Example sentences of "[noun sg] than a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spot checks or random monitoring visits were felt by some societies to hold out more prospect of deterring and detecting fraud than a routine requirement to produce a six-monthly report — a view supported by FIMBRA . |
| 2 | In June 1964 , The Autocar 's testers remarked , ‘ In its appointments the Austin-Healey 3000 MkIII is now more or a touring car than a sports car . |
| 3 | Although it has a 25½″ scale this is much more a Gibson player 's neck than a Fender player 's , since it 's thin and very wide — 44mm at the nut . |
| 4 | The Crumps ' boat was a splendid , new affair , more fitted for a picnic than a fishing expedition , unusually comfortable and a pleasure to handle . |
| 5 | Whilst there may still be a feeling that a High Court writ will have a greater threatening effect on a recalcitrant defendant than a county court summons , inducing him or her to settle the claim , the changes to the costs rules , and the harmonisation of remedies , will lessen the attractiveness of such action . |
| 6 | Below Inside , comfortable armchairs , reading tables and daily newspapers made it more like a club than a travel agent 's office . |
| 7 | It is more of a social club than a riding school . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Fuzzy Peach ( ripe peach ) , Juba ( lemon and orange ) and Camomella ( camomile ) are on sale from February 18 — less ageist than a wrinkle cream ! |
| 10 | In reality , he was more of a third seamer than a strike bowler , and did the job only in the absence of a faster man , but he once took 6 for 38 in Australia and at Leeds in 1957 had his best Test figures of 7 for 70 . |
| 11 | In fact , a graph briefly shown at the announcement implied that Windows benchmark performance could be improved more substantially by slotting in the £385 video adaptor than a Pentium board . |
| 12 | There can be no greater cause of friction than a fund raising event losing money and having to be rescued by hard earned funds from other sources . |
| 13 | He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm . |
| 14 | Strictly speaking Orwell 's book is perhaps less an allegory than a conte philosophique like Voltaire 's Candide or Samuel Johnson 's Rasselas ; Swift 's Gulliver 's Travels is not far off here either , as a source , and it is certain that Orwell profoundly admired Swift , as Waugh admired Voltaire . |
| 15 | A partner or sole trader paying Schedule D income tax is able to claim more by way of expenses and allowances against income than a Schedule E person earning the same amount . |
| 16 | The beaches await but even if you consider yourself more of a sun worshipper than a sightseeing buff , you may be tempted to venture further afield , out to explore the rolling hills and picturesque cornfields which stretch across this region 's landscapes and conjure up images of some rich renaissance tapestry . |
| 17 | By the time they arrived in Budapest to play a Hungarian select , the Magpies had lost interest and were beaten 4–1 in what by all accounts was more like a pitched battle than a football match . |
| 18 | For some organisations objectives are rather more like a woman shopping than a man shopping . |
| 19 | Open-palmed they waved with no more sense of the use of hands to touch grasp or hold than a water plant ; infinitely gentle trailing things , the blind tendrils of a sea-anemone . |
| 20 | Twice as many women would prefer to have a baby girl than a baby boy |
| 21 | It 's more like an art gallery than a quilt show . |
| 22 | Middle-class professional man ; solicitor perhaps ; denizen of pine-and-heather country ; pepper-and-salt tweeds ; a moustache hinting — perhaps fraudulently — at a military past ; a sensible wife ; perhaps a little boating at weekends ; more of a gin than a whisky man ; and so on ? |
| 23 | Kano regarded his judo as more of a sport than a fighting system . |
| 24 | The following day the Irish Times headlined the company 's intention to remain in Ireland , giving it more prominence than a Cabinet statement . |
| 25 | The 27-year-old fashion queen ends up looking more like a cat burglar than a catwalk model in the 30-second ad . |
| 26 | ‘ Camels go on and on and on until they die ; and then one has the option of eating them , altogether far better tasting than a Michelin tyre , ’ writes Rene Dee in The Traveller 's Handbook . |
| 27 | This can be used to replace or supplement a cylinder overflow area ; it is a form of distributed free space that is more evenly available through the file than a cylinder overflow area . |
| 28 | Trollope thus praises Mr Thorne for continuing to inhabit the great hall at Ullathorne Court ( there is no dining-room ) , with no more concession to modernity than a modem grate , although it is now only the socially acceptable , not the humble , who come to the great front door that opens into it . |
| 29 | If you wanted to make the room seem more like a bedroom/sitting room than a study/library/dining room that will also accommodate a guest , you could make much more of the sofa bed and have a rectangular or drop-leaf table like a sofa table behind it . |
| 30 | This is an area where a diesel car scores very well and as it uses less fuel than a petrol car , it emits less noxious gas . |