , you are less than a servant , because you do not work , ’ replied Miss Abbott . |
| 8 | But if you are less than a writer of near genius , can you by simply describing what your policemen do , hold your readers spellbound ? |
| 9 | If anyone is less than a metre behind you , you lose a point ; if you are less than a metre behind anyone else , you gain a point . " |
| 10 | ‘ Ask away , oh anxious one , for you are lovelier than an aardvark and I can deny you nothing , ’ said the seal , whisking the waves into a fountain with her mighty tail . |
| 11 | The attitude they have towards you is terrible , like you 're lower than the dirt they tread on . |
| 12 | Even if you 're better than a master you still have to wait . |
| 13 | Now all I can say about that is it seems to me you 're braver than the rest of us but we try to keep out of it . |
| 14 | You have to admit , she 's better than a kick in the wot-nots ! |
| 15 | ‘ She 's tougher than the rest of us put together . |
| 16 | But she was worse than a headmistress ; she was the Rector 's wife . |
| 17 | She was deeper than the house , level with worms , all the dead things that were put into the ground . |
| 18 | She was smaller than the Andalusian by a hand , yet her grace , her power were undeniable . |
| 19 | A father who loved you was better than no father at all . ’ |
| 20 | Heavy foods are soothing with their easy , empty calories ; we are lovers full of sugar , we are higher than the ceiling . |
| 21 | we 're , we 're more than a quarter . |
| 22 | Of course they are better than the chip , chip shop are n't they ? |
| 23 | Erm but they are colder than a caravan ! |
| 24 | It is a shame that the players feel they can put sponsors to ransom like this and that they are bigger than the sport . ’ |
| 25 | They are more than a spark but less than a small fire and exporters have high hopes . |
| 26 | These sparkling crystal green pools look ideal for swimming , but beware dangerous undercurrents , the fact that they are deeper than the look , a temperature cold enough to freeze-dry your internal organs , and an audience of 50 tourists who will stand and watch as you try to get out of the water and back into your underpants with some dignity and without swearing . |
| 27 | All these can cause a stress on the body and if they are stronger than the body 's power to withstand them , then imbalances will be caused , initially at the level under stress . |
| 28 | Oddly enough , although they are younger than the rugose corals , the aragonite composing them does not preserve very well , and it is easier to find beautifully preserved examples of the older Rugosa . |
| 29 | or maybe twenty per cent , ten per cent think they 're better than the teacher thinks they are , ten per cent think that |
| 30 | They rap , they rock ( rack ? rop ? ) , they 're tighter than a miner 's shopping budget , they scare the shit out of the entire convention with a brutality that could put Rollins to shame and they are so flabbergastingly right for 1992 they ca n't possibly fail to sell , ooooh , millions . |