Example sentences of "[noun sg] than [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Better for a horse than for a man , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee with relish . |
| 2 | He did n't have to change , he simply had to present himself as more of a lovable reprobate than as a spirit of corruption ; PR was everything , as long as it did n't cross the thin line over into patronisation . |
| 3 | Lovers of a good strong cuppa may be interested to know that there may be more caffeine in a cup of tea than in a cup of coffee . |
| 4 | Believing their children will receive a better and more disciplined education , with a greater prospect of university entry than from a state school , many parents who can afford it send their children to such private institutions , known ( confusingly ) as " public schools . " |
| 5 | Even with a reserve , however , your rug may well realize more at auction than in a specialist shop . |
| 6 | The difference between these tax bases arises at the practical level in that some things are more easily measured as a stock than as a flow , for example the value of a painting . |
| 7 | One party would be returned to office with an overall majority and implement its manifesto program , a program neither known nor supported by most electors and one drawn up on the basis more of party dogma than of a dispassionate and well-informed analysis of Britain 's problems . |
| 8 | This is the distortion of perception referred to by Bruch , but I must add that in my case I see it less as a longstanding perceptual difficulty than as a consequence of my general state of confusion as to my self-image . |
| 9 | However , this is more surely an argument for adequate preparation than for a refusal to appear . |
| 10 | Bruce Forsyth and Jimmy Tarbuck have been more likely to be found together on the golf course than on a chat show in recent times . |
| 11 | Bruce Forsyth and Jimmy Tarbuck have been more likely to be found together on the golf course than on a chat show in recent times . |
| 12 | Bruce Forsyth and Jimmy Tarbuck have been more likely to be found together on the golf course than on a chat show in recent times . |
| 13 | Eventually , more as a matter of course than as a reward , he was made an Adjudicator ; judge , jury and executioner , all rolled into one . |
| 14 | However , in the specialised cells that support and nourish the fetus the immune reaction is greater against a mule fetus than against a horse fetus . |
| 15 | He was better placed in a university than in a school , and enjoyed more than he could have done in any other society the life of that great college , which was to be his home for the remainder of his life . |
| 16 | He 's far more likely to catch a chill standing about at a show or in the hunting field than after a bath , as long as you take the right precautions . |
| 17 | The next few miles are delectable and not to be hurried , and indeed are better appreciated by a traveller on foot than in a car . |
| 18 | Overall , within the culture of antislavery economic boycott and free-produce activities worked much less significantly as a way of drawing in support than as a mark which some abolitionists chose to display of their antislavery identity . |
| 19 | But the role and powers proposed are less those of an ombudsman than of a commissar . |
| 20 | Rudd 's promotions were probably attempts to remunerate a man who was of more value to the Tudor state as a cartographer than as a cleric . |
| 21 | For some , entering the market as consumers had more to do with necessity than with a growth in personal income . |
| 22 | In addition , the reader was provided with information more usually to be found in an encyclopaedia than in a dictionary . |
| 23 | In fact , it appears to have been due less to a plot than to a calculation that she could not win in a second ballot . |
| 24 | Today , 30 years after his death , Lewis is remembered more as the author of such enchanting children 's stories as The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe than as a writer and broadcaster on ethical and religious questions , but it is one of those BBC sermons which he delivers at the beginning of this play . |
| 25 | Of course some boys may be asked to perform some or all of these tasks , but I think that ( for historical rather than biological reasons ) the task of substitute-mothering is more likely to devolve upon a girl than upon a boy who is in a similar position within the family . |
| 26 | ( The cogs must fit the sinker posts which are closer together on a fine gauge than on a standard of course . ) |
| 27 | Its body was covered with a rough hair plagued with small ticks , and the skin was hardened with the scales of a fish , but its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man , for its hands were tense and agile , its eyes large and gloomy , and on its shoulder-blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodman 's axe . |
| 28 | Candy was right , she realised bleakly — part of her did want to get back where she belonged , and there was nowhere she felt more at home than on a stage . |
| 29 | Hence there is much less control by management than in a factory yet far more events about which decisions have to be taken . |
| 30 | In fact , even in the lower key , the tessitura of the part is much more comfortable for a countertenor than for a soprano . |