Example sentences of "[noun sg] than a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Danish eluded her but the tone of voice nearer a growl than a polite question suggested she was being asked to state her business . |
| 2 | Feeling reflective and pensive we are more likely to reach for a sensitive ultramarine or restful cobalt than a stinging chrome yellow or vivid lime . |
| 3 | How much taller was this polar bear than an average man ? |
| 4 | The noise of the pump can be reduced by reducing the output using the regulator , giving a quieter result than a small pump running flat out . |
| 5 | A company swimming pool is a far better investment than an extravagant advertising campaign . |
| 6 | With regard to second-hand values , a good pipe organ is a better investment than an electronic instrument . |
| 7 | Generally , this method , however , I believe is more useful for studying the human condition than an experimental approach which looks at behaviour as the result of manipulation of variables . |
| 8 | This gives a crisper , brighter light than a normal light bulb , and is used outside for floodlights and inside for uplighters . |
| 9 | I suspect because Cecil , unlike David Mellor , worked out early on that appearing vulnerable was a far better ace card than a contrived display of clever-clogs defiance . |
| 10 | Also , with less length of board in the water , the board becomes more manoeuvrable ( just as a short car has a tighter lock than a long estate model ) . |
| 11 | The ‘ hybrid ’ looks less like a controlled experiment than a hasty effort to balance political opposites . |
| 12 | As reported by the chief naval engineer of the Germania yards , the rotor ship handled beautifully and was able to tack a full 20 degrees closer to the wind than a commercial sailing ship . |
| 13 | We are also at an advantage in having a Data Protection Act , which is more use in practice than a vague bill of rights . |
| 14 | ‘ Next to the Devil you have no more bitter , more poisonous , more vehement an enemy than a real Jew who earnestly desires to be a Jew . ’ |
| 15 | It is evident that the priests who served St Martin knew how to jade a horse and to attribute its state to the saint 's intervention ; and if Gibbon had had the slightest suspicion of how the miracle had been performed he would have used a much stronger form of irony than a mere italicizing of the word itself . |
| 16 | A rocky shore almost certainly provides a clearer echo than a sandy slope or mud flat . |
| 17 | A record set and then unset could ultimately have a more detrimental financial effect than a bad debt . |
| 18 | Both are built to last , for sure , but it 's engineering that seems more appropriate to BR rolling stock than a luxury car . |
| 19 | In practice , you will seldom find it easy to show that you have suffered in that way and , in particular , you are not entitled to compensation to reflect the emotional distress than an unjust dismissal may well cause both you and your family . |
| 20 | David Mann , managing director of Logica , wrote in an editorial that the BCS ‘ is regarded as more of an enthusiast 's club than a professional institution and is considered to have an academic bias with insufficient relevance to the problems of implementing real-life industrial and commercial systems . ’ |
| 21 | Intended as a place where DEA and CIA agents could meet unobserved with informants and clients , as a message drop for CIA arms dealers supplying Iraq and the Afghan rebels , as a waiting room for DEA CIs and couriers from Lebanon , and as a transit point , not just for heroin , but for cash , documents and bootleg computer software moving to and fro along the Beirut — Nicosia — US pipeline , Eurame , as run by El-Jorr , was more like a low-life social club than a secret intelligence centre . |
| 22 | I 've got more of an athletic figure than a womanly figure — and I 've hardly any waist ’ |
| 23 | And by the time Lamb had bludgeoned England to safety ( and himself to a Test-best score ) , ably supported by Russell , Gooch 's closure was more in hope than a genuine expectation of victory . |
| 24 | Ramsay was perhaps less respectful towards this lofty assemblage than a young knight ought to have been , in his concern for the Berwick situation . |
| 25 | A mild recession may cause far more economic damage than a one-day stockmarket fall of , say , 25% , but it is much less unsettling . |
| 26 | However , in the early 1980s , anti-Communism per se is probably more of a nagging difficulty than a significant obstacle to trade , at least at governmental level . |
| 27 | Either arbitration or litigation would have taken more time and cost more money than a successful reference to an expert . |
| 28 | Beggars ca n't be choosers : better to depend even on dubious private money than a criminal state |
| 29 | You 'll find that quite often this sort of selective improvement will give a room the new look it needs for far less money than a drastic change-around . |
| 30 | Encouraging dialogue between individual parent and individual teacher so that each child can be given specific help and encouragement , discussion between parent and teacher being seen as a better way of evaluating progress than a written report . |