Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | No more of a realist than Anna ? |
| 2 | Leon Kennedy held up his hand , more of a proclamation than a greeting . |
| 3 | Zach was the only one who showed any real talent and he was more of a performer than an actor . |
| 4 | English Estates are moving ahead with the development of Chatham Maritime and although Mr. Ault assured me that the plaintiff did not wish to drive the dock company away , its operation is clearly less of a godsend than in 1983 and the desire is to curtail it . |
| 5 | Innominate Crack and Kern Knotts Crack are both 4c , though the first is the harder overall and more suited to the modern climber , being less of a squirm than the other . |
| 6 | While Hogarth is much less of a presence than his aqueous predecessor , his arrival has caused Marillion to bind closer together as a unit . |
| 7 | The issue is further complicated by work such as Newby 's study of farmworkers in East Anglia ( Newby 1977 ) , which employs all the methods used by Gans and by Stacey , and yet is more of a survey than a community study . |
| 8 | It would be mental laziness to assume that each national minority was more of a unity than the ex-empire as a whole . |
| 9 | Middle-class professional man ; solicitor perhaps ; denizen of pine-and-heather country ; pepper-and-salt tweeds ; a moustache hinting — perhaps fraudulently — at a military past ; a sensible wife ; perhaps a little boating at weekends ; more of a gin than a whisky man ; and so on ? |
| 10 | In Britain we 've always made more fuss of a ballad than a blueprint … |
| 11 | ‘ I travel in comfort , ’ he adds to explain why he finds it less of a hassle than many businessmen . |
| 12 | Perhaps the title led one to hope for more of a synthesis than is possible in the space . |
| 13 | If in some of these instances the writer appears to be trying to get more out of a rendering than a rendering will reasonably yield , the reason may be that in Horace 's line there is a fortuitous convergence , a hovering ambivalence , of two possible constructions : , " the celestial losses of the moon " , i.e. the moon 's waning , and , " swift — i.e. quickly returning — moons " . |
| 14 | Those who know him best think , he 's more of a fighter than that . |
| 15 | And he was incredibly supportive during the year I was struggling to get this record released — more of a help than most of my friends . ’ |
| 16 | The best finance people are more of a help than a hindrance . |
| 17 | Between the main road and the sea are the small , cliff side resorts , first of Bid art , which has a delightful town square , very Basque , with church , pelota wall and hotels gathered affably together , and excellent beaches to walk down to ; and then of Guéthary , which is smaller , lower down and less of a village than Bidart , but has the better coastline . |
| 18 | This time I 'm seeing a woman , who is more of a therapist than an analyst ; I prefer this because the sessions are more conversational and practical and there is even a certain amount of role playing . |
| 19 | Some of the early church fathers used to argue that marriage was more of a sacrifice than celibacy . |
| 20 | I thought the dead whiteness of the dress made me more of a corpse than a bride but had n't enough energy to infuriate my mother by telling her so . |
| 21 | More of a wallet than a purse , it still lay where the man had dropped it . |
| 22 | The combination of acute pain with sudden hostility produces a harsher version of the usual cry of pain — more of a screech than a scream . |
| 23 | Before we consider why processing load might be greater at the end of a clause than at the beginning , we will discuss some experiments which have been carried out on reading , from which a similar pattern has emerged . |
| 24 | Griffin , however , seems to have been more of a rogue than his dad ever was . |
| 25 | It sometimes makes hands sore , but is more of a nuisance than anything and , of course , the afflicted hands and feet look awful . |
| 26 | My other problem is more of a nuisance than anything serious . |
| 27 | No no er erm well er there is Prunus that 's a plum I mean a cherry that grows up and various ones like that the only trouble is with these type of things they can be more of a nuisance than the trees that you do have now because those trees growing up those spindly ones as you put it erm some gardeners call them or whatever name they use I but the trouble is bits die in the centre of those and they tend to drop down and they can be in time more far more of a nuisance than the trees they 've got now which seems to me quite suitable . |
| 28 | No no er erm well er there is Prunus that 's a plum I mean a cherry that grows up and various ones like that the only trouble is with these type of things they can be more of a nuisance than the trees that you do have now because those trees growing up those spindly ones as you put it erm some gardeners call them or whatever name they use I but the trouble is bits die in the centre of those and they tend to drop down and they can be in time more far more of a nuisance than the trees they 've got now which seems to me quite suitable . |
| 29 | The fact that we are commanded to love even our enemies tells us that love is more of a decision than a feeling . |
| 30 | This is soccer , BSkyB-style , more of a circus than a ‘ Whole new ball game ’ . |