Example sentences of "[noun] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a woodwork teacher for many years I consider this design to be dangerous because power drills run at a much higher speed than a brace and consequently the feed is too fast for accurate control . |
| 2 | It is undoubtedly true that in this period when new political lordships and principalities were replacing the Carolingian empire , and Europe was recovering from external attacks , the church was far more an upholder than a hammer of kings and other rulers . |
| 3 | Nothing is more off-putting to a prospective employee than a delay in reply . |
| 4 | An employer has no more power to give orders to an employee than a customer has to demand that a grocer supply goods at a certain price : all a discontented employer can do in practice , just like a customer , is terminate the relationship . |
| 5 | He , as a rag doll , contorted , controlled by invisible strings , jerked one way and then the other and the sewer filled up high , not a half-foot from the top of the walls , so that his tumble , when he fell into the swamp , it was more a plop than a splash . |
| 6 | Those who argue that rape should be viewed as more a crime of violence than a crime of sex might also prefer the scope of rape to be confined in this way . |
| 7 | New car registrations were nearly 16 per cent higher in the latest three months than a year earlier . |
| 8 | He 'd sold his own car for cash in Carlisle , and he had more important uses for his funds than a guest-house bed . |
| 9 | Spot checks or random monitoring visits were felt by some societies to hold out more prospect of deterring and detecting fraud than a routine requirement to produce a six-monthly report — a view supported by FIMBRA . |
| 10 | There is , first , the relationship between rich and poor nations , which may be conceived in terms of neo-imperialism and dependency ( but in that case imperialism has to be seen in a wider perspective than that which treats it exclusively as a stage in the development of capitalism , important though this latter process is ) , or in terms of the current preoccupation with a ‘ North-South dialogue ’ , which is today more a confrontation than a dialogue . |
| 11 | Yes , but there 's mo more emission from a cigar in a car than a cigarette . |
| 12 | Since queen and chamberlain had to work closely together ex officio , Vivian 's promotion looks more like a counterweight than a complement to Adalard 's . |
| 13 | Seething at the thought that acne-ridden new savers were getting a better deal than a man of his maturity and substance , he retired like a wounded beast to its lair to ponder the problem . |
| 14 | Just remember , kid , you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word you gave away . ’ |
| 15 | Come to that , she had much better legs than a man of Gav 's mental age deserved . |
| 16 | I glanced over , thinking that she had much better legs than a woman of her age deserved . |
| 17 | Zach 's room seemed more like a study than a bedroom . |
| 18 | He was always impressed with Leonard 's room , which he found to resemble more a study than a youth 's bedroom — already the style was evident . |
| 19 | Lord have mercy upon us , " said the Collector heavily , making it sound more like a command than a supplication . |
| 20 | Boli — Boom Boom to Marseille fans — was recently banned for four games after a fearsome tackle on Monaco 's Jurgen Klinsmann and goes into the European Cup tie talking more like a boxer than a footballer . |
| 21 | He looked increasingly more like a confused and inadequate witness than a killer . |
| 22 | Indeed , it is often the ability of management to agree the deal with much less protection in the way of warranties than a trade purchaser would accept that helps management to win the deal from the vendor . |
| 23 | At £110 Alfonzo is beyond most piggy-banks , so look on him more as an investment than a bedfellow . |
| 24 | The face was fine and a little gaunt , more that of a poet than a soldier . |
| 25 | It is worth remembering that a sparrow has more vertebrae in its neck than a giraffe . |
| 26 | Although it has a 25½″ scale this is much more a Gibson player 's neck than a Fender player 's , since it 's thin and very wide — 44mm at the nut . |
| 27 | It seems that problems of proof loom large here : there is a fear that the unscrupulous would manipulate any law permitting ‘ mercy killings ’ , and the argument is presumably that this would put at risk more unwilling parties than a law allowing euthanasia would benefit willing parties . |
| 28 | A properly signed and endorsed witness statement will carry more weight than a transcript should it be necessary to admit it under the Civil Evidence Act in the event of the witness being unable to give evidence at trial . |
| 29 | As a Scottish paper remarked at the time , it was not his first dismissal , ‘ Bremner has had more early baths than a miner on night-shift . ’ |
| 30 | There were few things more calculated to endear a prince to his subjects than a display of stern retribution on unjust officials . |