Example sentences of "[adj] than a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visually the film is closer to a Babycham commercial than a Tenniel illustration . ’ |
| 2 | A spokesman said : ‘ There are ways of calming an aggressive drinker more acceptable than a head butt or kick between the legs . ’ |
| 3 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 4 | It covers such a wide variety of conditions that it is less specific than a weather forecast . |
| 5 | To close , I should like to quote from a source that especially some of us find more authoritative than a business man . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's so much more real than a gas boiler . |
| 7 | This proved too ambitious ; the Twenty-Second Session favoured separate texts for civil and for criminal matters , and a subsequent Expert Group , meeting in New Delhi in 1982 , decided that a model bilateral agreement in each of these areas was more appropriate than a draft convention . |
| 8 | A drop in voltage can be more serious than a power cut . |
| 9 | The BTU tax also has the advantage of being less unpopular than a petrol tax , partly because it is almost impossible to understand . |
| 10 | Lack of care is often repeated : ex-care women in their study were considerably more likely than a comparison group to suffer a breakdown in their own role as parents , resulting in one in five of their children also being admitted into institutional care . |
| 11 | Both mothers and fathers of children admitted into care were more likely than a comparison group to have a psychiatric disorder . |
| 12 | Transaction facilities are built into kiosks either by providing online or other forms of communication facilities , sometimes nothing more sophisticated than a voice telephone link , or by allowing on-site , consolidated storage of customer requests which can be manually collected at a later time . |
| 13 | And with the meditations , less perishable than a willow leaf , |
| 14 | AFM Michael Ferguson played the Dalek claw seen at the end of episode four , but although convincing to the audience , this claw was nothing more elaborate than a joke shop gorilla hand covered in grease . |
| 15 | Since electrical pulses zinging down a wire are more regular and predictable than a steel cable moving inside a plastic cover , the result should be more precise control of engine revs and better fuel consumption . |
| 16 | This attitude , especially in ‘ Sophia 's ’ case , may owe something to class-distinction , that is , a duke beating a duchess with a neck of mutton might prove less illustrative than a journeyman tailor doing such a thing to his wife . |
| 17 | This is a lot more effective than a ski jacket . |
| 18 | The front doors swung open like a piper at the gates of dawn and two of the biggest guys I 'd ever seen swaggered in wearing more black than a Valentine Dyall fan club dinner . |
| 19 | Plus your own gifts are far more useful than a plastic moustache , or a magnifying glass that does n't work . |
| 20 | If you arc prepared to invest a lot of time and money in your new kitchen you might consider making a sort of kitchen/living or family room ; a real ‘ heart of the home ’ area , more casual than a living room , more cosy than a working kitchen . |
| 21 | There 's nothing more irritating than a sales assistant who does n't know what he 's talking about . |
| 22 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |
| 23 | She could be described as prejudiced but she can no more be called a racist than a rape victim who hates men can be called sexist . |
| 24 | Remember as well that a hardwood frame is much more robust than a softwood equivalent . |
| 25 | From modesty to exuberance and one can scarcely get more exuberant than a water staircase ( Fig. 11 ) . |
| 26 | Some think this war is no more complicated than a Kansas City saloon brawl — that they can send the cavalry . ’ |
| 27 | The dragonfolk 's taste in clothing did n't run to anything much more imaginative than a leather harness , studded with bronze ornaments . |
| 28 | With a tank at the rear and a rear end impact , which is statistically more probable than a side impact , there is a greater risk of rupturing the even bigger capacity tank . |
| 29 | As a keen musician and clarinet player ( name your own musical instrument or say ‘ As one who appreciates music but can not play anything more difficult than a gramophone record , I was very impressed to learn ) I was delighted to learn that Annabelle 's uncle plays for the BBC orchestra ( or pop group , etc. ) , on the violin ( or drums ) . |
| 30 | However , when subjects had to decide whether the target sentence followed appropriately from the context , a sentence context should be more difficult than a word context since it presents the subject with a more complex piece of information . |