Example sentences of "[noun] than an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much taller was this polar bear than an average man ? |
| 2 | A company swimming pool is a far better investment than an extravagant advertising campaign . |
| 3 | With regard to second-hand values , a good pipe organ is a better investment than an electronic instrument . |
| 4 | Generally , this method , however , I believe is more useful for studying the human condition than an experimental approach which looks at behaviour as the result of manipulation of variables . |
| 5 | In practice , you will seldom find it easy to show that you have suffered in that way and , in particular , you are not entitled to compensation to reflect the emotional distress than an unjust dismissal may well cause both you and your family . |
| 6 | This means in turn that they must be shining almost unbelievably brightly — perhaps 100 or more times than an average galaxy . |
| 7 | It reads more like a series of loosely joined essays than an integrated work . |
| 8 | After cooking supper that was more like a banquet than an ordinary meal he played us some medieval things on the organ and then some Elizabethan things on the clavichord . |
| 9 | The smoke from most cigars and pipe tobaccos has a higher tar content than that from cigarettes but because most life-long cigar and pipe smokers do not inhale , they take in less tar than an average cigarette smoker . |
| 10 | The smoke from most cigars and pipe tobaccos has a higher tar content than that from cigarettes but because most life-long cigar and pipe smokers ( ‘ primary smokers ’ ) do not inhale , they take in less tar than an average cigarette smoker . |
| 11 | In such contests everyone concerned was fully aware that there was much more at stake than an annual office . |
| 12 | Remembering that the step length of a motor is inversely proportional to the number of rotor teeth ( Chapter 1 ) , we see that a short step-length motor gives a smaller static position error than an equally-loaded motor with the same peak static torque but longer step length . |
| 13 | Executive responsibility — as part of a team the solicitor has the opportunity to participate to a greater degree than an outside solicitor in the commercial decisions resulting from advice . |
| 14 | Certainly the Becket conflict had wider repercussions than an insular struggle between English king and archbishop and the principles and arguments in the quarrel were widely discussed , for there were deeper issues relative to the nature of authority . |
| 15 | I think I would actually like to pursue that point Group Captain but I I think I 'd rather pursue it in in the closed session than an open session . |
| 16 | Distribution problems have probably caused more deaths from starvation in recent years than an actual shortage of food . |
| 17 | For the cichlid community aquarium they are a boon as they will remove all and any debris in the water , have a large filtering area and therefore can hold much more waste than an internal filter . |
| 18 | The advantages in the use of cylinder-type batteries are that such batteries have no snap terminal to splay or fold under , and they have more stamina when used as a group than an equivalent voltage single PP3 . |
| 19 | What were once thought of as " mere " political " forms " are now recognized to be of far greater potential and actual importance than an exclusive concentration on economic and social power might suggest . |
| 20 | Laura was not in a great hurry to find a new designer if only because it was dawning on her that the company needed more of a skilled copier than an original artist . |
| 21 | Any puzzling ruff-sized wader is much more likely to be a Ruff than an American vagrant . |
| 22 | The back kick is more of a thrusting kick than an actual kick in itself . |
| 23 | However , although heterogeneous catalysis is still more an empirical art than an exact science , its usefulness can not be overstated . |
| 24 | It too was reduced to quoting the Pilkington Committee 's view that ‘ though standards exist and are recognisable , broadcasting is more nearly an art than an exact science . |
| 25 | Finally , there also seemed to be some evidence than an internal bias towards helplessness ( similar to Seligman 's concept ) was implicated at some stage , in making PMP more likely or leading to poor coping responses . |
| 26 | An advantage of this technique is that the teacher can decide while using the program what level of exercises to generate — the computer program offers a great deal more flexibility in this respect than an ordinary textbook . |
| 27 | Apart from the grants to a local authority over which the Central Government exercise control and such other controls as are provided by legislation , the Central Government is in no stronger a position to take action against the local authority than an individual citizen — both have the same right to go to the courts to prevent illegal expenditure by ‘ relator action ’ at the instance of the Attorney-General of the Crown . |
| 28 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |
| 29 | Even in the Principality , Webster is regarded as much more a blindside flanker than an authentic openside wing forward . |
| 30 | There 's only one thing less attractive to the media than an angry woman . |