Example sentences of "be [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The objects and phenomena that a physics book describes are simpler than a single cell in the body of its author . |
| 2 | Natural highways they may be , but while some ridges are broader than a motorway , others resemble a tricky combination of obstacle course and tightrope walk . |
| 3 | I dare say I 've been luckier than a good many . |
| 4 | Even if you 're better than a master you still have to wait . |
| 5 | Since you 're more than a little accident prone at this time , exercise caution and be careful not to lead your owner into trouble . |
| 6 | maybe no only they 're more than a year . |
| 7 | we 're , we 're more than a quarter . |
| 8 | They rap , they rock ( rack ? rop ? ) , they 're tighter than a miner 's shopping budget , they scare the shit out of the entire convention with a brutality that could put Rollins to shame and they are so flabbergastingly right for 1992 they ca n't possibly fail to sell , ooooh , millions . |
| 9 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |
| 10 | Fantastic , popmungously great 45s , however , are rarer than a disco-dancing dodo . |
| 11 | The observation of the Great Wall has come from an ambitious project to map the positions of all visible galaxies which are brighter than a specified minimum . |
| 12 | Most missiles with pretensions to cleverness are brighter than a laser-guided bomb , but not as clever as a Tomahawk . |
| 13 | Erm but they are colder than a caravan ! |
| 14 | Elections are less than a month away , and Mr Anguita is probably Spain 's second most popular politician after the Socialist Prime Minister , Felipe Gonzalez . |
| 15 | This theory sees the unemployed person as continuing the job search ( that is , remaining unemployed ) so long as wage offers are less than a certain ‘ reservation wage ’ . |
| 16 | But if you are less than a writer of near genius , can you by simply describing what your policemen do , hold your readers spellbound ? |
| 17 | ‘ No , Miss Eyre , you are less than a servant , because you do not work , ’ replied Miss Abbott . |
| 18 | If anyone is less than a metre behind you , you lose a point ; if you are less than a metre behind anyone else , you gain a point . " |
| 19 | For Sonny , those dramatic events are less than a blur . |
| 20 | County council elections are less than a week away , and one of the key issues is bound to be the state of our schools . |
| 21 | ‘ We are less than a third of the way through the season . |
| 22 | ( b ) If the elements addressed by A and B are smaller than a word , we are ill the realm of the character string operations of 2.5 . |
| 23 | Full colour TV cameras are now available that are smaller than a packet of Polos whilst the definition of monitors is better than ever . |
| 24 | I am more than a little confident that its fruition will be more than evident before the last kick of the season . |
| 25 | No doubt you 're very switched on , when it comes to good productivity but in case , like me , you are more than a touch muddy , here are some helpful hints . |
| 26 | The amp manufacturers ' answer to the dilemma is to provide sufficient flexibility to suit all tastes , and there are more than a few ways of going about that , too ! |
| 27 | There are more than a few Hungarians who would happily revert to the good old days of Kadarism , when the Hungarian president , Janos Kadar ( 1956–1986 ) , offered the ‘ cheeriest barracks ’ in eastern Europe a relatively high standard of living in return for political passivity . |
| 28 | These perceptions are more than a sad reflection of how little sex roles have changed : women seem to have much invested in keeping things the way they are , in seeing their partners as stronger and saner . |
| 29 | But there are more than a few teething problems . |
| 30 | The public , as clients , equally base their attitudes to the quality of the services they receive on subjective assessments that are more than a little conditioned by their individual social attitudes . |