Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramsay was perhaps less respectful towards this lofty assemblage than a young knight ought to have been , in his concern for the Berwick situation . |
| 2 | Clearly there is more to such cross-species communication than a merely self-centred ‘ survival of the fittest ’ . |
| 3 | He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm . |
| 4 | As a Scottish paper remarked at the time , it was not his first dismissal , ‘ Bremner has had more early baths than a miner on night-shift . ’ |
| 5 | Montgomery was n't sure , but in his own mind there were few more melancholy sights than a widower trying to manage on his own . |
| 6 | Having said that though , it 's the old case of ‘ the bigger the better ’ , and I doubt there are many more impressive sights than a pair of contented 30cm examples in a five foot tank . |
| 7 | The electoral agreement which Peace Alliance supporters proposed " would have less electoral appeal than a united and independent Labour Party " . |
| 8 | There are few more poignant sights than a group of people who are desperate to walk up a mountain , standing with their hands in pockets and feet in slippers , gazing out the window at weather that looks like television interference . |