Example sentences of "[is] [art] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , in support of the maternal depletion syndrome , perhaps contrary to popular belief , it appears from these data that a baby has better chances of being born alive to a woman in the 40–44 years age group if it is the first than the sixth or a higher order . |
| 2 | Judit 's cassette-filled bedroom is no bigger than a standard bathroom . |
| 3 | And even if I did have and had a mustard seed here , you still would n't be able to see it for a mustard seed is no bigger than a pin head . |
| 4 | The digital AC motor speed controller is no bigger than a filofax . |
| 5 | A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself . |
| 6 | " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said . |
| 7 | This line of defence is no better than the first . |
| 8 | Perhaps what we believe today is no better than the Sunday-school notions we were forced to discard yesterday and is different to us only because we are believing it today ? |
| 9 | For all you can tell , the new situation is no better than the old . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the most highly automated programme of language teaching is no better than the material it contains ; it is what we put into it that determines the quality of the automation . |
| 11 | This has the worst reputation of any ‘ creepy-crawly ’ in the public imagination , and yet its bite , which is extremely rare , is no worse than a bee sting . |
| 12 | The person with , say , the pinched and nasal accents of the English Midlands is no worse than the one whose language has the rounded and lordly ring of London 's Knightsbridge , merely different . |
| 13 | The next job was to plug in the PostScript card , which is no larger than the average credit card , and only three times as thick . |
| 14 | Since output can not be increased above Q , a price P 2 higher than c is required to ensure that the quantity demanded is no larger than the maximum available quantity that can be supplied . |
| 15 | It is Easter weekend in Paris and , while his wife is away , middle-aged Jacques ( Stephen Moore ) brings home Julie , a sexy little bimbo played by Leslie Ash in a mini-skirt that is no broader than a cummerbund . |
| 16 | THE gleam in President Gorbachev 's eye is no less than a new Marshall Plan to reorganise the Soviet Union 's economy , financed by the world 's seven leading industrial countries , the G7 . |
| 17 | ‘ To experience two within the same day is no less than a catastrophe . |
| 18 | Christian marriage is no less than the unity of two people , living out the reality of Christ 's coming , death and resurrection in their lives together . |
| 19 | This battle , which is still raging , is no less than the fight between good and evil : the war between God and the Devil . |
| 20 | This battle , I have argued , is no less than the fight between God and the Devil . |
| 21 | The Spirit is no less than the personal , moral , active power of the Lord God , and for the further revelation of his nature we must await Act Two , the coming of Jesus , to which we shall turn in the next chapter . |
| 22 | The ensuing dilemma that arts educators find themselves in is no less than the struggle to transform reality into something which more fully reflects the astounding potential that both boys and girls have to construct their own lives ; to make their own mark . |
| 23 | The AP1-88 is only as noisy as a major road at a distance of 100 m to 200 m , and at I km is no noisier than a quiet residential area . |
| 24 | Philistinism is rife , and it is high time for some loud restatement of the old conservationist maxim that ownership is no more than a temporary rental on the nation 's heritage . |
| 25 | A cordon is no more than a single stem which fruits all the way along . |
| 26 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 27 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 28 | ‘ Labour 's supposed conversion to multilateralism is no more than a confidence trick to try to make Labour electable . |
| 29 | Until then the Polo is no more than a worthy evolution of a familiar species and merely addresses the most urgent problems that nearly 10 years of standing still have created . |
| 30 | In 1987 , soul is no more than a packed vehicle beating a hasty retreat from what are perceived as the excesses of white modernism . |