Example sentences of "than a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'd rather be a paid-up churchgoer with a sense of pride in myself and my family than a part-time schizophrenic who lives her life in a fog of garbled third-hand mysticism and a building that houses goats , chickens and , from the feel of it , fleas like small sharks . |
| 32 | Judge Angus Stroyan QC said : ‘ This was no doubt an extremely unpleasant few seconds for the girl but really no more than a drunken antic . |
| 33 | The public simply wo n't come to us rather than a Russian company . |
| 34 | They see it as a scientific rather than a moral problem . |
| 35 | It is essentially a technical rather than a moral problem . |
| 36 | Oh a great help to sandwiches and a sit down meal at dinner at table with the family , it was far better than a dry sandwich eaten in the barn . |
| 37 | Dear God , who would ever have thought , looking at the insignificant scrap , that she could affect the world more than a dry leaf ? |
| 38 | His position at Wollaton was that of surveyor of the work , rather than a practising mason . |
| 39 | The fact is , however , that Leonce and Lena is more than a fizzled-out digression into comedy by the creator of Woyzeck . |
| 40 | We ca n't send Karen to the boring Isle of Man with anything less than a nineteen-carat hangover , can we ? ’ |
| 41 | The HM 527 uses angled water rudders to bank the craft into a coordinated turn , rather than skidding sideways , and Britain is the only country in the world that still regards such a vessel as a hovercraft ( with its special regulations ) rather than a high-speed ferry . |
| 42 | They 're harder to see than a high-speed mouse . |
| 43 | What I am speculating — and it can be no more than a retrospective speculation based on reports from sportsmen themselves — is that black parents were too preoccupied with maintaining a material existence to attend to sport : they were too busy making ends meet . |
| 44 | If evil were only the absence of good , for instance , then the Ring could never be anything other than a psychic amplifier ; it would not ‘ betray ’ its possessors , and all they would need do is put it aside and think pure thoughts . |
| 45 | ‘ Anyone who is budgeting for anything other than a flat position is being optimistic . |
| 46 | London chain Zoo is amongst those now promoting a scalp pummelling from trained specialists — it sets you back £20 , but it 's better than a flat top |
| 47 | You can pick up an old farmhouse with barns and stables , so forth , so fifth , for less than a terraced house in Bolton at the moment . ’ |
| 48 | But most thanks are due to all those fellow hacks who provided ideas , anecdotes and scurrilous rumours for no greater reward than a kindly word and a half of best bitter . |
| 49 | Endearing as this is , it can be no more than a futile gesture , since any seasoned thriller addict will immediately finger the culprit the second she walks into frame . |
| 50 | The Tannoy announces the opening of the buffet , and up we get , not stopping for an instant to reflect that even standing in line for seven hours outside Moscow 's GUM department store in pursuit of half a mouldy cabbage would be a more profitable venture than a futile pilgrimage to a British Rail catering outlet . |
| 51 | Changes in money supply from this source are likely to be much greater under a fixed than a floating exchange rate . |
| 52 | All that emerges from it is the sheer nastiness of a group of homosexual writers for whom the working classes were not much more than a floating brothel . |
| 53 | Even the gourd comes off better than the poor whale , who is no more than a floating prison where Jonah spends three days purging his contempt of court . |
| 54 | It 's reassuring to get things into some kind of cosmic perspective , to realize that the total of man 's activity is no more than a faint line on the infinite creativity of God 's hand . ’ |
| 55 | Gordon was the first to provide irrefutable evidence of what had been until then no more than a faint suspicion : that puerperal fever was a contagious disease that could be carried from patient to patient by doctors and midwives . |
| 56 | His voice was no more than a faint whisper now but it was as if his words were spraying vitriol on her face , because she tossed her head from side to side as if throwing off the spray . |
| 57 | Now I look at the confident sexual swagger of young men with more than a faint envy . |
| 58 | They were nothing more than a lousy bunch of down and outs , students ( same thing in my book ) , and back-packing evangelists with acne . |
| 59 | I was more baffled than a pregnant postulant in a eunuch 's prefab . |
| 60 | It was little more than a glass-sided army hut , but there was plenty of mahogany , ebony and zebra skin , and a tall cone of polished copper in the centre of the floor became a fireplace at the touch of a switch . |