Example sentences of "than a [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , as far as James was concerned , this was no more than a PRECONDITION for the abolition of slavery . |
| 2 | Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out . |
| 3 | For some this means no more than a trip to the supermarket and a loading-up of the metal basket ; for others it means being lost on a plain in Greece , in the dark , in snow , in the rain , and finding what you seek only by some rare trick such as barking like a dog . |
| 4 | At £55 , it is a good deal more expensive than a ticket on the high-speed train which runs just below the bridge . |
| 5 | There was less than a yard between the beds . |
| 6 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 7 | In the middle of combat , one is little more than a wave in the sea … a stroke of the brush lost in the painting … |
| 8 | After a few minutes ’ pleasantries , they parted company , Isaacs to continue his beat , and Inspector Drewitt for another conference point with young PC Shorter , at Folly Crossroads , less than a mile to the north of the town . |
| 9 | The arch-conservative , Senator Jesse Helms ( North Carolina ) , complained that the administration should have mobilised the US troops , based less than a mile from the Panamanian Defence Force headquarters , to help the rebels . |
| 10 | There have been scores of potentially dangerous incidents , some of them in a generator little more than a mile from the border with West Germany . |
| 11 | The Staples Corner explosion — less than a mile from the Metropoltan police training college — went off just after 1am as Mr Kenneth Baker , Home Secretary , arrived at the scene of the City blast . |
| 12 | Their lodgings lay almost in the shadow of the Stefansdom , the great cathedral dominating the centre of the city , and less than a mile from the Theatre an der Wien . |
| 13 | Johanna 's home is less than a mile from the spot where her body was found . |
| 14 | An incident room staffed by 30 officers working full time on the case is being run at Martlesham police headquarters , which is less than a mile from the scene of crime . |
| 15 | Scotland Yard said no further action would be taken against Stagg , who lives at Roehampton less than a mile from the murder scene . |
| 16 | Less than a mile from the turning for the Lac de Bious-Artigues , but on the other side of the road , is a lazier way of gaining real altitude and tremendous views , by taking the cable-car ( it goes regularly only in summer and during the skiing season ) up to the Pic de la Sagette , at almost 7,000 feet . |
| 17 | That same night , at that same moment , and less than a mile from the Zoo , one other living creature was thinking of Minch . |
| 18 | And they used to let us come out of the pit at three quarter time , there were six of us , all of a size , strong as young bulls and er we used to have to i if the body was within less than a mile from the church , you see ? |
| 19 | Her address was less than a mile from the shop , but Folly had asked Lisa to keep it until last in the route she had mapped out . |
| 20 | For even then I was falling in love with you , though you were little more than a child at the time . ’ |
| 21 | For those bombastic outbursts , Gerard shrewdly blamed ‘ the effect of his infernal military education , commencing when he was a child ’ and here indeed , when one recalls the poses being struck throughout pre-war Europe , the Crown Prince appears as little more than a child of the age . |
| 22 | You are directly discriminated against if treated less favourably than a person of the opposite sex is or would be treated , or if you are treated less favourably on racial grounds . |
| 23 | a person of one sex is treated less favourably , on the ground of sex , than a person of the other sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances . |
| 24 | Things had been ticking along nicely between them , just as long as she 'd been prepared to forget that she wanted more out of the relationship than a roll in the hay and a bright ‘ cheerio ’ at the airport . |
| 25 | For her , their lovemaking might have been an almost mystical fusing of bodies and identities , yet for him it had been no more than a roll in the hay . |
| 26 | More than a tint of the tarbrush there , if you ask me . ’ |
| 27 | In terms of the simple free volume concept each chain end requires more free volume in which to move about than a segment in the chain interior . |
| 28 | He scanned it — it was little more than a text of the Act . |
| 29 | Tonight I feel I 'd enjoy a pint of ale more than a text from the New Testament . |
| 30 | The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 ! |