Example sentences of "[pers pn] than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clothes can be costumes , and for some young women , walking down the street with bleached hair or a biker 's leather jacket says more about them than a thousand words . |
| 2 | For the first time for a century woman discovered that men wanted something more human from them than a nun-like chastity , a bien pensant idealism . |
| 3 | To show enthusiasm for a glance with them through the pages of old photograph albums , can often give immense pleasure ; and half an hour spent like this can mean more to them than a whole evening of television , for they are warmed by memories of happier days . |
| 4 | Most macroeconomic data are published fairly quickly , and any delay is often due more to the time it takes to collect them than a strict publication lag . |
| 5 | They 're kept warm When you saw those little babies last week that were born very , very premature , apart from being very small , if you looked at those arms and legs and their bodies what was the noticeably different about them than a full term baby ? |
| 6 | as far as I 'm concerned Arthur , John 's more important to me than a bloody pair of glasses |
| 7 | I know I 'm too old for you , but believe me , I 'll take more care of you than a younger man would . |
| 8 | For at Craigendarroch we have more to offer you than a luxurious weekend break . |
| 9 | Then suddenly , and sweetly , she began to realise that , since Travis was no more to her than a good friend , and she was still going to have her job at the end of all this , when it finally did end , it was going to be she who had the last laugh — and not N. Massingham Esquire . |
| 10 | Instinctively she had sensed that Delaney would demand more of her than a passing gratification . |
| 11 | She would rather have him than a hundred friends . |
| 12 | Rory would be nothing more to him than a pleasant extra thrown in for good measure . |
| 13 | ‘ He ai n't got no more vocation in him than a blind sparrow , that 's what . ’ |
| 14 | A 500 gram cone of airy acrylic would have many more metres or yards of yarn on it than a 500 gram cone of much denser cotton . |
| 15 | A 500 gram cone of airy acrylic would have many more metres or yards of yarn on it than a 500 gram cone of much denser cotton . |
| 16 | Their relationship was an oddly comfortable one , with nothing more demonstrative about it than a swift goodnight kiss , or hands joined on a walk in the beautiful countryside around Chastlecombe . |
| 17 | ‘ Why do you continue to pretend that there is nothing more between us than a common interest in two wayward adolescents ? ’ |
| 18 | Nothing is more uncomfortable to us than a social hiatus , a silence hanging heavily between people in which no one can think of anything to say . |