Example sentences of "be [adj] than a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The objects and phenomena that a physics book describes are simpler than a single cell in the body of its author . |
| 2 | Since you 're more than a little accident prone at this time , exercise caution and be careful not to lead your owner into trouble . |
| 3 | Fantastic , popmungously great 45s , however , are rarer than a disco-dancing dodo . |
| 4 | The observation of the Great Wall has come from an ambitious project to map the positions of all visible galaxies which are brighter than a specified minimum . |
| 5 | Most missiles with pretensions to cleverness are brighter than a laser-guided bomb , but not as clever as a Tomahawk . |
| 6 | These perceptions are more than a sad reflection of how little sex roles have changed : women seem to have much invested in keeping things the way they are , in seeing their partners as stronger and saner . |
| 7 | To parents whose present and future livelihoods depend on their children , those deaths are more than an emotional tragedy . |
| 8 | Long clones such as yeast artificial chromosomes — YACs ( 6 ) and P1s ( 7 ) will require fewer hybridisations than cosmid clones to link them , but the resulting map will be coarser than a cosmid map would be . |
| 9 | Also [ WEA branch members ] have the reputation in official circles of being so ‘ dreadfully earnest ’ — more an indication of the frivolous attitude that all education must be made palatable to be consumable than a valid criticism of their activities . |
| 10 | Finally , when you are hanging the mirror , do remember to use some extra-sturdy hooks and nylon picture cord , as it will be heavier than a normal mirror , and you do n't want to ruin your carefully constructed design , as well as incur seven years ' bad luck , by watching the whole thing smash on to the floor ! |
| 11 | Anna turned all American , What can be nicer than a young couple with their way to make , and what was she for ? |
| 12 | ‘ But they realise that a partnership government would be better than a Labour government , and much better than a minority government of either party . ’ |
| 13 | All these considerations apart , and what could be better than a democratic choice by a democratic sovereign , Napoleon III was in love with Eugénie . |
| 14 | Colin McRae says that when the gear box is working properly , it should be better than a manual change because a driver can make mistakes . |
| 15 | Granules , seed treatment , bait sprays or selective placement may be better than an overall spray . |
| 16 | As Harrison comments : ‘ Smaller investors get a good deal on commission , as it will be cheaper than an hourly fee . ’ |
| 17 | That would be less than a complete solution . |
| 18 | the probability of flooding must be less than a specified level ; |
| 19 | In order for an apparent consent or refusal of consent to be less than a true consent or refusal , there must be such a degree of external influence as to persuade the patient to depart from her own wishes , to an extent that the law regards it as undue . |
| 20 | He may be faster than a speeding bullet but he 's no match for a giant alien called Doomsday . |
| 21 | But I 'm more than a big girl , she cried silently , gazing at her face , devoid now of any make-up . |
| 22 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 23 | But the declaration issued by the congress left no doubt that the decision was intended to be more than a mere facelift : ‘ The present concept of socialism , the Stalinist system , has exhausted all its social , economic , political and moral reserves , and has proved unsuitable for keeping pace with global developments . |
| 24 | Civilization had to be more than a mere confluence of economic interests : ‘ And until we set in order our own crazy economic and financial systems , to say nothing of our philosophy of life , can we be sure that our helping hands to the barbarian and the savage will be any more desirable than the embrace of the leper ? ’ |
| 25 | In practice , it proved to be more than a mere truce after two decades of mutual and unbridled hostility . |
| 26 | To be worth two murders in eight days , Ascot had to be more than a mere gambling scam . |
| 27 | The resemblance to Marryat in O'Brian 's novels is unarguable in general terms and may even be more than a broad likeness . |
| 28 | In the end the consequences of Chernobyl may be more than a horrifying collection of statistics about unleashed radiation , deformed lives , premature deaths . |
| 29 | Our data suggest that the biologically active amidated peptides that are potential mediators of these actions can not be more than a small proportion of the total progastrin produced . |
| 30 | She wished she had been born into a different age , an age when women had been allowed to be more than a decorative possession . |