Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] than [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And their larger than life goalkeeper Joe Paladino , born in St Helens of Scilian parents , admitted : ‘ Altrincham 's Cup tradition is always at the back of our minds . |
| 2 | When a circus comes to town they send in the stars … so who better than Desert Orchid to lead the festival parade into Cheltenham … |
| 3 | It 's party time — and who better than Fats Domino , Johnny Tillotson , Little Eva and the rest to set the mood and get everyone dancing ? |
| 4 | Tonight 's entertainment takes the form of a knockout darts competition , and your host for the evening is none other than TV superstar Jim Bowen . |
| 5 | IT 'S the Paul Gascoigne of his day … none other than TV pundit Jimmy Greaves . |
| 6 | None other than failure-in-England Ally McCoist , who scored nine goals in 47 appearances for Sunderland . |
| 7 | It is aspiring to know that the Offload page can save a person 's credibility — none other than BASW chairperson , Graham Thompson . |
| 8 | Also , am I right in saying that the aforementioned album features none other than NME man Sherman ? |
| 9 | That maidservant you murdered so readily was none other than Anne Duchess of York — bride to the younger prince . ’ |
| 10 | THE new captain of Preston Grasshoppers is none other than England lock WADE DOOLEY , which wold suggest that — at least at club level — the ‘ Blackpool Tower ’ has every intention of playing on for a little while . |
| 11 | That was what was happening though , and the foot in question belonged to none other than mine hostess . |
| 12 | None other than Food Label entrepreneur ANDY ROSS . |
| 13 | He 'll be on duty for his country for the 86th time … and that 's one more than Chelsea defender Mal Donaghy , of the current batch our highest capped player . |
| 14 | He 'll be on duty for his country for the 86th time … and that 's one more than Chelsea defender Mal Donaghy , of the current batch our highest capped player . |
| 15 | The need for flexibility in plan making was stressed ; something more than land use maps were required and they had to be more responsive to the rapid changes then being experienced in the 1960s in terms of economic and social trends , population forecasts and traffic growth . |
| 16 | Thus we can see that there is a broad variety of approaches which we may group under the heading of ‘ natural law theories ’ because they all rely on something other than state law to constitute the valid rules of a legal system . |
| 17 | If only she drank something other than herb tea . |
| 18 | Such thorough excavators probably need something other than undergravel filtration |
| 19 | With breast-fed babies who are thought to have food sensitivity , the first step is to check that it is not something other than breast milk causing the problem . |
| 20 | And you can manufacture bucketfuls of this marvellous stuff from nothing more than kitchen waste . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , a little humility does not ill become the social scientist , and a contribution to theory , no matter how small , which derives from careful enquiry , is more worthy of the accolade ‘ scholarship ’ than is the sweeping generalization based upon nothing more than armchair speculation . |
| 22 | There are stick insects that look like twigs , butterflies that resemble bird droppings , seahorses that appear to be pieces of floating seaweed , moths that look like bark and frogs that seem to be nothing more than leaf litter on the forest floor . |
| 23 | Yet so far I seem to have been treating nothing worse than chicken pox and ‘ flu . |
| 24 | There 's nothing worse than stomach ache |
| 25 | He hated to see a dripping tap , and nothing made him angrier than Blackpool Tower blazing with , what to him was , utterly squandered energy . |
| 26 | If I wanted to be happy I should have avoided the pub altogether , or at least had nothing stronger than mineral water . |
| 27 | Note that suppliers are not obliged to offer anything more than cash compensation . |
| 28 | With so much land to be disposed of , it was hard to make them put up with anything less than freehold tenure , and so it was almost impossible for the proprietors to make very much out of their estates . |
| 29 | The tasks identified for coordinators by the Authority could not be carried out with anything less than enactor status . |
| 30 | Have you ever wanted to do anything other than play music ? |