Example sentences of "was [adj] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Situations vacant in particular showed a very , a very big drop and erm , and in fact we , the yield was lower than the year before , but we 've er , continued with our pac press rationalization programme and er , I think as I mentioned at the interims , the Basildon Evening Echo is now printed on the F T's presses , which incidentally has got the contract to and is printing er , . |
| 2 | It offered no defence ; and defence was needed , for on the opposite side of the yard a wall ran right up to the house and although it was lower than the roof an agile man might easily scramble from it up on to the roof itself . |
| 3 | The Barman 's voice was lower than an ankle bracelet on a flat-footed pygmy . |
| 4 | And Germany 's self-absorption with unity meant that its response to the Gulf challenge was feebler than the Germanophiles would have wished . |
| 5 | Because it was easier than a bra and panties she had donned an ivory , gossamer-light teddy . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought it would take too long to do but it was easier than the problems of printing . ’ |
| 7 | The great advantage — let us talk about the advantages — to many single people was that the community charge was fairer than the rating system . |
| 8 | Hosiers were accused of making too little allowance for normal waste , so that they could fine knitters whose returned work was lighter than the yarn which had been given out . |
| 9 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |
| 10 | It would be nice to say that the tiny frogs thought long and hard about the new flower , about life in the old flower , about the need to explore , about the possibility that the world was bigger than a pool with petals around the edge . |
| 11 | The hall was bigger than the Cromarty Hall in the village ; it could accommodate more local people and more of the television cameras that by now were multiplying daily , along with their crews , reporters , producers , and the army of newspaper journalists and feature writers that by this time had gathered in Orkney . |
| 12 | As they began to move towards it they noticed that the door was bigger than the others and could quite easily accommodate two men abreast . |
| 13 | Its page size was bigger than The Times and its front-page message summoned up , with a tinge of pomposity , a degree of wishful thinking , the hope of the month , and indeed the year : ‘ We Shall Fight We Will Win Paris London Rome Berlin . ’ |
| 14 | The Kha-Khan 's chamber was bigger than the anteroom . |
| 15 | Erm , er er the man was bigger than the boy |
| 16 | A man was bigger than the boy , good . |
| 17 | Was bigger than the downstairs . |
| 18 | At last the bastion had met his match , a fly-boy from Fife , who was out to prove he was bigger than the club itself . |
| 19 | Yeah but it was bigger than the plate . |
| 20 | The pot was taller than a man , and a prisoner had to climb up on a table in order to extract a sample with a huge ladle . |
| 21 | It was taller than a man , and big enough to accommodate four or five people inside . |
| 22 | She was deeper than the house , level with worms , all the dead things that were put into the ground . |
| 23 | In terms of Figure 17–2 , it is highly questionable whether the cost saving rectangle B was larger than the dead-weight burden triangle A. |
| 24 | This painting was larger than the others and more like everybody else 's Egypt , the Egypt the traveller expected . |
| 25 | The diocese was larger than the diocese of Durham and more varied ; industry on Teesside , moors of the North Riding , wolds of the East Riding , the plain of York , cities like York and Hull . |
| 26 | The value of coconut products consumed within the island was larger than the value of exports , but substantial amounts of coconut oil and copra were sent overseas . |
| 27 | This was fewer than the number of people looking at a daily newspaper . |
| 28 | The fact that her stomach no longer turned over when he looked at her came as a surprise and disappointment — even unrequited love was better than no love at all . |
| 29 | He says he had a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the operation but it was better than no odds at all . |
| 30 | Brian was so thoroughly weak that marriage to Evelyn , dire as it was , was better than no framework to his life , since his working-class parents were children of a lesser god . |