Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have ever tried growing anything taller than a lettuce in a grow-bag , you will have encountered the problem of floppy stakes . |
| 2 | Free-spending Mexicans are now rarer than a tamale in Lapland . |
| 3 | An ‘ albatross ’ , three shots below par , was one of the rarest phenomena in golf , even rarer than a hole in one . |
| 4 | ‘ An albatross , as I was saying , is one of the rarest phenomena in golf , even rarer than a hole in one which of course we have also seen today . |
| 5 | A moorland parish will obviously be larger than a parish in a fertile area that was densely settled in early times ; a church that was an Anglo-Saxon missionary centre will usually have a larger parish than one that was founded later . |
| 6 | Well it 's better than a kick in the teeth is n't it ? |
| 7 | Better than a kick in the teeth in n it ? |
| 8 | You have to admit , she 's better than a kick in the wot-nots ! |
| 9 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 10 | What is better than a run in the car followed by a good meal in a country inn or a pleasant roadhouse ? |
| 11 | A word processor is much better than a typewriter in letting you enter and edit your text more easily ; print it out as required with much more flexibility ; save it on disc for future work ; and transfer it through an IT link ( see , for instance , below , under communications ) to a colleague elsewhere . |
| 12 | Even for a paedophile , life in Russia might be better than a cell in Long Lartin prison . |
| 13 | Well that , thought Dalgliesh wryly , was better than a note in the parish magazine , a telephone call to the daily papers or a sermon next Sunday on the phenomenon of stigmata and the inscrutable wisdom of providence . |
| 14 | Begging your pardon , Sir , but some of those alleged artists that get feted on BBC Two could paint no better than a monkey in the zoo . |
| 15 | Not much worse than a tumble in the hunting field . ’ |
| 16 | A study of people using a shelter in Boston found that although 30 of the 68 respondents were suffering from a psychosis , only five had been admitted to hospital for longer than a year in total . |