Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Punchbag Better a has-Beam than a never-was |
| 2 | The masquerade of camp becomes less a self-concealment than a kind of attack , and untruth a virtue : many a young man , says Wilde , ‘ starts with the natural gift of exaggeration which , if encouraged could flourish . |
| 3 | More convincing is the idea of ‘ structured dependence ’ , which suggests that dependency in old age is more usually a social than a biological or individual creation . |
| 4 | " Socrates and Greek-Tragedy " was the immediate source of the central part ( 8-is ) , but was more a final than a preliminary version . |
| 5 | To many of her friends she seemed more a mystic than a likely scientist , despite her encyclopaedic knowledge of natural history ; a woman with religious respect for and understanding of the environment , an ecologist long before the term was widely known . |
| 6 | To the island inhabitants of Britain , such peoples remain distant ( though the English Channel constitutes now more a psychological than a physical barrier ) , with alien cultures , different interests , and different thought processes . |
| 7 | The initial hypothesis suggested above about baptism being more a social than a religious ceremony is so general and broad that it obviously can not be tested without being broken down into its constituent parts . |