Example sentences of "[adj] than a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
| 2 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 3 | Time was ‘ quicker than a shake of a lamb 's tail ’ . |
| 4 | Quicker than Sterland — but he was also quicker than a lot of defenders in those days . |
| 5 | Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out . |
| 6 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 7 | It was no more painful than a ring through a punk 's nose . |
| 8 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 9 | For me , this job is easier than a game of croquet … |
| 10 | Ah , no , I mean cos violence and drugs is more harmful than a load of girls , you know , doing stupid things on s street corner . |
| 11 | Also his playing career with us was far shorter than a lot of these blokes . |
| 12 | The love-sick dog went completely off his food , finding his loveable lump more appetising than a bowl of doggy chunks in gravy and soon he was reduced to skin and bone , a mere shadow of the beast his family had grown to know and love . |
| 13 | It just shows that there 's more to demo-making than a bunch of programmers having fun . |
| 14 | And even then it took a few more strangled moments before she could force her numbed brain to function with anything more coherent than a scream of anguish . |
| 15 | it is more private than a hearing in the civil courts — the press and public are not entitled to be present |
| 16 | Among the Nez Perce and Crow people , pieces of horn were glued together and bound with sinew to create a bow ‘ stronger , tougher , more elastic , and more durable than a bow of any other materials ’ . |
| 17 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 18 | The Northern Echo prompted a public outcry last year when it revealed how a night in the cells at Bishop Auckland police station cost £200 dearer than a room at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 19 | Not that she was admitting to anything more definite than a quiver of tingling excitement every time he came near her , of course . |
| 20 | I have never lived any nearer than a mile from a public bus and at one point it would be maybe two and a half miles from that bus , so my children , well my children are grown up now , but my children got nowhere or did nothing if I did n't drive nobody delivers the shopping nobody goes |
| 21 | A painting of a male head , which is almost certainly a study for the figure of the sailor that Picasso originally intended to place in the centre of the composition , while it is bolder and sketchier than a work like the Self-Portrait , shows all the earlier Iberian devices . |
| 22 | I can see them appealing to players who want to change from a rack unit crammed with sounds that are hardly ( if ever ) used , back to something which is as simple as , or even simpler than a row of pedals . |
| 23 | The boy was so small ; more like a child of eight than a boy of fifteen . |
| 24 | The masquerade of camp becomes less a self-concealment than a kind of attack , and untruth a virtue : many a young man , says Wilde , ‘ starts with the natural gift of exaggeration which , if encouraged could flourish . |
| 25 | An upholstered stool would be much more appropriate than a coffee-table for this attractive and scholarly volume . |
| 26 | Now that winter 's coming on , what would be more appropriate than a programme about low temperatures ? |
| 27 | It implies to young people that crack and cocaine are no more dangerous than a glass of wine , beer or spirits . |
| 28 | The third of my wildlife gift ideas is a magnifying glass , or better still , one of the new battery-powered pocket microscopes , no bigger than a couple of fountain pens . |
| 29 | When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea . |
| 30 | ‘ I have promised to take big fights all over the country and they come no bigger than a bout with a world title at stake , ’ Hearn said . |