Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I can never convince you that I am other than a spirit , for what I have to tell you is this : that I have come from two hundred years in the future to speak to you — to sit here by this window and talk as we talk now ! ’ |
| 2 | I am more than a little confident that its fruition will be more than evident before the last kick of the season . |
| 3 | But I 'm more than a big girl , she cried silently , gazing at her face , devoid now of any make-up . |
| 4 | The observation of the Great Wall has come from an ambitious project to map the positions of all visible galaxies which are brighter than a specified minimum . |
| 5 | It is a written promise , which is better than a verbal one . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Indeed , the current legal minimum allowance of 450 square centimetres per bird gives the bird a space which is less than a page of this magazine . |
| 8 | An incident room staffed by 30 officers working full time on the case is being run at Martlesham police headquarters , which is less than a mile from the scene of crime . |
| 9 | Nor does the Athenaion Politeia say more than that on certain matters the Boule does not have the final decision ( xlv ) , which is less than a direct and triumphant assertion of the Assembly 's sovereignty . |
| 10 | The arrangements for the new style NHS assume a continuing need for a local organisation which is more than a tier of management . |
| 11 | ‘ We was in t'workhouse together and 'e 'll do as 'e 's told , which is more than a lot of 'usbands does . ’ |
| 12 | Well , you know , I always , I 'm always you have to drink two pints a day , which is more than a litre . |
| 13 | I occasionally got ten shillings , which was more than a week 's as much a week 's wages . |
| 14 | No doubt you 're very switched on , when it comes to good productivity but in case , like me , you are more than a touch muddy , here are some helpful hints . |
| 15 | You are more than a grandmother . |
| 16 | But if you are less than a writer of near genius , can you by simply describing what your policemen do , hold your readers spellbound ? |
| 17 | ‘ No , Miss Eyre , you are less than a servant , because you do not work , ’ replied Miss Abbott . |
| 18 | If anyone is less than a metre behind you , you lose a point ; if you are less than a metre behind anyone else , you gain a point . " |
| 19 | Even if you 're better than a master you still have to wait . |
| 20 | Since you 're more than a little accident prone at this time , exercise caution and be careful not to lead your owner into trouble . |
| 21 | If you were more than a reasonable time , they would claim that you were failing to work your beat , or gossiping — things like that . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Expect to hear lots more about Iris in the next year , 'cause she 's better than a million of those smug Nashville fat-cats . |
| 24 | You have to admit , she 's better than a kick in the wot-nots ! |
| 25 | The most important exception is found in regulation 3(c) which permits an action to be brought under the newly amended s.62 by a person who is other than a private investor where there has been a breach of rules prohibiting insider dealing . |
| 26 | Further , it should be now , not so much a bizarre , attention-grabbing death as the murder of someone who is more than a mere blood-bathed cadaver . |
| 27 | Above all , there is the doubt as to whether induction itself is more than a logical fiction to justify the generalizations which regularly spring from spontaneous analogization . |
| 28 | There is nothing in the later history of this laconic diarist ( who was my maternal grandmother ) that would suggest that she was other than a normal ‘ teenager ’ of her time . |
| 29 | But she was worse than a headmistress ; she was the Rector 's wife . |
| 30 | She was stronger than a roach , as strong as an ox . |