Example sentences of "and [adj] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A painting of a male head , which is almost certainly a study for the figure of the sailor that Picasso originally intended to place in the centre of the composition , while it is bolder and sketchier than a work like the Self-Portrait , shows all the earlier Iberian devices .
2 White Men Ca n't Jump is funny , touching and slushier than a wellington boot full of dog 's wee .
3 After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes .
4 About 70 per cent of new entrants were over twenty-one , half of whom lacked two A levels , and fewer than a quarter were school-leavers with these qualifications or their equivalent .
5 It passed in a flash of man-made , unnatural colour , glittering here and there and brighter than a winter holly tree .
6 That was faster and nimbler than a cat ,
7 Since electrical pulses zinging down a wire are more regular and predictable than a steel cable moving inside a plastic cover , the result should be more precise control of engine revs and better fuel consumption .
8 If you are female and more than a stone overweight , but have already been dieting and have lost a stone or more on any other slimming method .
9 Rose of Lima 's mystical marriage to Jesus , his visits to her , her direct sense of his immediate and corporeal presence , was understood by her and her contemporaries as a direct reward , and more than a compensation , for the violence of her own purification .
10 Brooks Brothers ' past success was based on the personal touch and more than a soupcon of snobbery .
11 This was in turn succeeded by a Vietnamese-backed administration in 1979 , headed by the Revolutionary Party of Kampuchea , which failed to secure widespread international recognition and more than a decade later had not yet established effective control of the entire national territory .
12 WITH CHARACTERISTIC PRECISION AND MORE THAN A SOUPÇON OF INSPIRATION , THE SWISS CREATED THE DUROMATIC
13 Kate , hurt and more than a bit shattered under his look of acute dislike , felt she had to try to justify her actions .
14 I 've been a fool and more than a fool .
15 Regarding the Red Lion lunch , the town searched its soul , and more than a century later was still justifying the inedible meal .
16 The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument .
17 During this time we organized two national conferences for students with disabilities and more than a handful of steadily more accessible conferences for lesbians and gays .
18 Certainly he came under such guidance from within his family which clashed with his own predilections , for his varsity life seems to have been plagued by vocational uncertainty and more than a touch of its weakening indifference .
19 Leith supposed she must still be feeling shaken at being grabbed at by Alec Ardis , and more than a touch bruised by her dismissal , and the unfairness of it .
20 The smile was still there , but behind it now was a hint of trouble , and more than a hint of tiredness .
21 A fruit and vegetable mixture with a delicately balanced flavour and more than a hint of summer .
22 They believed that in his teaching and life , God had ‘ visited his people ’ and sent a prophet and more than a prophet , an example and teacher of the way of truth and righteousness surpassing John the Baptist ; the ‘ Messiah ’ or anointed leader of ancient expectation .
23 More than a year since they had last spoken , and more than a week since he had last examined his memory of those meetings .
24 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 .
25 Issuing from the loch is the River Arkaig , crossing a narrow strip of land and less than a mile in length before entering Loch Lochy .
26 That same night , at that same moment , and less than a mile from the Zoo , one other living creature was thinking of Minch .
27 At present north Belfast and Newtownabbey contain less than five per cent of the office space in Greater Belfast : much less than is contained in the small area around the university and less than a quarter of that found in east Belfast .
28 ‘ Ten years old , and less than a month to live ! ’
29 The defeat deprived the garrisons in Aquitaine of the reinforcements they needed , and less than a month after the destruction of Pembroke 's fleet du Guesclin entered Poitiers .
30 The full draft standards across all the technical working groups within sport and recreation run to over 500 pages , and less than a month was given for response , including the Christmas and New Year period .
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