Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planning as a local authority responsibility has its origins in the public health and housing policies of the nineteenth century , but from the outset the objectives were broader than a simple emphasis on the efficient use of land . |
| 2 | But the windows were bigger than a small cottage would hold . |
| 3 | But the Secretary of State was not prepared to wait until research demonstrated , if it could , that common schools were better than a divided system ; such divisions were , in his view , matters of value rather than of fact and related to a vision of the nature of a social democracy . |
| 4 | An estate for life was less than an estate tail , and both were smaller than a fee simple . |
| 5 | Their actual dimensions were , in many cases , not much smaller than those of equivalent modern aircraft , but their weights were less than a tenth of modern , hard-skinned machines . |
| 6 | They were less than a quarter of a kilometre from the castle . |
| 7 | The first Christians also knew that divine resources were more than a match for the dark powers . |
| 8 | The Stirling bombers used on the S.A.S. missions such as Houndsworth were more than a local goods service ferrying freight to various points in France . |
| 9 | If you were more than a reasonable time , they would claim that you were failing to work your beat , or gossiping — things like that . |
| 10 | Careful examination of Jones ' experiment showed that it had less in common with that of Fleischmann and Pons than the media advertised : Jones measured no heat and his neutrons were more than a billionfold too few to explain the amounts of heat that the chemists were claiming . |
| 11 | Iain Ogilvie McWhirter 's teaching methods , Toby felt , were more than a little old-fashioned . |
| 12 | The warmth of him against her side was making her feel more and more unsettled , and her answers to his comments were more than a little distracted . |
| 13 | The lectures were more than a little disappointing in that most of them were concerned with the economics of companies such as Unilever . |
| 14 | Of whom there were more than a few I would imagine , thinking of how she had thrown herself on the poor defenceless Marcus . |
| 15 | Here were Larsen and himself , grown men , well armed and equipped , and yet they were more than a little uneasy at the unwelcome prospect of meeting with the savage beasts . |
| 16 | Both wore bowler hats — the only two in the entire stadium — and their longish black coats were more than a little out of fashion . |
| 17 | In any case , the repressive methods employed by the Armed Police , the Civil Guard and the legal system itself were more than a match for unarmed industrial workers . |
| 18 | There were more than a few ‘ One Sergeant Wilko ’ and similar chants during the evening , perhaps making up for the heat-of-the-moment bollocking he got at Anfield for taking off a very industrious Rod Wallace . |
| 19 | Of the total sample of around 95,000 trees , 23.5 per cent were more than a quarter defoliated in 1992 , and were thus classified as damaged , compared with 22.2 per cent in 1991 . |
| 20 | Stockbroker Barrie Tyler of Cardiff-based Bell , Lawrie White yesterday said Mr Sherwood 's comments were more than a warning shot . |
| 21 | Because it was easier than a bra and panties she had donned an ivory , gossamer-light teddy . |
| 22 | The highest infant mortality was reported in those cases where the preceding birth interval was less than two years and , in many communities , especially high , if the inter-birth period was shorter than a full year . |
| 23 | It would be nice to say that the tiny frogs thought long and hard about the new flower , about life in the old flower , about the need to explore , about the possibility that the world was bigger than a pool with petals around the edge . |
| 24 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |
| 25 | The pot was taller than a man , and a prisoner had to climb up on a table in order to extract a sample with a huge ladle . |
| 26 | It was taller than a man , and big enough to accommodate four or five people inside . |
| 27 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |
| 28 | He was better than a music-hall turn . |
| 29 | Protagonists of seventeenth-century fen drainage pointed out that a fat ox was better than a well-grown eel , and a tame sheep more use than a wild duck . |
| 30 | It was better than a cockfight , and even better than the Battle . |