Example sentences of "[det] [prep] a [noun sg] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was very unbending , this young boss of hers — not even a smile , and his speech was more like that of a headmaster than a colleague . |
| 2 | The face was fine and a little gaunt , more that of a poet than a soldier . |
| 3 | Like Anne , Maureen had often felt uneasy about Sarah 's relationship with Terry and thought that she seemed to regard him more as a brother than a lover . |
| 4 | At £110 Alfonzo is beyond most piggy-banks , so look on him more as an investment than a bedfellow . |
| 5 | This is soccer , BSkyB-style , more of a circus than a ‘ Whole new ball game ’ . |
| 6 | Linda says : ‘ What David has gone through makes him more of a person than a lot of other people . |
| 7 | Kano regarded his judo as more of a sport than a fighting system . |
| 8 | AIESEC Debate : ‘ This house believes that a University degree is more of a hindrance than a help to a career in British industry . ’ |
| 9 | However , he could also be a tiresome prankster and thus often more of a hindrance than a help about the house — Briggs tells of practical jokes such as ‘ blowing ashes over shelled oats spread out to dry ’ ( from The Fairies in Tradition and Literature ) . |
| 10 | Later that month the Union 's largest society , AIESEC , the international organisation for students of all subjects who are interested in business and management , organised a debate on the motion that ‘ This House believes that a university degree is more of a hindrance than a help to a career in British industry ’ . |
| 11 | But I thought that 'd be more of a hindrance than a help |
| 12 | Middle-class professional man ; solicitor perhaps ; denizen of pine-and-heather country ; pepper-and-salt tweeds ; a moustache hinting — perhaps fraudulently — at a military past ; a sensible wife ; perhaps a little boating at weekends ; more of a gin than a whisky man ; and so on ? |
| 13 | The trouble is that in England a tomato good enough to be eaten raw and unadorned is becoming a good deal more of a rarity than a ripe avocado , and nearly as elusive as a perfect fresh peach or purple fig . |
| 14 | It 's more of a noise than a sound sometimes , but in a way it 's how a proper bass should sound . |
| 15 | Speculation that its soldiers would attack the town of Pailin on the Thai border has died down , as it became clear that to hold Pailin would be more of a liability than an asset . |
| 16 | It is more of a liability than an amenity . |
| 17 | Soviet influence , moreover , was overwhelmingly concentrated among the poorest and least important countries in terms of population and GNP , whose support was often more of a liability than an asset ; the world 's major military and industrial powers , by contrast , were all allied or aligned with the United States . |
| 18 | Although he was one of her most enthusiastic supporters , Mrs Thatcher often found he was more of a liability than an asset . |
| 19 | This time I 'm seeing a woman , who is more of a therapist than an analyst ; I prefer this because the sessions are more conversational and practical and there is even a certain amount of role playing . |
| 20 | Zach was the only one who showed any real talent and he was more of a performer than an actor . |
| 21 | Shredding and slicing life , in Woolf 's view , menacing it with monotony and madness , in Lawrence 's , clocks provide for modernist fiction more of a threat than a sense of order and regularity . |
| 22 | Political neutrality , without which a militarily improved army was liable to prove more of a threat than a support to Spanish democracy , was quite another matter . |
| 23 | Despite Dustin 's worries over the script-'I learned not to try to build more of a character than the text can support' — his performance is one of threads and patches , full of actorish tics and attempts at pathos . |
| 24 | More of a wallet than a purse , it still lay where the man had dropped it . |
| 25 | Her first appearance on the operatic stage was more of a stumble than a début . |
| 26 | No no er erm well er there is Prunus that 's a plum I mean a cherry that grows up and various ones like that the only trouble is with these type of things they can be more of a nuisance than the trees that you do have now because those trees growing up those spindly ones as you put it erm some gardeners call them or whatever name they use I but the trouble is bits die in the centre of those and they tend to drop down and they can be in time more far more of a nuisance than the trees they 've got now which seems to me quite suitable . |
| 27 | No no er erm well er there is Prunus that 's a plum I mean a cherry that grows up and various ones like that the only trouble is with these type of things they can be more of a nuisance than the trees that you do have now because those trees growing up those spindly ones as you put it erm some gardeners call them or whatever name they use I but the trouble is bits die in the centre of those and they tend to drop down and they can be in time more far more of a nuisance than the trees they 've got now which seems to me quite suitable . |
| 28 | This track is an extended 12-bar workout in two tempos , and John comes very much to the fore for 60 bars playing what is more of a solo than a bass part , though he does still strongly outline the changes , as we will see . |
| 29 | The combination of acute pain with sudden hostility produces a harsher version of the usual cry of pain — more of a screech than a scream . |
| 30 | When he had begun she had been inclined to send him off or run away herself ; but his determination had kept her listening and she had watched him walk away with his plan — it was more of a plan than a proposal — well lodged in her mind and unexpectedly endearing . |