Example sentences of "[det] than [adv] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 The Scots finished their 50 overs on 145 for five , with Donald Orr not out 32 , off 54 balls , and Jim Govan unbeaten on 31 , off 43 balls , figures which compare more than favourably with Alastair Storie , whose 25 took him 82 balls .
2 She surveyed the scene , feeling more than ever like Dante in the Inferno .
3 He looked more than ever like Don Quixote confronting the most formidable of spectral windmills ; and his tenor voice blazed from a reed to a trumpet in his indignation .
4 The NY-5 loved being tuned to dropped D , settled more than happily into DADGAD , and did n't even have a problem coping with a low C on the bottom string in conjunction with a heavy plastic thumbpick .
5 The remote island of Pantelleria , off the coast of Sicily and more than halfway to Tunisia , produces a superb dessert wine .
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