Example sentences of "[be] [adj] than an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ask away , oh anxious one , for you are lovelier than an aardvark and I can deny you nothing , ’ said the seal , whisking the waves into a fountain with her mighty tail . |
| 2 | Such an order has inheritance tax advantages ( if dissolution of the marriage has taken place ) , a saving in the HM Land Registry fees is available ( see Chapter 3 and generally ) and , as any financial provision can be expressed in the order to be in full and final settlement of the wife 's claims ( see Chapter 11 ) , it is less likely to be upset than an agreement between the parties not carried into a " consent order " ( see for instance Dinch v Dinch [ 1987 ] 1 WLR 252 where the court refused to make a further order on the grounds that the consent order had conclusively determined the rights of the parties in the matrimonial home ) . |
| 3 | The interest rate is fixed at drawdown and related to Money Market rates so can be cheaper than an overdraft . |
| 4 | The talks were clearly to be more than an exchange of courtesies , for Vansittart , Hoare 's permanent under-secretary , was to be present for them . |
| 5 | Art has to be more than an ornament , or a reinforcement . |
| 6 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 7 | Normally Baccy would have come in closer but the wind was onshore and the storm could n't be more than an hour away . |
| 8 | I told Neil I would n't be more than an hour and he gets fussy if I 'm late because of the Whistler . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I promise I wo n't be more than an hour . |
| 10 | Grading is a method of achieving a shorthand synthesis of every possible quality that one might wish to be included in a profile , consolidated into a symbol which examiners understand pragmatically with reference to a platonic point of reference existing in the minds of a group of examiners who have worked together , while a profile , however detailed , can never be more than an attempt to put down all those qualities . |
| 11 | She wanted to be more than an outsider in ‘ La Felicità ’ , more than a vague summertime nuisance for whose sake the family had to go travelling , someone only to be communicated with by notes or as a new source of rent . |
| 12 | I have to say that I can not at present conceive of any circumstances in which this would be other than an abuse of power as directly or indirectly requiring the practitioner to act contrary to the fundamental duty which he owes to his patient . |
| 13 | ‘ I must say , ’ the woman said to the man , ‘ I 'm surprised than an animal like that can appreciate this film . ’ |
| 14 | If the prevailing rate of interest were greater than an individual 's conception of the normal rate , that individual would expect the rate of interest to fall in the near future . |
| 15 | The sky is further than an eye . |
| 16 | In the case of a severe burn , that is one that is larger than an inch in diameter , the rule is the same : cool first , cover later , and in this instance start to cool as quickly as possible to prevent the burn spreading into the surrounding tissue . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'd think , ’ she said to herself , ‘ that the larger the tree , the larger the seed , like eggs — but a chestnut is larger than an acorn. , |
| 18 | For example , a loose-leaf binder is better than an exercise book because you can shuffle and re-classify your notes for tutorials , essay-writing and later exam revision . |
| 19 | Democracy might not be much , in his view , but everything else is worse ; and a robber-baron , as he once remarked to the Marxist scientist J. B. S. Haldane , is better than an inquisitor , since greed sleeps easier than dogmatic certainty : ‘ where Mammon vacates the throne , how if Moloch takes his place ? ’ |
| 20 | But the new Agatha Christie Society is more than an outlet for affectionate memories . |
| 21 | Learning an old language — Middle English , Old French , Latin — is more than an exercise in matching modern word for old word . |
| 22 | Their land is more than an address , it is a territory . |
| 23 | Yet our strength is more than an army 's . |
| 24 | The offer is , apparently , to refund 20% of a fare if a train is more than an hour late . |
| 25 | Studies by others on stained tissue using the electron probe and the proton probe , which is more than an order of magnitude more sensitive , have failed to confirm these findings . |
| 26 | The rhetorical approach emphasizes that any attitude is more than an expression in favour of a position : it is also implicitly or explicitly an argument against a counter-position . |
| 27 | Programme evaluation is more than an examination of the manner in which a programme is implemented . |
| 28 | Gooch 's story is also a complex one , with the South African affair and its long-running repercussions , the perennial dilemma between touring and fulfilling family commitments , and the traumas and triumphs of his captaincy of Essex and England ; this is more than an account of his Trojan feats on the field . |
| 29 | It is more than an atlas : it is a superbly illustrated synopsis of the characteristics of the major tropical diseases , their infective agents , their ecology , their life cycles and their vectors … probably the best value for money for anyone interested in obtaining an illustrated guide to tropical medicine and medical parasitology . " |
| 30 | For Conrad , this is as it should be : that see means both to perceive and to comprehend is more than an accident of metaphor . |