Example sentences of "[adj -er] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The instrument was produced by several manufacturers 30 years ago , Gibson , Burns and Hagstrom as well as Fender , and all were tuned one octave lower than a guitar ( EADGBE ) , with the major third interval between the second and third strings to maintain guitar fingering . |
| 32 | But is still some £20m lower than a year ago , and interest earnings fell 27 p.c. to £6½m . |
| 33 | The Barman 's voice was lower than an ankle bracelet on a flat-footed pygmy . |
| 34 | I have never lived any nearer than a mile from a public bus and at one point it would be maybe two and a half miles from that bus , so my children , well my children are grown up now , but my children got nowhere or did nothing if I did n't drive nobody delivers the shopping nobody goes |
| 35 | A painting of a male head , which is almost certainly a study for the figure of the sailor that Picasso originally intended to place in the centre of the composition , while it is bolder and sketchier than a work like the Self-Portrait , shows all the earlier Iberian devices . |
| 36 | I can see them appealing to players who want to change from a rack unit crammed with sounds that are hardly ( if ever ) used , back to something which is as simple as , or even simpler than a row of pedals . |
| 37 | The plea of its difficulty will not hold , for as a consummation is always simpler than a beginning , the ‘ Propertius ’ is certainly much simpler than some of Pound 's shorter earlier works whose content is sometimes elusive , tenuous , evanescent … |
| 38 | The only goose with an all-black head , and smallest and darkest of the three wholly black-necked geese , no bigger than a drake Mallard ( p. 53 ) . |
| 39 | Your bum 's hardly bigger than a fist . |
| 40 | If a work is bigger than a man , he wrote , it can mean either that it is trying to surpass man or that it is not afraid of being looked at . |
| 41 | What does it mean , standing there in the empty room , bigger than a man ? |
| 42 | ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’ |
| 43 | He could also see the driver of the sledge-a huge figure , much bigger than a man . |
| 44 | ‘ He was huge , much bigger than a man . |
| 45 | In time , a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand produced a thunderstorm . |
| 46 | Under her left breast , whose pale skin was only just beginning to give up its bloom to death , was a tiny , dark-red blob , no bigger than a sand flea . |
| 47 | The thing was gleaming red , bigger than a tractor ought to be in her opinion , with bigger front wheels than expected , and smaller back . |
| 48 | It has been essential to use light tackle and if he tries a hook any bigger than a size 22 , the fish wo n't even look at the bait . |
| 49 | That evening in their room a low table no bigger than a music stool was set with food . |
| 50 | The incredible ruined cities , many more of which still remain to be discovered in the jungle areas , are one fascination , if only to speculate as to how they were built in a civilisation which had no beast of burden bigger than a llama , no wheels , and no cutting edge except stone . |
| 51 | Called the ‘ Pond Protection Kit ’ , it 's a mini-electric fence system powered by four Duracell batteries housed within a plastic box no bigger than a pint pot . |
| 52 | In a garden no bigger than a pint pot , Bill moran proves that small can always be beautiful . |
| 53 | Well it , I mean let's face it it is n't gon na be no bigger than a clock is it ? |
| 54 | This dilemma for a game with millions of followers worldwide has proved to be a ‘ bunch of sixes ’ opportunity for Welsh inventor Don Hughes , a self-confessed liardice buff , who claims to have beaten the Far East electronics industry literally at its own game by developing an electronic version that is hardly bigger than a credit card . |
| 55 | Is that bigger than a tennis court ? |
| 56 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 57 | The third of my wildlife gift ideas is a magnifying glass , or better still , one of the new battery-powered pocket microscopes , no bigger than a couple of fountain pens . |
| 58 | There were no houses , no people , no hills , and not a rock bigger than a cricket ball . |
| 59 | When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea . |
| 60 | He 's got a gob big as a wa , bigger than a whale ! |