Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite possibly another administration than a British one , less morally aspiring and less legally punctilious , would have arranged for him a quiet accident , or a fatal incarceration . |
| 2 | DAVID ELSWORTH will have a lot more to occupy his thoughts this winter than a certain grey steeplechaser . |
| 3 | You will also need scissors , which are more convenient for this job than a knife . |
| 4 | Bizarrely , it 's a pork butcher 's shop , and there 's more to this business than a bacon slicer and a few trays of pies . |
| 5 | Lash and Urry are much less guilty of this offence than a group from whom they very specifically dissociate themselves — the proponents of ‘ post-industrialism ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ A wolf can travel faster in this country than a mounted man — and more silently , too . |
| 7 | The 1977–81 material is thought to be essentially complete , except for the exclusion of 12% who had a previous history of malignancy or had undergone gastric surgery or who were given the drug for another diagnosis than a peptic ulcer related disease . |
| 8 | After that I might do some washing — I 'd rather do a little each day than a large amount at once . |
| 9 | Their B vitamins , potassium and other trace elements , starch and some protein are especially significant since we are more likely to eat potatoes each day than a kiwi fruit , a posy of parsley or a bunch of blackcurrants . |
| 10 | Fuzzy Peach ( ripe peach ) , Juba ( lemon and orange ) and Camomella ( camomile ) are on sale from February 18 — less ageist than a wrinkle cream ! |
| 11 | An aposematic species may indeed suffer less predation than a cryptic , distasteful species , but that does not tell us how aposematism evolved . |
| 12 | So I needed no more prompting than a letter from Sean Constable of Runcorn for me to choose Marcus Miller on Sanborn 's Hey for this month 's analysis ( enjoy your Elites , Sean ) . |
| 13 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 14 | Pre-tax profits of £30m to £40m point to a p/e of over 15 at 104p , down 21p , which is less support than a yield of 9.5 per cent if the final holds . |
| 15 | We are softly up the stairs and into our room with less noise than a pair of cat burglars . |
| 16 | Specimens of these butterflies are often found with bite-marks in the region of these false eyes , showing that bird predators really are attracted to this part of the body , allowing the insects to fly off to safety with no more damage than a few frayed edges . |
| 17 | Any one of these teams could inflict more damage than a wing of Luftwaffe bombers in the Second World War . |
| 18 | You 'll find that quite often this sort of selective improvement will give a room the new look it needs for far less money than a drastic change-around . |
| 19 | Either arbitration or litigation would have taken more time and cost more money than a successful reference to an expert . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | to inspire more action than a sigh — |
| 22 | An ambiguous rule will carry much less weight than a specific one . |
| 23 | Look out for the splatter ( a knuckle-cracking heavy who uses more force than a bouncer ) , pay a quick visit to heaven and hell , and as for Santa 's in-store ‘ grotty ’ … it 's tacky , vulgar , and full of overpriced garbage they could n't sell during the year ! |
| 24 | As a general guide , a large dog requires more exercise than a smaller one . |
| 25 | A National Film Studio , combining the small companies into one strong conglomerate , had been proposed , but this idea made no more headway than a proposal to negotiate a reciprocity deal with the Americans , whereby they would take a certain number of British films into national distribution in return for free access to British screens . |
| 26 | ‘ OK , ’ said I with more determination than a sybarite in a sacristy . |
| 27 | A serious extension of the simple analysis presented in the previous paragraph would be of more help than a thousand more studies documenting that socio-economic differentials in mortality exist . |
| 28 | Employee fundraising appears to be an increasingly popular option and whilst it involves a lot more work than a straight donation it has the ability to generate longer term grass roots support amongst employees . |
| 29 | In fact , because of Police and Trade Union restrictions , a motor bus running in London is allowed very little more flexibility than a trolleybus . |
| 30 | The techniques he employs , he says , give him more flexibility than a potter and allow him maximum flexibility with malleable qualities of the metals he employs . |