Example sentences of "[adj -er] than [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trent let go jib sheet and halyard ; the heavy canvas flashed free , disappearing into the rain curtain as if lighter than tissue paper . |
| 2 | Leading on from this , a more general point is that where the objective of the operation is rather broader than profit maximization , shareholder control is probably far less appropriate than state control ( see , for example , Baumol , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | Ageism , so defined , is broader than age discrimination . |
| 4 | And there is no way of checking that bottled water is any cleaner than tap water . |
| 5 | Poll Tax was fairer than Council Tax ? — Convener to answer this one but see what facts and figures can be found to back up his argument . |
| 6 | Fairer than Poll Tax — |
| 7 | Avoid width at the top but create volume at the chin — do not wear your hair shorter than chin level . |
| 8 | PTO Power is generally lower than engine power through driveline losses . |
| 9 | Her boast was that she had been dancing at every RAF and American air force station within a 30-mile radius , and that she would n't look at any male with a rank lower than Squadron Leader or the American equivalent . |
| 10 | The reason for this is that sperm production takes place at a temperature a couple of degrees lower than body temperature , so the process has to take place outside the body to function properly . |
| 11 | However , in 1957 some bonds were redeemed by the Club at less than par , so perhaps the President was successful after all , possibly by inviting bondholders themselves to suggest a lower than par price . |
| 12 | Where the confusion seems to stem from is the fact that guitar music sounds an octave lower than concert pitch . |
| 13 | Water Pipit greyer , paler than Rock Pipit with white , not greyish outer tail feathers . |
| 14 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 15 | Since ‘ crack is bulkier than cocaine hydrochloride there is no incentive to import cocaine as crack . |
| 16 | There are other causes of anaemia ( for example one type of anaemia is due to lack of vitamin B12 ) , but they are very much rarer than iron deficiency anaemia . |
| 17 | As a result , the Yachting World Trophy for line honours — allowing motoring for only one-third of the elapsed time — went to Speedy Go , sailed by Philippe Barbe , which finished only 10 hours , 11 min. later than Ocean Quest . |
| 18 | Entries to be received no later than World Cup Final Day , July 8 . |
| 19 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's a larger than life person with the character to put it all behind him . ’ |
| 21 | She was like a larger than life fantasy that had just come true . |
| 22 | At COSMOS we feel that , to do it justice , this sensational larger than life attraction truly deserves one 's total and undivided attention . |
| 23 | The 64-year-old actor is probably best known for playing larger than life council labourer Selwyn Froggit on TV in the 1970s . |
| 24 | ‘ He was a huge man , a larger than life character , ’ Ufton added . |
| 25 | But make sure you pay attention not just to the basic impulses and enthusiasms , which are sound and fine ; not just to the incidental portrait of a consummate mountaineer in the passages about Dave Breashears ; but also to a strange sort of instinctual third dimension which Blessed 's larger than life character seems to entice into play : |
| 26 | Gregg was a larger than life character on and off the field — but he 's not about to put any pressure on his son . |
| 27 | , intake operator , is a larger than life character and is extremely popular around the maltings , which is just as well when you see his size ! usually takes the barley samples and generally attends to the drivers . |
| 28 | He was a very much larger than life character who it is understood , although it may not be strictly true , was sacked three times by his company for which he worked as a salesman . |
| 29 | ( My great grandfather lived here and he was a larger than life character . |
| 30 | VAUX chairman Paul Nicholson has always had a larger than life attitude to the manner in which he conducts his business . |