Example sentences of "be [adj] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Natural highways they may be , but while some ridges are broader than a motorway , others resemble a tricky combination of obstacle course and tightrope walk . |
| 2 | Even if you 're better than a master you still have to wait . |
| 3 | maybe no only they 're more than a year . |
| 4 | we 're , we 're more than a quarter . |
| 5 | They rap , they rock ( rack ? rop ? ) , they 're tighter than a miner 's shopping budget , they scare the shit out of the entire convention with a brutality that could put Rollins to shame and they are so flabbergastingly right for 1992 they ca n't possibly fail to sell , ooooh , millions . |
| 6 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |
| 7 | Erm but they are colder than a caravan ! |
| 8 | But if you are less than a writer of near genius , can you by simply describing what your policemen do , hold your readers spellbound ? |
| 9 | If anyone is less than a metre behind you , you lose a point ; if you are less than a metre behind anyone else , you gain a point . " |
| 10 | ‘ No , Miss Eyre , you are less than a servant , because you do not work , ’ replied Miss Abbott . |
| 11 | For Sonny , those dramatic events are less than a blur . |
| 12 | Elections are less than a month away , and Mr Anguita is probably Spain 's second most popular politician after the Socialist Prime Minister , Felipe Gonzalez . |
| 13 | County council elections are less than a week away , and one of the key issues is bound to be the state of our schools . |
| 14 | ( b ) If the elements addressed by A and B are smaller than a word , we are ill the realm of the character string operations of 2.5 . |
| 15 | Full colour TV cameras are now available that are smaller than a packet of Polos whilst the definition of monitors is better than ever . |
| 16 | ‘ What with missing sleep and everything else , my nerves are more than a bit wrung-out , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 17 | You are more than a grandmother . |
| 18 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 19 | They are more than a spark but less than a small fire and exporters have high hopes . |
| 20 | If there are more than a handful of lawyers doing personal injury work get a member of the support staff to compile and distribute a monthly newsletter . |
| 21 | No doubt you 're very switched on , when it comes to good productivity but in case , like me , you are more than a touch muddy , here are some helpful hints . |
| 22 | ‘ Others have understandably wanted to recoup their investment and the rents they are asking are more than a student can afford on a £750 a term grant . ’ |
| 23 | A court that tries to decide as Parliament would have wished is more likely to be right than a court that follows the words believing it was not what Parliament intended . |
| 24 | It would be easier than a password if you need to check out changing the |
| 25 | Most characters are simply sketched types rather than carefully constructed characters : the beautiful young wife , either licentious or honest but nearly always cunning ; the prostitute ; the husband , more often foolish than wise ; the lover , more likely to be clever than a husband is . |
| 26 | Although my hand may be bigger than a lot of people 's , it 's still a hand — it 's not a block of wood . |
| 27 | What could be nicer than a summer picnic ( preferably involving a bicycle ride ) of fresh baguette , ripe Brie or Camembert and a bottle of vin de table ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | how long the employment was going to last in the absence of sickness ( a short-term contract is more likely to be frustrated than a job expected to last for the foreseeable future ) ; |
| 30 | Because what could be braver than a lion ? ’ |