Example sentences of "[adj -er] than [art] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thankfully we 've been spared the agony of SRV 's favourite .013 to .058 strings ; the reissue comes with a much more manageable .010 to .046 set , and it 's been set up with an action considerably lower than the man 's own and at the 12th fret . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What does it mean , standing there in the empty room , bigger than a man ? |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | He could also see the driver of the sledge-a huge figure , much bigger than a man . |
| 6 | ‘ He was huge , much bigger than a man . |
| 7 | In time , a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand produced a thunderstorm . |
| 8 | Orcs vary in height and their physical appearance more than humans — some are no taller than a man but most are substantially larger and the biggest Orcs stand well over seven feet tall . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was taller than a man , and big enough to accommodate four or five people inside . |
| 11 | It was covered with birch trees , thousands of them , small and frail , none of them much taller than a man . |
| 12 | Half of the body moves along the ground on many little legs — the front half rears up taller than a man , with many little arms . |
| 13 | A grey stone wall , taller than a man , surrounded everything . |
| 14 | They were huge wheeled galvanised cylinders , each taller than a man and of the kind that could be chained to a garbage wagon and then hoisted and inverted in one great burst of hydraulic power . |
| 15 | The " sexual peak " of womanhood is slightly later than the man 's — around the age of 30 . |
| 16 | Something larger than a man . |
| 17 | Something much larger than a man . |
| 18 | Paddington was beginning to loom slightly larger than a man 's hand on the horizon ; Paddington was where the murdered Kemp had stood and phoned The Randolph the previous day . |
| 19 | There was always a danger that the legend would become larger than the man , just as it certainly has with his close friend Warren Beatty and thus it is easy to see why Jack Nicholson now guards himself well and repels invaders . |
| 20 | Jonathon Morris , you will have gathered , is going places — and no one could be happier than the man himself . |
| 21 | Anna Ford is three years older than the man who will now feature constantly in her news bulletins , and her former rival Angela Rippon is 48 . |
| 22 | Though from a much more comfortable background than Burton , Dylan Thomas had been brought up just the other side of Swansea Bay , a few years older than the man who would become his greatest reader . |
| 23 | Other dinosaur track evidence reveals a medium-sized biped weighing about half a ton , seeming to run at 43kph , which is faster than a man but still considerably slower than a racehorse . |
| 24 | A cloud far smaller than a man 's hand peeped over the horizon as March began . |
| 25 | Like their big relatives the Orcs , Goblins vary in size although they are typically smaller than Orcs and usually smaller than a man . |
| 26 | It was smaller than a man 's thumb nail and Nicholson held it between the thumb and finger of his right hand with surprising delicacy . |
| 27 | But the woman sounded calmer than the man . |
| 28 | Firstly , there are the so-called pronouns of laziness ( Geach , 1962 : 125ff ) , as in Karttunen 's well-known sentence ( see Lyons , 1977a : 673ff ) : ( 93 ) The man who gave his paycheck to his wife was wiser than the man who gave it to his mistress where it is not co-referential with his paycheck , but refers to what a repetition of that NP would have referred to ( namely the paycheck of the man whose mistress got it ) if it had occurred in place of it . |
| 29 | It was a little higher than a man , and it ended , rough and unfinished , in the centre of the clearing around the bank of screens . |
| 30 | Most bears were small and black , sometimes no higher than a man , but this great , shaggy-furred animal reminded him of stories he had heard from knights who had served with the Teutonic Orders in the wild black forests of the north . |