Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More of a knock at the back door than a storming of the castle gate perhaps , but something is going right for Jon Solly . |
| 2 | In essence it becomes a matrix of connected businesses that normally have much weaker direction from the corporate centre than a Stage 2 company . |
| 3 | That too is a problem , but I must say that we were much better prepared for the Inter-Continental Cup than a couple of other tournaments — that only makes our failure to qualify more disappointing . |
| 4 | Anxiety here was generated by the fact that William was a Calvinist , hardly more attractive as head of the Anglican Church than a Catholic . |
| 5 | Thus , cast in bronze , we have an Industrial Elephant , with a factory chimney , belching smoke , on its back , which would seem to be more to do with the advent of the Industrial Revolution than a comment on the British Raj . |
| 6 | ‘ When we do silage work , this engine is barely ticking over and it uses less fuel over the same acreage than a Ford 8210 , ’ 2 he says . |
| 7 | For most of the time he shifted about from one foot to the other , more like a naughty schoolboy who has been hauled up in front of the head master than a genie rubbed out of a bottle . |