Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm . |
| 2 | It is more of a social club than a riding school . |
| 3 | It was more like a medieval monastery than a home , thought Sarella , but , despite that , there was something rather magnificent about it . |
| 4 | Such a right would give a monopoly in the program , thus protecting the underlying ideas more effectively than copyright , but the right would last for a shorter period than a patent , say 5 or 7 years maximum . |
| 5 | You will also need scissors , which are more convenient for this job than a knife . |
| 6 | It was a faint memory , usually ; more of a dim sensation than a picture , sliding imperceptibly into sleep . |
| 7 | Well like we , so we can try and e , with regards to the teams we 're probably a little bit more high profile than a lot of the other teams . |
| 8 | Bizarrely , it 's a pork butcher 's shop , and there 's more to this business than a bacon slicer and a few trays of pies . |
| 9 | A commission is an easier business than a tyde waiter or a land waiter ’ . |
| 10 | The game , if game there had been , had broken the constraints of rule , and there is nothing more reminiscent of chaos and old night than a game become uncontrolled . |
| 11 | Albert remarks , a touch sniffily : ‘ An evening at the Crazy Horse Saloon will always make for more compulsive viewing than a day in the life of a Benedictine monastery . ’ |
| 12 | More of a knock at the back door than a storming of the castle gate perhaps , but something is going right for Jon Solly . |
| 13 | Retentionists could not accept that a rapist who breaks into a house , violates his victim , and then kills in order to prevent her giving evidence against him , should be treated as having committed a lesser offence than a burglar who kills in the course of theft . |
| 14 | Lash and Urry are much less guilty of this offence than a group from whom they very specifically dissociate themselves — the proponents of ‘ post-industrialism ’ . |
| 15 | What better protection for the rich world 's vanishing wildlife than a tract of land that stays untouched because people are frightened to visit ? |
| 16 | A group is a lesser thing than a team , which performs at a higher level of cohesion than a mere group needs to ( see Teams on page 161 ) . |
| 17 | Plumfield was young , and Kate thought he looked more like a social worker than a psychiatrist . |
| 18 | The summit 's concluding Declaration of Guadalajara was considered by analysts to be more of an historical document than a blueprint for combined action . |
| 19 | The essential difference , I feel , is that they are operated by humans in a much more direct way than a computer or beatbox . |
| 20 | erm There 's a kind of assumption that if something , if somebody does something on a Sunday afternoon , for lack of better , something better to do or because it 's raining and golf is therefore , therefore off , that he therefore does it in a truer , sincerer way than a man who might be doing it as his career , for his income , to keep his family alive and so on . |
| 21 | Penrhyn Castle — More of a stately home than a castle , Penrhyn is a modern Victorian structure in Norman style . |
| 22 | Her disadvantages are : I. That she has less technical skill than a man and is not so useful all round . |
| 23 | According to the conventional British wisdom of the middle of the century , our flexible unwritten constitution , our democratic Parliament , the sense of fair play of our permanent civil service , and our vigorous and vigilant free Press were safer and more effective guarantees of personal freedom than a Continental or American-style ‘ government of judges ’ . |
| 24 | At supper there is more likely to be a simple salad than a roast on the menu , which has the advantage of leaving you with more room to do proper justice to the pudding . |
| 25 | When it comes to earning a living there is no more enticing environment than a pub . |
| 26 | It was more of an annual rite than a business meeting , and always concluded with expressions of mutual goodwill and handshakes all round — provided the pub continued to show a profit . |
| 27 | He remained in detention during the rebellion but stated in a letter published in the press that he had been responsible for it , a claim which was interpreted more as a dramatic personal gesture than a statement of fact ; earlier reports stated that the rebellion had been such a surprise to him that he had requested a pistol in order to shoot himself . |
| 28 | When I was about ten years old , a trip to the village from the South end was a bigger thrill than a trip to a big city would be to a present day child , later working in the village as a teenager , the dances every Saturday and Monday night was enjoyment never to be forgot . |
| 29 | It will be no nearer drama than a debate — although the participants and their teacher may deceive themselves quite happily . |
| 30 | Such desire for the other may be less the result of a desublimation of repressed desire than a consequence of desire itself being structured by social repression generally : thus the other may be cathected as ( an ) other beyond repression . |