Example sentences of "was [adj -er] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it was easier than a bra and panties she had donned an ivory , gossamer-light teddy . |
| 2 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was taller than a man , and big enough to accommodate four or five people inside . |
| 6 | And later she had found that his body , scarred as it was , was better than the one which she had imagined for him , as a living and breathing man was better than a marble statue or painting , and her vision had lacked life . |
| 7 | It was better than a pantomime , but with one big difference . |
| 8 | Well that , thought Dalgliesh wryly , was better than a note in the parish magazine , a telephone call to the daily papers or a sermon next Sunday on the phenomenon of stigmata and the inscrutable wisdom of providence . |
| 9 | It was better than a cockfight , and even better than the Battle . |
| 10 | And he was cleverer than a bag of monkeys , as his mother used to say , and would outwit them all . |
| 11 | It was smaller than a man 's thumb nail and Nicholson held it between the thumb and finger of his right hand with surprising delicacy . |
| 12 | He was nestling in the crack at the back of the seat , he was smaller than a doll , he was no more than five inches long . |
| 13 | In all seven broad industry categories monitored by TI , the level of failures was higher than a year previously . |
| 14 | His voice was softer than a goose 's neck , almost inaudible , and he kept his eyes turned away . |
| 15 | The Madness place in history was safer than a bet on a six-legged greyhound , so why did the once-magnificent seven and now decidedly muddled seven decide to blow their credibility and slop into the comeback trail ? |
| 16 | But she was worse than a headmistress ; she was the Rector 's wife . |
| 17 | It was worse than a mountain — it was a maze ; and how intricate its twists I soon discovered . |
| 18 | It was blacker than a coal heaver 's codpiece in a Blitz blackout . |
| 19 | The man had white bone things above his eyes and under the mouth so that his face was longer than a face should be . |
| 20 | My stomach was tighter than a baby 's fist |