Example sentences of "are [adv] [det] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , the landlord 's covenants are rather fewer than the tenant 's and if one was of a mind , and really thought that it was worth the effort , it is possible to invent several pages of landlord 's covenants which the tenant would dearly like to have included , but this would definitely not be worthwhile . |
| 2 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 3 | Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions . |
| 4 | Many World War One Aerodromes are little more than a folk memory kept alive by such names as Aerodrome Cottages at Hadleigh in Suffolk . |
| 5 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 6 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 7 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 8 | Thus the famous " Bohemian " ( or " Hercynian " ) and " Rhenish " provinces of Devonian times are little more than the differences between a lime-mud and a sandy sea-floor . |
| 9 | Lewis 's eldils , for instance , are little more than the angels of Judaeo-Christian tradition ; but by confusing them linguistically with Tolkien 's eldalie ( in The Silmarillion ) , he implies that the elves of mat mythology are angelic , which they are not — they are simply elves . |
| 10 | But The Orb are much more than the sum of their parts . |
| 11 | Even clothes for ‘ the larger woman ’ are usually modelled on women who are scarcely more than a size 12 . |
| 12 | To Rumi the tears are far more than a guide in the spiritual quest ; they are the very water of life . |
| 13 | For example in Wales there are now less than a quarter of the district councils which were previously in existence . |
| 14 | If the hall is too narrow for this and many entrance ways are barely more than a corridor , try to get in a long bench or a very narrow console , or at the very least a stool and a shelf . |