Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adj -er] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you 're better than a master you still have to wait . |
| 2 | You have to admit , she 's better than a kick in the wot-nots ! |
| 3 | But she was worse than a headmistress ; she was the Rector 's wife . |
| 4 | She was stronger than a roach , as strong as an ox . |
| 5 | Erm but they are colder than a caravan ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well it 's better than a kick in the teeth is n't it ? |
| 8 | Incidentally , it 's better than a railway hut , and perfect for a party . ’ |
| 9 | It 's better than a letter to hear her voice . ’ |
| 10 | A grand view of Horse Guards Parade — oh well it 's better than a view of John and Norma Major . |
| 11 | It 's nicer than a satsuma really . |
| 12 | As a sport it 's safer than a lot of other outdoor sports , including rock climbing . |
| 13 | But I do n't feel as if , I mean it 's it 's not the most pleasant thing in the world but it 's certainly fucking sa it 's safer than a lot of their more easier to put on and take off than and fucking safer and more effective than a lot of their contraception devices . |
| 14 | It 's smaller than a sheet of A4 paper , and is only 1.25 inches thick , so it 's an ideal travelling companion . |
| 15 | But please leave out the 0–60 in 7.5 seconds , forget that it 's faster than a Ferrari Mondial from 50 to 70 m.p.h . |
| 16 | It is higher than a year ago in every EFTA country and in every G7 country except Japan . |
| 17 | What stopped me in my tracks was a sentence reading , ‘ The dung beetle program really can not be justified on the grounds that it is cheaper than a horse ’ . |
| 18 | For her part Piaf once told her sister , ‘ You ca n't have a house without a man , Momone , it is worse than a day without sunshine . ’ |
| 19 | — the prefix dis — of disobey is not a lexical unit because , although it is a semantic constituent , it is smaller than a word . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | At 3.9m long it is shorter than a slalom kayak but has all the features of the original Kiwi , making it ideal for family and disabled use . |
| 22 | It was better than a pantomime , but with one big difference . |
| 23 | It was better than a cockfight , and even better than the Battle . |
| 24 | It was blacker than a coal heaver 's codpiece in a Blitz blackout . |
| 25 | It was worse than a balls-up . |
| 26 | It was worse than a mountain — it was a maze ; and how intricate its twists I soon discovered . |
| 27 | It was taller than a man , and big enough to accommodate four or five people inside . |
| 28 | It was smaller than a man 's thumb nail and Nicholson held it between the thumb and finger of his right hand with surprising delicacy . |
| 29 | Because it was easier than a bra and panties she had donned an ivory , gossamer-light teddy . |
| 30 | And he was cleverer than a bag of monkeys , as his mother used to say , and would outwit them all . |