Example sentences of "'s [adj] than the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A taste of stalactite climbing at a more human level is provided by the sustained E1 5b of Arrampicatopitheque ( thankfully the climbing 's easier than the name ) to the left of Casamanche — itself one of the best 7bs . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's tougher than the rest of us put together . |
| 3 | One foot 's bigger than the other . |
| 4 | We 've made too many allowances for another top player who thinks he 's bigger than the game . |
| 5 | Can you tell whether you think that finger 's colder than the rest ? |
| 6 | It 's cheaper than the restaurant . |
| 7 | at the minute , because they 've got there the Hussy End which is like the number one , that 's better than the Stringfellow 's apparently , Hussy End are in Manchester thirty quid to get in |
| 8 | Surely it 's better than the way 'e 's bin since 'e got back from France ? |
| 9 | The book 's better than the film cos it 's got more detail in it . |
| 10 | ‘ Fams ’ describes re-starting the Wailers as ‘ rough ’ and it might not be as glorious a gig as playing Zimbabwe 's independence celebrations with Bob , but it 's better than the fate of most reggae elders ; redundancy thanks to computerised ragga . |
| 11 | Good grief , that 's better than the Ryder Cup Captain , Bernard Gallacher , did last year . |
| 12 | in fact it 's better than the television we 've got |
| 13 | At least it 's better than the paraffin we used to have when I was a kid . ’ |
| 14 | There 's a kind of intimacy that 's closer than the bone |
| 15 | if you , because it 's more than the Headway can do |
| 16 | It 's more than the lands . |
| 17 | Now evidence shows that it 's more than the fact that he has something on his mind to distract him from sex — it 's an actual physical phenomenon . |
| 18 | Martin , he 's faster than the bloke . |
| 19 | That 's less than the company subsidy for the North Harbour cafeteria , running around £900 per employee in 1990 . |
| 20 | The pleasant surprise I mentioned earlier was that the tank carried a recommended price tag of only £26 — and that 's less than the price of buying the glass cut to size from the glass merchant . |
| 21 | Wo wo , it 's less than the price of a cup of tea . |
| 22 | er , if you just to avoid doubt , it looks as though , as we presume we go back to one , three , four that 's less than the income was the revenue from things like the guest room and er the lounge and so on , you see ? |
| 23 | It 's less than the benefit you 'd receive if you were an invalid or an old-age pensioner and you 'd get more if you were a widow or a student . |
| 24 | When the number that we 're sharing out when that 's less than the number of people . |
| 25 | He 's worse than the Arthur Seaton kind . |
| 26 | Even if you got it further it 's wider than the stairway which is only two foot six and the r wardrobe 's three foot . |
| 27 | HE 'S cheekier than the Chippendales , more passionate than Prince . |