Example sentences of "[be] [adv] than [art] [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 | Yes , if you look at it in a certain light , as those philosophers are apt to who go on to say that there must ( 286 ) have been more than the sentence in my mind for it to be the case that I meant such and such . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But she knew that telling things the way you wanted them to be rather than the way they were did n't change anything for longer than the moment of the lie . |
| 23 | Yet she sensed that it might be like telling things the way you wanted them to be rather than the way they really were . |
| 24 | It is undoubtedly closer to being right than the view that Europe would be better off if the ERM collapsed altogether . |
| 25 | Deep down I would regard a draw at both Coventry and Ipswich as being better than a win and a defeat . |
| 26 | ‘ Trumper , Private 7312087 , reporting as ordered , sir , ’ he bellowed , despite neither of them being more than a yard away from Captain Trentham . |
| 27 | This was n't a fair challenge , Harry being more than a head taller than Sam and built like an ox . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In a dispassionate view , a century seems to have several advantages , as being more than a lifespan and being an evident but arbitrary division . |
| 30 | Almost men have at some time an intimation of being more than the material , and the appearance and personality . |