Example sentences of "a [noun] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her first appearance on the operatic stage was more of a stumble than a début . |
| 2 | Mr Kaifu has turned out to be more of a winner than a cipher . |
| 3 | the girls ' bedrooms which was more like a boxroom than a bedroom before |
| 4 | The fact that we are commanded to love even our enemies tells us that love is more of a decision than a feeling . |
| 5 | Neighbours , mm sounds more like a sheep than a horse , neighbours |
| 6 | ‘ It is better , ’ he concluded , ‘ to be a sheep than a wolf , better to be ruined than to do the ruining . ’ |
| 7 | Partly because I want to experience life in as many phases as I 'm capable of — i.e. I 'm more a writer than a moralist , I suppose . |
| 8 | Despite a couple of fine LPs , among them ‘ The Most Of ’ , Edwards clicked more as a writer than a singer , and in 1966 he gave two songs to the Spencer Davis Group , ‘ Keep On Running ’ and ‘ Somebody Help Me ’ , both of which hit Number One . |
| 9 | BUT the Fab Four 's first record was more of a MISS than a hit . |
| 10 | It was perhaps less a prayer than a wish , in its final form ; but by the time the Queen went to bed that evening , it looked almost as if she had been heard . |
| 11 | Although they embody a real-world claim about how agents are motivated , they function more like a paradigm than a generalization . |
| 12 | ‘ People say there are courses in the economics of wildlife management , but I think it 's better to be a scientist than a talker . ’ |
| 13 | Charles Russell also found much to admire in his Manchester Scuttlers , seeing in their violent gang fights a ‘ sense of comradeship ’ which he could not altogether disapprove of : ‘ The ‘ Scuttler ’ ’ was not wholly bad ; he would rather be a blackguard than a dullard . |
| 14 | It sounded , even to her , more like a plea than a protest . |
| 15 | Not surprisingly she is said to have complained that Louis was more like a monk than a king . |
| 16 | It 's more of a noise than a sound sometimes , but in a way it 's how a proper bass should sound . |
| 17 | Now wo n't you stop risking money on horses , which is more a worry than a pleasure ? |
| 18 | The effect is more a portato than a staccato . |
| 19 | Johnson 's , I was soon to learn , was typical of other South Seas stores — more like a warehouse than a shop , with new lines that had just arrived by boat piled up against the shelves of the barn-like building . |
| 20 | The courtyard spoke less of a monastery than a farm . |
| 21 | Since queen and chamberlain had to work closely together ex officio , Vivian 's promotion looks more like a counterweight than a complement to Adalard 's . |
| 22 | Below Inside , comfortable armchairs , reading tables and daily newspapers made it more like a club than a travel agent 's office . |
| 23 | The face was fine and a little gaunt , more that of a poet than a soldier . |
| 24 | Zach 's room seemed more like a study than a bedroom . |
| 25 | He was always impressed with Leonard 's room , which he found to resemble more a study than a youth 's bedroom — already the style was evident . |
| 26 | The Crumps ' boat was a splendid , new affair , more fitted for a picnic than a fishing expedition , unusually comfortable and a pleasure to handle . |
| 27 | Lord have mercy upon us , " said the Collector heavily , making it sound more like a command than a supplication . |
| 28 | He , as a rag doll , contorted , controlled by invisible strings , jerked one way and then the other and the sewer filled up high , not a half-foot from the top of the walls , so that his tumble , when he fell into the swamp , it was more a plop than a splash . |
| 29 | There is , first , the relationship between rich and poor nations , which may be conceived in terms of neo-imperialism and dependency ( but in that case imperialism has to be seen in a wider perspective than that which treats it exclusively as a stage in the development of capitalism , important though this latter process is ) , or in terms of the current preoccupation with a ‘ North-South dialogue ’ , which is today more a confrontation than a dialogue . |
| 30 | Boli — Boom Boom to Marseille fans — was recently banned for four games after a fearsome tackle on Monaco 's Jurgen Klinsmann and goes into the European Cup tie talking more like a boxer than a footballer . |