Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm . |
| 2 | It is more of a social club than a riding school . |
| 3 | It was more like a medieval monastery than a home , thought Sarella , but , despite that , there was something rather magnificent about it . |
| 4 | What is especially surprising is that its motivation was less an emotional regard for historical associations than a belief in the value to science of archaeological remains . |
| 5 | It was a faint memory , usually ; more of a dim sensation than a picture , sliding imperceptibly into sleep . |
| 6 | Well like we , so we can try and e , with regards to the teams we 're probably a little bit more high profile than a lot of the other teams . |
| 7 | The game , if game there had been , had broken the constraints of rule , and there is nothing more reminiscent of chaos and old night than a game become uncontrolled . |
| 8 | Albert remarks , a touch sniffily : ‘ An evening at the Crazy Horse Saloon will always make for more compulsive viewing than a day in the life of a Benedictine monastery . ’ |
| 9 | More of a knock at the back door than a storming of the castle gate perhaps , but something is going right for Jon Solly . |
| 10 | Retentionists could not accept that a rapist who breaks into a house , violates his victim , and then kills in order to prevent her giving evidence against him , should be treated as having committed a lesser offence than a burglar who kills in the course of theft . |
| 11 | I know Wavebreaker 's got more electronic toys than a battleship , but if the electricity fails then you 're back to the sextant and the sharp pencil . ’ |
| 12 | What better protection for the rich world 's vanishing wildlife than a tract of land that stays untouched because people are frightened to visit ? |
| 13 | A group is a lesser thing than a team , which performs at a higher level of cohesion than a mere group needs to ( see Teams on page 161 ) . |
| 14 | Plumfield was young , and Kate thought he looked more like a social worker than a psychiatrist . |
| 15 | The summit 's concluding Declaration of Guadalajara was considered by analysts to be more of an historical document than a blueprint for combined action . |
| 16 | The essential difference , I feel , is that they are operated by humans in a much more direct way than a computer or beatbox . |
| 17 | Penrhyn Castle — More of a stately home than a castle , Penrhyn is a modern Victorian structure in Norman style . |
| 18 | Her disadvantages are : I. That she has less technical skill than a man and is not so useful all round . |
| 19 | Analysts point to the fact that far more beer is drunk at home on the Continent , which provides a more conducive atmosphere for low-alcohol products than a pub or bar . |
| 20 | According to the conventional British wisdom of the middle of the century , our flexible unwritten constitution , our democratic Parliament , the sense of fair play of our permanent civil service , and our vigorous and vigilant free Press were safer and more effective guarantees of personal freedom than a Continental or American-style ‘ government of judges ’ . |
| 21 | As a Scottish paper remarked at the time , it was not his first dismissal , ‘ Bremner has had more early baths than a miner on night-shift . ’ |
| 22 | At supper there is more likely to be a simple salad than a roast on the menu , which has the advantage of leaving you with more room to do proper justice to the pudding . |
| 23 | When it comes to earning a living there is no more enticing environment than a pub . |
| 24 | It was more of an annual rite than a business meeting , and always concluded with expressions of mutual goodwill and handshakes all round — provided the pub continued to show a profit . |
| 25 | He remained in detention during the rebellion but stated in a letter published in the press that he had been responsible for it , a claim which was interpreted more as a dramatic personal gesture than a statement of fact ; earlier reports stated that the rebellion had been such a surprise to him that he had requested a pistol in order to shoot himself . |
| 26 | Such desire for the other may be less the result of a desublimation of repressed desire than a consequence of desire itself being structured by social repression generally : thus the other may be cathected as ( an ) other beyond repression . |
| 27 | Thus a peroxide-bleaching process produces a less obnoxious effluent than a kier-boil-hypochlorite bleach , and change to the peroxide method might be advantageous provided that the resulting textile product and the costs were acceptable . |
| 28 | ‘ Mister , I do n't know 'ow to thank you , honest I do n't , you 've got more human kindness than a bishop . |
| 29 | In under ten weeks Watson , ‘ dressed in a plain business garb — rather more like a Scotch merchant than a minister ’ , had ninety-six engagements , mainly readings but including some lectures . |
| 30 | It is an interesting garment which , with its long sleeves , has the flavour more of a monastic habit than a shroud . |