Example sentences of "[det] of a [noun sg] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was very unbending , this young boss of hers — not even a smile , and his speech was more like that of a headmaster than a colleague . |
| 2 | The face was fine and a little gaunt , more that of a poet than a soldier . |
| 3 | Perhaps the title led one to hope for more of a synthesis than is possible in the space . |
| 4 | This is soccer , BSkyB-style , more of a circus than a ‘ Whole new ball game ’ . |
| 5 | If ( and hopefully when ) you do finally quit , it may create more of a problem than if you gird your mental loins at the outset and make up your mind to do it first and foremost . |
| 6 | On the other hand , girls ' lack of femininity or their ‘ masculinity ’ may be seen as more of a problem than that of underachievement . |
| 7 | It was noted that the Hibbs contribution suggested that right-wing governments tended to see inflation as more of a problem than unemployment . |
| 8 | We found indications that homophonic phrases were more of a problem than had previously been thought . |
| 9 | Linda says : ‘ What David has gone through makes him more of a person than a lot of other people . |
| 10 | Kano regarded his judo as more of a sport than a fighting system . |
| 11 | AIESEC Debate : ‘ This house believes that a University degree is more of a hindrance than a help to a career in British industry . ’ |
| 12 | However , he could also be a tiresome prankster and thus often more of a hindrance than a help about the house — Briggs tells of practical jokes such as ‘ blowing ashes over shelled oats spread out to dry ’ ( from The Fairies in Tradition and Literature ) . |
| 13 | Later that month the Union 's largest society , AIESEC , the international organisation for students of all subjects who are interested in business and management , organised a debate on the motion that ‘ This House believes that a university degree is more of a hindrance than a help to a career in British industry ’ . |
| 14 | But I thought that 'd be more of a hindrance than a help |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | The trouble is that in England a tomato good enough to be eaten raw and unadorned is becoming a good deal more of a rarity than a ripe avocado , and nearly as elusive as a perfect fresh peach or purple fig . |
| 17 | It 's more of a noise than a sound sometimes , but in a way it 's how a proper bass should sound . |
| 18 | Speculation that its soldiers would attack the town of Pailin on the Thai border has died down , as it became clear that to hold Pailin would be more of a liability than an asset . |
| 19 | It is more of a liability than an amenity . |
| 20 | Soviet influence , moreover , was overwhelmingly concentrated among the poorest and least important countries in terms of population and GNP , whose support was often more of a liability than an asset ; the world 's major military and industrial powers , by contrast , were all allied or aligned with the United States . |
| 21 | Although he was one of her most enthusiastic supporters , Mrs Thatcher often found he was more of a liability than an asset . |
| 22 | This time I 'm seeing a woman , who is more of a therapist than an analyst ; I prefer this because the sessions are more conversational and practical and there is even a certain amount of role playing . |
| 23 | Zach was the only one who showed any real talent and he was more of a performer than an actor . |
| 24 | Judged on the attendance , the almost complete lack of sectarianism , the productive political discussion in the workshops , and the constructive criticism , the event was more of a success than we had ever dared hope for . |
| 25 | Shredding and slicing life , in Woolf 's view , menacing it with monotony and madness , in Lawrence 's , clocks provide for modernist fiction more of a threat than a sense of order and regularity . |
| 26 | Political neutrality , without which a militarily improved army was liable to prove more of a threat than a support to Spanish democracy , was quite another matter . |
| 27 | Despite Dustin 's worries over the script-'I learned not to try to build more of a character than the text can support' — his performance is one of threads and patches , full of actorish tics and attempts at pathos . |
| 28 | More of a wallet than a purse , it still lay where the man had dropped it . |
| 29 | Her first appearance on the operatic stage was more of a stumble than a début . |
| 30 | Some of the early church fathers used to argue that marriage was more of a sacrifice than celibacy . |