Example sentences of "than [art] [adj] [adj] man " in BNC.

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1 Yet they would be a much better way of spending money than the present married man 's tax allowance which reduces income tax for all married men , rich or poor , whether or not they have dependants in their households .
2 The one with his arm round her calling her darling was much older than she was and rather older than the thin other man .
3 He was much paler himself , and looked a good deal sicker than the red-cheeked young man .
4 But as his eyes travelled across to Elinor 's crowd , with their frizzy haloes of hair , their flowered dresses and carefully arranged profiles , he realized that there was nothing he could think of to say that would persuade them he was anything other than a boring little man .
5 He was no more to her , he thought , than a tiresome old man , an old fool .
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