Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The books were hardly more revealing , seeming to be less of a private collection than the sort of works which might help visiting tourists dedicated to culture . |
| 2 | Contraband was discovered in interesting concealments such as a spare piston assembly in the engineroom of a Dutch ship ( found by Bob , our chief engineer , of course ) , and a spare drilling core at the bottom of the hold of a Spanish ship contained products more akin to a Spanish distillery than the bed of the North Sea . |
| 3 | However , it was argued that , if a foreign predator wishes to place a greater value on a British company than the stock market does , then that is to the benefit of shareholders . |
| 4 | A lesser man than the Archdeacon would have made a mental note to avoid this rash abandonment of the riches offered by the Prayer Book collect in favour of a misshapen modernity . |
| 5 | Astra makes more sense as a public company than the Salim Group , mainly because its core businesses are obvious and integrated . |
| 6 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 7 | Few things can be more guaranteed to create a negative response than the sight of husband and wife sparring in public . |
| 8 | It was , therefore , all the more depressing for the Taylors to find colour more of a front-page issue than the fact that John raised nearly £1 million for Cheltenham 's unemployed and for local crime prevention . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps you would rather a good shafting than the whip ? ’ |
| 10 | There is no area more evocative of the organised and peaceful life of a well-ordered household than the kitchen garden . |
| 11 | All in all , it was better to have a tolerable tenement than the ideal which no one could afford . |
| 12 | No company , after all , is better equipped to design a jamming device for a particular missile than the company that made the missile in the first place . |
| 13 | If , because of the size of the cylinder index , only a higher-level index than the cylinder index can be held in main storage , a 20–50 per cent improvement over the performance of the file when the master index is stored on disk can still be achieved . |