Example sentences of "[art] [noun] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man who became 40 just before or just after 1 January 1986 is much more likely to contribute a death to the numerator than a man who became 40 in the early days of 1985 or the last days of 1986 . |
| 2 | Doubtless Beatrix Potter felt it was a neater finish to the story than a vasectomy . ’ |
| 3 | Fast though they run , they all keep in step , so that the whole group looks more like a snake gliding through the undergrowth than a family of young mammals on an outing . |
| 4 | Transparency itself is left as a relatively flexible concept : more of a commercial decision for the exchange than a matter of regulatory principle . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Assuming that Sophronia is an upper servant , the poem draws no closer to the owners than a description of the room where Biron sleeps and where , Timon-like , he keeps his unread books . |
| 7 | But when the chips are down and he 's feeling blue , Charlie sees himself as ‘ The Maryhill Hermit ’ , a victim of his public image , and a man who would rather have a quiet night with the wife than a night out with the wild bunch . |
| 8 | Things had been ticking along nicely between them , just as long as she 'd been prepared to forget that she wanted more out of the relationship than a roll in the hay and a bright ‘ cheerio ’ at the airport . |
| 9 | Martin Lee , leader of the United Democrats of Hong Kong , said that he hoped that a politician would be more receptive to the will of the people than a diplomat . |
| 10 | Carried by so small a man , the camera 's lens would often be no higher from the ground than a child 's eye and he could approach them on their own level . |
| 11 | No sooner had the plane risen into the air than a door flew open revealing a square of blue sea , and a concealed cargo of contraband slid across the floor . |
| 12 | The ‘ kick-point ’ related to the shape of the shaft at the point of impact ; a shaft with a low kick-point shows a greater curvature near the tip than a shaft with a high kick-point . |
| 13 | In this land of the lawyer , there is no more appropriate place for picking up the social , business and political threads of the city than a spectacle viewed from the public benches of a federal court . |
| 14 | Mr. Routley added : ‘ We believe that a charitable trust dedicated to conserving railways is better equipped to revive the WHR than a county council . |
| 15 | It is in the first place striking that in the Old French fabliaux , a male rival or spoiler is more commonly the butt of the humour than a female , though examples of the latter situation are reasonably numerous . |
| 16 | No sooner hat the dish been taken from the oven than a tortoiseshell cat entered the room , and leapt , via Mark 's knee , on to the table . |
| 17 | ‘ We all know there 's no more sorry sight in the world than a lady who 's had a drop too much , but a spoonful or so can be highly medicinal . |
| 18 | My reply to that is that the quiet passage of a canoe going with the current is less likely to disturb the otter than a walker tramping along the bank of the river . |
| 19 | So , a text containing a first person narrative by a narrator involved in the story claiming things about the world by indirect inferences would probably be found more to the left of the network than a text told in the third person by an omniscient narrator directly asserting claims about the world . |
| 20 | City analysts have put a price tag of as much as £60m on Hargreaves and some potential bidders , including the Irish group CRH , have intimated that the business would be worth more to an existing player in the market than a newcomer . |
| 21 | I 'd rather have a rat in the house than a dog |
| 22 | Her first appearance on the operatic stage was more of a stumble than a début . |
| 23 | Mr Kaifu has turned out to be more of a winner than a cipher . |
| 24 | the girls ' bedrooms which was more like a boxroom than a bedroom before |
| 25 | The fact that we are commanded to love even our enemies tells us that love is more of a decision than a feeling . |
| 26 | Neighbours , mm sounds more like a sheep than a horse , neighbours |
| 27 | ‘ It is better , ’ he concluded , ‘ to be a sheep than a wolf , better to be ruined than to do the ruining . ’ |
| 28 | Partly because I want to experience life in as many phases as I 'm capable of — i.e. I 'm more a writer than a moralist , I suppose . |
| 29 | Despite a couple of fine LPs , among them ‘ The Most Of ’ , Edwards clicked more as a writer than a singer , and in 1966 he gave two songs to the Spencer Davis Group , ‘ Keep On Running ’ and ‘ Somebody Help Me ’ , both of which hit Number One . |
| 30 | BUT the Fab Four 's first record was more of a MISS than a hit . |