Example sentences of "and [adj] than [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A painting of a male head , which is almost certainly a study for the figure of the sailor that Picasso originally intended to place in the centre of the composition , while it is bolder and sketchier than a work like the Self-Portrait , shows all the earlier Iberian devices . |
| 2 | This is one of the reasons why they 're already far more interesting and demanding than the wave of both American and British post-Nirvana types . |
| 3 | Of course the environment is very much more simple and unpleasant than the environment from which you 've just come . |
| 4 | The transition from symbol to politician was to be far more protracted and painful than the transition from soldier to symbol had been in 1940 . |
| 5 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 6 | But this no more implies a conscious awareness of the distinctions between past , present , and future than the use of language necessitates an explicit knowledge of grammar . |
| 7 | The procedure before the county court is of course swifter and cheaper than an application before this court . |
| 8 | We must look at this quest for beauty as a purpose more real and noble than the quest of the knights of old for the Holy Grail . |
| 9 | Brooks Brothers ' past success was based on the personal touch and more than a soupcon of snobbery . |
| 10 | WITH CHARACTERISTIC PRECISION AND MORE THAN A SOUPÇON OF INSPIRATION , THE SWISS CREATED THE DUROMATIC |
| 11 | The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument . |
| 12 | During this time we organized two national conferences for students with disabilities and more than a handful of steadily more accessible conferences for lesbians and gays . |
| 13 | Certainly he came under such guidance from within his family which clashed with his own predilections , for his varsity life seems to have been plagued by vocational uncertainty and more than a touch of its weakening indifference . |
| 14 | The smile was still there , but behind it now was a hint of trouble , and more than a hint of tiredness . |
| 15 | A fruit and vegetable mixture with a delicately balanced flavour and more than a hint of summer . |
| 16 | ‘ Out , ’ said Edwards with a nerve sharpened by cold and more than an hour in the company of Mrs Kathy Grogan . |
| 17 | I simply do not know , at least not if the properties are to be non-trivial , and more than an acceptance of certain machines into the category of human beings by fiat or polite convention . |
| 18 | Issuing from the loch is the River Arkaig , crossing a narrow strip of land and less than a mile in length before entering Loch Lochy . |
| 19 | Their lodgings lay almost in the shadow of the Stefansdom , the great cathedral dominating the centre of the city , and less than a mile from the Theatre an der Wien . |
| 20 | That same night , at that same moment , and less than a mile from the Zoo , one other living creature was thinking of Minch . |
| 21 | At present north Belfast and Newtownabbey contain less than five per cent of the office space in Greater Belfast : much less than is contained in the small area around the university and less than a quarter of that found in east Belfast . |
| 22 | The defeat deprived the garrisons in Aquitaine of the reinforcements they needed , and less than a month after the destruction of Pembroke 's fleet du Guesclin entered Poitiers . |
| 23 | Tucked in the south-east corner of Bavaria , just across the border from Austria and less than an hour from Salzburg , this dramatic resort lies in the heart of forest . |
| 24 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 25 | 2.22 The calculation of the multiplier is even less precise and arithmetical than the computation of the multiplicand . |
| 26 | This , however , is not the case , for there is undoubtedly more to the distinction between given and new than the assignment of phonological stress . |
| 27 | But it is hard indeed to see how that axiom itself could be made more convincing either to a purely humanist philosophy or to a theology which maintained that God is something more and other than the obverse of our finitude . |
| 28 | Leon laid his hands to the rod and George noticed how they were bigger , stronger , altogether more mature and experienced than the rest of him . |