Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real situation was between the widow and the youngster who was effectively older than a boy , in feeling and reaction at least . |
| 2 | First he handed over a bundle of Russian paper money that was little bigger than a wad of visiting cards , and some coins jangled . |
| 3 | The footpath on the left bank of the burn was little better than a sheep track , but there were clues to its former importance as a droving road over the hills to Byrness in Redesdale . |
| 4 | There was just enough slope in the field to give him a decent run , though she felt sure it must be frustrating for someone so skilled to be stuck on what was little better than a nursery area . |
| 5 | My rather innocent trust crumbled when I realized that as far as the police were concerned , I was little better than a criminal on whom they must keep tabs . |
| 6 | But it was surely unlikely that he had talked over the idea with someone who was little better than a stranger . |
| 7 | And Molly Malone was right : the gangway was little better than a ladder that clung to the ship 's side with fragile tenacity . |
| 8 | Yet , unlike the middle class , the worker was rarely more than a hair 's breadth removed from the pauper , and insecurity was therefore constant and real . |
| 9 | In a unique trial comparing a non-elemental tube fed diet with steroids , Lochs et al suggested that a peptide based diet was less effective than a combination of methylprednisolone and sulfasalazine in treating active Crohn 's disease . |
| 10 | It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves . |
| 11 | But Lij Yasu 's partiality for Islam was apparently more than a question of convenience . |
| 12 | and I was better qualified than a lot of guys in my class and yet they left college and got a job right away ! |
| 13 | The pay was much better than a secretary 's pay , and the work was more interesting . |
| 14 | And her beauty was already more than a promise . |
| 15 | Clive was already less than a ghost , less than a memory . |
| 16 | And his will was that the slave , the young man who was scarcely more than a boy , should somehow die for his brief moment of rebellion . |
| 17 | THE audience that turned up for the recital of British violin sonatas was scarcely more than a sprinkling , which made one despair of our unadventurous public . |
| 18 | If Labour offered only a feeble challenge , the Alliance was scarcely more than a rabble . |
| 19 | His face was not more than a foot away from hers and his dark brown eyes were smiling into hers . |
| 20 | One may doubt whether this was ever more than a schoolboy game . |
| 21 | There was always more than a hint , of course , that the real source of anxiety was that the bicycle might be enlarging the freedom of women in undesirable directions , because both in terms of class and sex the bicycle was a great leveller . |
| 22 | It was hardly wider than a car and somebody had parked a van halfway along . |
| 23 | Alina peered toward the lake , which was hardly more than a sliver on the horizon . |
| 24 | It was hardly more than a flicker in the eyes , but suddenly Ruth felt she glimpsed Adam again , her own brother , looking out at her desperately . |
| 25 | The inquest was hardly more than a formality , the verdict an inevitability . |
| 26 | Their pay , expressed in pence per 1000 ens , varied , but was still less than a man 's . |
| 27 | This proved too ambitious ; the Twenty-Second Session favoured separate texts for civil and for criminal matters , and a subsequent Expert Group , meeting in New Delhi in 1982 , decided that a model bilateral agreement in each of these areas was more appropriate than a draft convention . |
| 28 | When they had gone , Cramer used the phone in the garage to put through a call to Sir Harry Marriott at his home and give him the news — the phone was more secure than a police radio band . |
| 29 | Surely , she reasoned , the future of a child was more important than a promise to a man who was now dead ? |
| 30 | Business was more rewarding than a relationship . |