Example sentences of "[be] [adv] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er , I get on the courses is the fact that that is very good attendance sort of thing for you to see T N T Express has been rather than a depot . |
| 2 | As she passed through the channel there had been less than a foot clearance between the ship 's sides and the concrete wharf . |
| 3 | the motive was to steal scrap metal from the company the amount of metal would have been less than a couple of hundred pounds so quite a minor incident in itself . |
| 4 | After two hours , I reached firmer ground but became concerned that I could not see a four hundred foot escarpment which , according to the map , should have been less than a mile ahead . |
| 5 | I realise that I had been less than a block away , watching the drugstore explode . |
| 6 | Had it really been less than a month ago ? |
| 7 | He could see the image clearly enough in his mind 's eye ( since that night no two rememberings had been more than a minute apart ) but even the most basic sketch eluded his hand . |
| 8 | It 's been more than a year since a report was published on their position . |
| 9 | Hardly any part of it stood more than waist high now , much was covered in grass or blackthorn bushes , and it could never have been more than a chapel anyway . |
| 10 | Yet he felt convinced it had been more than a dream . |
| 11 | The ‘ new ’ systems being used in the Gulf have all been more than a decade in development . |
| 12 | Nevertheless it is my belief that without us , feminism would never have been more than a caucus of the broad left . |
| 13 | I 've never been more than a dabbler but I 've always had an eye for a painter and I saw at once that he was one . |
| 14 | Since the press seem to take any and every chance they can to doubt his ability to play , this article , and indeed all your support over the last few months , has been more than a pleasure to read . |
| 15 | We do not know how they were elected ; but in practice it can hardly have been more than a co-optation . |
| 16 | The loser then was Ray Laccohee who might well have been more than a match for Dale overall had he played more competition golf . |
| 17 | An officer for nearly 40 years , he should have been more than a match for a 24-year-old civilian but the first brush between the two sides , though neither commander was present in person , suggested otherwise . |
| 18 | Send one of them to talk to this chap Jordan — Fowler will do it very well ; he 'd have been more than a match for the Ancient Mariner . |
| 19 | Mar was initially joined by eighteen lords , bringing with them some 5,000 men , which should have been more than a match for the 1,500 regular troops stationed in Scotland . |
| 20 | I mention these matters because they show that to accept the Woolwich principle in one or other of its forms would appear to involve a choice of what the law should be rather than a decision as to what it is . |
| 21 | Deep down I would regard a draw at both Coventry and Ipswich as being better than a win and a defeat . |
| 22 | ‘ Trumper , Private 7312087 , reporting as ordered , sir , ’ he bellowed , despite neither of them being more than a yard away from Captain Trentham . |
| 23 | This was n't a fair challenge , Harry being more than a head taller than Sam and built like an ox . |
| 24 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |
| 25 | In a dispassionate view , a century seems to have several advantages , as being more than a lifespan and being an evident but arbitrary division . |
| 26 | ‘ If it helps you make up your mind , Mrs Diamond , I should tell you that I 'm a friend of Heather 's rather than a friend of her family … if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 27 | Whilst cultural methods might be used to reduce the impact of some insect pests , they are by no means a reliable control and biological control of field pests is no than a pipe-dream at present . |
| 28 | Clouds towered on every side , and the attacking front was less than a mile to their left . |
| 29 | Her address was less than a mile from the shop , but Folly had asked Lisa to keep it until last in the route she had mapped out . |
| 30 | The beach was less than a furlong from the centre . |