Example sentences of "[adv] [adj -er] than a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Polymers do not form perfectly elastic solids , as a limited amount of bond rotation can occur in the glass which allows slight plastic deformation ; this makes them somewhat tougher than an inorganic glass . |
| 2 | This is a very compact plane , not much bigger than a smoothing plane , weighing in at 1.6kg . |
| 3 | Each drawer , not much larger than a small matchbox , held the body of a wasp which had been through the Factory . |
| 4 | A Roman legion was somewhat larger than a modern peacetime brigade in the British Army — six thousand troops . |
| 5 | But , even allowing for the conditions , Luxton and David Pears were never much better than a lumbering link . |
| 6 | If you 're going away , wear clear or pale nail varnish — it will look much better than a dark colour with a tan . |
| 7 | Well , the studies that I 've been involved in , the computer has performed certainly as well as a consultant , and at times much better than a junior doctor in the particular situation that I 'm talking about . |
| 8 | Legalised exports of waste from rich countries to poorer ones are much better than a black market . |
| 9 | Now we 've got a company secretary he is er , an F C I S Chartered Institute Secretaries that 's much better than a chartered accountant , they 're no damn good as secretaries , right ! |
| 10 | You will need the smaller 2″ diameter template supplied with Warhammer — the catapult is much smaller than a regular stone thrower so the template is smaller too . |
| 11 | The Germans had no idea who she was and the villagers from whom she had been begging food had not betrayed her ; she was allowed to go without suffering anything much worse than a slapped face and an hour 's sarcastic , sneering interrogation . |
| 12 | At the same time both syllabus and materials would emphasise that the primary curriculum is seen as something much wider than a mere list of topics to be covered in class . |
| 13 | For instance , a page with an illustration on it — a solid page with a picture — the men charge as solid type and if the page is a little bigger than an ordinary page , they will charge extra for putting that page in , besides charging it as setting up so many thousand letters … |
| 14 | This recognition , combined with the notion that life has to be somehow larger than a physical notion , meant that this approach has been broadened . |
| 15 | The piece of wood , hardly bigger than a large rhubarb leaf was lightly aground . |
| 16 | Most proteins , on which all the functions of Earthly life depend , are denatured — which essentially means ‘ cooked ’ — if their temperature is raised above about 45°C ; hardly hotter than a hot bath . |
| 17 | There was always better than an even chance of something like this happening . |
| 18 | A p-channel transistor , relying on hole mobility , is usually slower than an n-channel device . |
| 19 | Our most disastrous Rannoch cottage was little better than a derelict shack , owned by an hotel in Aberfeldy . |
| 20 | Only 1,860cc , it produces — on a good day — all of 38 hp , swings a prop only marginally bigger than a self-important toothpick , and makes the most incredible racket whilst it 's running . |
| 21 | Then there is the fishing cat Felis viverrina , meaning the ferret-like cat , which frequents swampy ground , has slightly webbed feet and can , as its name suggests , hook fish out of shallow water with its claws ; the flat-headed cat , Felis plamiceps , of Malaya , Borneo and Sumatra which preys on frogs , fish and small birds and the marbled cat , Felis marmorata , which lives in Sumatra and Borneo and is only slightly larger than a domestic cat . |
| 22 | Oh a great help to sandwiches and a sit down meal at dinner at table with the family , it was far better than a dry sandwich eaten in the barn . |
| 23 | Even with the cost of detailed research , a set of reconstruction drawings of a site is usually far cheaper than a physical reconstruction ; in any case , such detailed drawings are generally needed as preparation for a physical reconstruction . |
| 24 | It is often better than a standard learner , such as the Boltzmann algorithm , because the genetic algorithm keeps note of a large set of states , one for each string . |
| 25 | Either he had perfected the performance over the years to ward off sympathy from the able-bodied , or he was hiding something far worse than a self-destructive youth . |
| 26 | Yeah right blacker than a black man . |
| 27 | And to a penitent soldier a crusade was even better than an unarmed pilgrimage . |
| 28 | They are extremely difficult to hand-hold , which means that a mounting must always be carried around , and it should be rather firmer than a simple attachment to a camera tripod , because the binoculars are inevitably heavy . |
| 29 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 30 | Words can not express the sadness of seeing a teenager who looks barely older than a young child suffering from severe malnutrition , but there are the wonderful moments such as a child who suffered tremendous burns after a candle fell and set fire to her night-dress ; after months of careful dressing and cleaning her wounds have virtually healed — without the clinic the little girl would almost certainly have died . |