Example sentences of "it is [adj] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is higher than a year ago in every EFTA country and in every G7 country except Japan . |
| 2 | What stopped me in my tracks was a sentence reading , ‘ The dung beetle program really can not be justified on the grounds that it is cheaper than a horse ’ . |
| 3 | For her part Piaf once told her sister , ‘ You ca n't have a house without a man , Momone , it is worse than a day without sunshine . ’ |
| 4 | THE LAST TIME I WAS IN Baghdad I was sitting in the bar of the famous , and famously dreadful , Al Rashed ( ‘ It is more than a hotel , ’ say the advertisements , though they do n't tell you in what way ) , drinking with a senior government official . |
| 5 | To the people of England , it is more than a question of who administers local government : the lines on the map , the cricket teams , the Lords Lieutenants and signposts are important . |
| 6 | A financier in the Manchester broking community said yesterday : ‘ It is more than a possibility that he will make an offer to get Knighton out of his hole . ’ |
| 7 | But the programme 's producer , Peter Kinkead , says it is more than a gimmick — despite the fact that there are only about 5500 Prestel sets in TVs 's catchment area . |
| 8 | It is more than a coincidence that he is an excellent speech speechreader , a stimulating , well-informed person , recognized by his colleagues as a man of integrity whose opinions are respected . |
| 9 | It is more than a year since the red and white surveyors ' poles glinted above the reeds , blazing a trail for the draglines that were soon to follow . |
| 10 | It is more than a decision to buy flowers for your lover or plan a romantic dinner . |
| 11 | British Coal , one of the few companies still nationalised , has the unenviable task of proving to its customers that it is more than a dinosaur of the industrial revolution , slouching towards privatisation and a slow demise . |
| 12 | It is more than a matter , however , of just declaring our personal commitment to one viewpoint and then hoping that this will resolve all problems . |
| 13 | It is more than an atlas : it is a superbly illustrated synopsis of the characteristics of the major tropical diseases , their infective agents , their ecology , their life cycles and their vectors … probably the best value for money for anyone interested in obtaining an illustrated guide to tropical medicine and medical parasitology . " |
| 14 | — the prefix dis — of disobey is not a lexical unit because , although it is a semantic constituent , it is smaller than a word . |
| 15 | It is less than an hour 's drive across the border from where Roma was born in Londonderry . |
| 16 | If you want to en try and ensure that you 're going to have a self sustained community , one hundred percent , you make sure that presumably you 've got a show case cinema with fifteen screens there , er a B and Q , erm a whole range of of facilities that nobody ever needs leave , erm erm erm er that new settlement , the reality of the real world of course is that all settlements to a greater or lesser degree , er have a relationship with other er larger scale settlements , now then let's look at the new settlement , fourteen hundred dwellings , we estimate that that is going to be of the order of around three thousand three hundred people , now that is sizeable , it is not small , it is larger than a number of the small market towns er in North Yorkshire , like Boroughbridge , Settle , it is a significant development erm erm and within it erm there will be a requirement er be a requirement for a a a primary school , it justifies that . |
| 17 | At 3.9m long it is shorter than a slalom kayak but has all the features of the original Kiwi , making it ideal for family and disabled use . |