Example sentences of "[adj] than a [noun sg] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most characters are simply sketched types rather than carefully constructed characters : the beautiful young wife , either licentious or honest but nearly always cunning ; the prostitute ; the husband , more often foolish than wise ; the lover , more likely to be clever than a husband is . |
| 2 | Well it , I mean let's face it it is n't gon na be no bigger than a clock is it ? |
| 3 | Here semi-formal learning still takes place in semi-formal learning centres , heavily intermediated by each learner 's powerful , portable , personal micro , a machine no more costly than a calculator is now . |
| 4 | A furniture shop which has been in business for more than a century is closing down . |
| 5 | More than a kilo in n it ? |
| 6 | Most of this level is involved in the physical functioning of our bodies — breathing , circulation , heartbeat and so on — and no more than a quarter is available for dealing with our conscious thought processes . |
| 7 | They 're the only times really and as with the I B M the I B M people 's the company I B M said if it 's more than a page is it really worth sending it out . |
| 8 | A diving whale may store more than 40 per cent of its oxygen intake in its muscles , far more than a human is capable of . |
| 9 | Pan Am says more than a sale is involved ; it has a new marketing deal with United that will help prop up its other operations . |
| 10 | I occasionally got ten shillings , which was more than a week 's as much a week 's wages . |
| 11 | Again the short answer is simple , but this time the other way about : because the wages paid to a " compess " , while less than a man 's , were high compared to the wages a girl could earn elsewhere . |
| 12 | Bound to be cos litre 's l bit less than a gallon in n it ? |
| 13 | Worse than a child in n it ? |
| 14 | Their bite is worse than a horse 's — |
| 15 | an octave higher than a blackbird 's , |
| 16 | They regard the screen/keyboard interface as no more unnatural than a book is to earlier generations . |