Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greg had been little better than a crook on the business front — and he had very nearly dragged her father — and his stupendous talent — down with him . |
| 2 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 3 | Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions . |
| 4 | We said that non-standard forms are rarely more than a social irritant to some people , and that there are few situations where such forms could cause real communication problems . |
| 5 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 6 | Many World War One Aerodromes are little more than a folk memory kept alive by such names as Aerodrome Cottages at Hadleigh in Suffolk . |
| 7 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 8 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 9 | There had been no horror particular to Toulouse to explain that extraordinary fear ; the battle had been less threatening than a half-dozen of the Spanish engagements , yet Sharpe had never forgotten the awful fear , nor his relief when peace had been declared . |
| 10 | Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested . |
| 11 | Also I did n't have much money , and barn owls are much cheaper than a lot of birds of prey . |
| 12 | Legalised exports of waste from rich countries to poorer ones are much better than a black market . |
| 13 | The establishment of compatibility is slower and it remains less stable when the two animals are both of high initial dominance ; thus two males are less compatible than a male — female dyad . |
| 14 | Thus they are less daunting than a large pipe organ to the ‘ reluctant organist ’ . |
| 15 | Alternative ( indirect ) models are less probable than a direct contact model involving the C-terminal part of α and the 156–162 loop of CRP at lac . |
| 16 | Are less inconstant than a Woman 's Soul : |
| 17 | They are less welcome than a troop of ticket inspectors . |
| 18 | I am scarcely more than a child . |
| 19 | To grant these rights and judicial privileges to corporations ( and other organizations ) is simply to give them additional resources for a judicial battle in which many , particularly the transnationals , are already more than a fair match for national state regulatory agencies . |
| 20 | Even clothes for ‘ the larger woman ’ are usually modelled on women who are scarcely more than a size 12 . |
| 21 | The degradation of many soils such as those in East Anglia , England , to the extent that they are scarcely more than a physical retention medium for chemical fertiliser and moisture ( Kirkby 1980 ) , does not have the same social and economic impact as degradation of soils where the land users do not have , and may be predicted not to have in the future , the resources to make good the degradation by the application of massive doses of fertiliser ( see also Heathcote 1980 , Rennie 1982 ) . |
| 22 | You 're little more than a girl . |
| 23 | ‘ It seems to me that you 're more dangerous than a jungle full of tigers . ’ |
| 24 | Using a theoretical model originally suggested by Dixit ( 1987 ) , the UK quota has been shown to have been more restrictive than a tariff-equivalent quota , while the EC minimum import price was less restrictive than an optimal tariff . |
| 25 | Some issues are more complex than a television-style presentation allows . |
| 26 | Certain specifications allow the use of High , Expanded , or Extended memory , but MS-DOS 5 leaves you with up to 621K of the original 640K to use and programs that require more than this are more complex than a new PC owner should initially be concerned with . |
| 27 | Both are more refreshing than a toner — and more effective methods of removing the last traces of make-up and oil . |
| 28 | In practice , says the review , ‘ such securities are more liquid than a fixed-period bank deposit with a maturity of less than three months , although the latter falls within the definition of cash equivalents ’ . |
| 29 | Groups have multiple goals , are more enduring than a coalition and usually involve more members . |
| 30 | Few things are more poignant than a holiday romance , and we 're very happy to say that over the years we 've brought more than a few couples together who are now living happily every after . |