Example sentences of "[adj] than a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plus , living proof that you CAN get quicker than a Kwik-Fit fitter . |
| 2 | Visually the film is closer to a Babycham commercial than a Tenniel illustration . ’ |
| 3 | His head was probably tougher than a brass doorknob . |
| 4 | At 3.9m long it is shorter than a slalom kayak but has all the features of the original Kiwi , making it ideal for family and disabled use . |
| 5 | A spokesman said : ‘ There are ways of calming an aggressive drinker more acceptable than a head butt or kick between the legs . ’ |
| 6 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 7 | It covers such a wide variety of conditions that it is less specific than a weather forecast . |
| 8 | To close , I should like to quote from a source that especially some of us find more authoritative than a business man . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's so much more real than a gas boiler . |
| 10 | This proved too ambitious ; the Twenty-Second Session favoured separate texts for civil and for criminal matters , and a subsequent Expert Group , meeting in New Delhi in 1982 , decided that a model bilateral agreement in each of these areas was more appropriate than a draft convention . |
| 11 | Under her left breast , whose pale skin was only just beginning to give up its bloom to death , was a tiny , dark-red blob , no bigger than a sand flea . |
| 12 | That evening in their room a low table no bigger than a music stool was set with food . |
| 13 | Called the ‘ Pond Protection Kit ’ , it 's a mini-electric fence system powered by four Duracell batteries housed within a plastic box no bigger than a pint pot . |
| 14 | In a garden no bigger than a pint pot , Bill moran proves that small can always be beautiful . |
| 15 | This dilemma for a game with millions of followers worldwide has proved to be a ‘ bunch of sixes ’ opportunity for Welsh inventor Don Hughes , a self-confessed liardice buff , who claims to have beaten the Far East electronics industry literally at its own game by developing an electronic version that is hardly bigger than a credit card . |
| 16 | Is that bigger than a tennis court ? |
| 17 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 18 | There were no houses , no people , no hills , and not a rock bigger than a cricket ball . |
| 19 | A sphere of hard solid rubber not much bigger than a golf ball and jammed like a cork in the pharynx , effectively blocking the trachea , I scrabbled feverishly at the wet smoothness but there was nothing to get bold of . |
| 20 | The lift was a little bigger than a phone box . |
| 21 | It contained a silver box no bigger than a pocket calculator , cushioned in the centre of a layer of spongy foam . |
| 22 | Most days there was that colour spread from the shore to the sky , bigger than a horse trough . |
| 23 | And even if I did have and had a mustard seed here , you still would n't be able to see it for a mustard seed is no bigger than a pin head . |
| 24 | Shuttling between stacks and players are ‘ intelibots ’ , battery-driven , wheeled robots no bigger than a shoe box . |
| 25 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 26 | Faith no bigger than a mustard seed . |
| 27 | Before he left Larnaca airport on a US Navy helicopter for the hop over to the American Embassy in East Beirut , his briefcase was rigged with a microchip Gigaherz transmitter no bigger than a butter biscuit . |
| 28 | Heavier than a machine gun ! |
| 29 | What could be nicer than a summer picnic ( preferably involving a bicycle ride ) of fresh baguette , ripe Brie or Camembert and a bottle of vin de table ? |
| 30 | A drop in voltage can be more serious than a power cut . |