Example sentences of "[art] [noun] than a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man who became 40 just before or just after 1 January 1986 is much more likely to contribute a death to the numerator than a man who became 40 in the early days of 1985 or the last days of 1986 . |
| 2 | He had a great sense of humour and was more like a teenager than a man nearing retirement . |
| 3 | In The Godfather , Don Corleone says : ‘ A lawyer with a briefcase can rob more money in a week than a man with a gun can take in a year . ’ |
| 4 | I think it 's worse for a woman than a man . |
| 5 | The son of a Jat farmer outside Delhi , by the age of thirteen she was already refusing to work in the fields , saying that she felt more like a woman than a man . |
| 6 | What she is really saying , after all this time , is that it is more important for a woman than a man to look good . |
| 7 | A woman retiring at 60 will get a lower pension from a PP than a man would at 65 , even if she has paid in the same amount over the same number of years . |
| 8 | Do you think it 's harder to be a women than a man in today 's world ? |
| 9 | He was surprised to see Mrs Brocklebank and slightly more surprised to see Ben Brocklebank whom he had never absolutely believed in before , thinking him more an excuse than a man , someone Mrs B. sheltered behind when it suited her not to do something . |
| 10 | He had even spoken — interminably — at the famous meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , held at Oxford in 1860 , when Huxley allegedly scored his victory over Bishop Wilberforce with the retort that he would rather have an ape for an ancestor than a man who used his privileged position to pronounce on matters he knew nothing about . |
| 11 | ‘ He is more of an idea than a man , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ He is more an idea than a man . ’ |
| 13 | Suddenly an evil face , more like an animal than a man , looked at us from behind the rock . |