Example sentences of "[adj] than a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sit at the back of a bluegrass concert in 80 of Kentucky 's 121 counties , and you will drink nothing more alcoholic than a tall glass of orange juice . |
| 2 | It will give us that much longer to get to know one another and it will be much more interesting than a 12-hour flight . ’ |
| 3 | Also [ WEA branch members ] have the reputation in official circles of being so ‘ dreadfully earnest ’ — more an indication of the frivolous attitude that all education must be made palatable to be consumable than a valid criticism of their activities . |
| 4 | The sight of such an expanse of tiny squares , flowing up and around his massive elevation , produced more of an architectural than a sartorial impression . |
| 5 | The monk , nun or vicar could , for example , be described as a more involved member than the old lady who attends Matins each Sunday ; she , in turn , is more involved than those who go to church only at Christmas and Easter ; and they are probably more committed than the sailor who , when he fills out C of E on a form , is more likely to be making a cultural than a religious statement . |
| 6 | An absolute prohibition against assignment is less popular than a qualified prohibition which requires a landlord not to withhold consent unreasonably . |
| 7 | The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’ |
| 8 | Believe me , when you are hungry , really hungry , so that your stomach clings to your backbone , nothing is more tasty than a succulent rat or a well-roasted leg of cat ! ] |
| 9 | The Dover Harbour Board argued in the early 1980s that ferries would be both cheaper and more reliable than a fixed link , a stance later adopted by the Flexilink consortium of ferry companies in its attempts to convince Parliament that the Channel Tunnel would be a financial disaster . |
| 10 | Even as you were ordering the march of your troops you made some of those sudden discoveries which throw more light than a painstaking analysis . |
| 11 | Not very much is known about Lloyds so it 's somewhat more mystical than an ordinary club . |
| 12 | The researcher engaged in the social study of baptism may well decide at an early stage of the study that in modern British society baptism is more of a social than a religious ceremony . |
| 13 | The initial hypothesis suggested above about baptism being more a social than a religious ceremony is so general and broad that it obviously can not be tested without being broken down into its constituent parts . |
| 14 | I use Glodex glazing plastic ( from DIY stores ) which is more rigid than a commercial condensation tray , and also does not discolour if used under a hood fitted with light bulbs . |
| 15 | Though each portrait was essentially a straightforward head-shot , we are given far more to muse over than a strange face . |
| 16 | Arguably , though , the achievement of five O levels at a sitting was more demanding than a piecemeal collection of A levels . |
| 17 | Well i it were like a proper , er i in fact , they were more professional than a proper salon . |
| 18 | Gertrude 's lush memoir might well be fanciful : what , after all , is more sentimentally alluring than a dead genius and an adolescent beach holiday ? |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Generally speaking , it is less common for a woman to join a rural than an urban trade union and women who do participate are not so conscious of their exploitation at work and in the home . |
| 21 | This is not an option for having more of an emotional than an intellectual life , but of being wholly for God . |
| 22 | But it has never been shown that induction is logically more respectable than a formalized argument from analogy , indeed that induction from some particulars leading to deduction of others is anything else but a roundabout argument from analogy . |
| 23 | WHEN a teenager talks about popping in to the travel agents , parents should realise they may be intending to buy something more mind-bending than a cheap break . |
| 24 | Nor is it sensible to argue , as the Treasury has , that a European system of central banks in charge of a single currency might prove more inflationary than a fixed exchange rate system where each monetary authority competed to provide a stable benchmark of value . |
| 25 | This alloy is naturally silvery in colour and is much more hard-wearing than a thin layer of tinning , but it requires a high degree of skill to control the casting conditions . |
| 26 | She paid her ten pence at the glass cage of the entrance booth , to a young man who could not possibly be the custodian , Great-Uncle Alan 's contemporary , but was clearly something rather more scholarly than a mere gate-keeper . |
| 27 | The wattage of the tool makes it much more versatile than a basic heat gun , and a range of uses are possible — from warming plastics for bending , to soft soldering of metal pipe connections . |
| 28 | However , it is worth noting that unstressed syllables containing , , or a syllabic consonant will sound less prominent than an unstressed syllable containing some other vowel . |
| 29 | Thus , on the eve of the second British Reform Act of 1867 , James Bryce noted that " the social progress of democracy has outrun its political progress " , which was ominous because " there is nothing more dangerous than a democratic society without democratic institutions " . |
| 30 | Perhaps you saw the Shell poster with the headline : " Nothing is more dangerous than a wet Zebra . " |