Example sentences of "[adj] than [noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this is the Tetley Bitterworld of BIVOUAC , slightly inbred young Middle Englanders who would much rather plod their way to the top than dance with Nirvana , learns KEITH ‘ Plodcore ’ CAMERON . |
| 2 | Troy did , however , use one phrase that went a long way to describe the film 's great success , for he spoke of how it illustrated that ‘ an honest documentation of familiar American actualities becomes in a Hollywood film more absorbing than intrigue in Monte Carlo or pig-sticking in Bengal ’ . |
| 3 | No fabric is more comfortable than cotton and no cotton is more natural than cotton from America . |
| 4 | It is , however , no more paradoxical than speaking of John 's arm , when the arm in question is part of the John who is said to possess it ( or the chassis of the car , for ) . |
| 5 | The eastern marches were seen as a means by which internal German social and economic pressure could be relieved , where economic expansion was far more feasible than competition with France and Britain . |
| 6 | Those gold mines had stolen much more than gold from Africa . |
| 7 | Some say he is now no more than mayor of Mogadishu , retaining only the loyalty of his own Marehan clan and other Darode tribes . |
| 8 | To accept Nozick 's criticism is not to judge in favour of Nozick 's conception of justice against Rawls , any more than acceptance of Gilligan 's argument involves rejection of Kohlberg 's abstract principles of justice . |
| 9 | Colonies were very handy bargaining counters if a state wanted to concede something less important than territory in Europe , but it was hard to imagine that any country would want to take all of its rivals ' imperial possessions . |
| 10 | Lysis of M1-vac-infected T2/TAP1+2 cells was again less than lysis of M1-vac-infected T1 cells . |
| 11 | To make him no more than animal is to make him less than man in God 's likeness . |
| 12 | Jemson lasted less than half-an-hour on Saturday . |
| 13 | ‘ The first was for saving you from a fate worse than death with Doreen — but what was the second reason ? ’ |
| 14 | Water from Lambeth was much safer than water from Southwark further downstream . |
| 15 | Other than gold for Glamorgan ( 4 ) |
| 16 | Even more sharply , it is impossible for the majority of people to be other than black in South Africa as it became impossible to be other than Jewish for Jews in Nazi Germany . |
| 17 | Nice to see Stubby again ; Good God , the power structure in a town this size was more formidable than politics in New York City . |