Example sentences of "than the [adj] man " in BNC.
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1 | However , as you are leading a more active life than the average man , you need to take this into account when calculating your energy requirement . |
2 | Psychics can often see the auras of women more clearly , possibly because women tend to express their emotions more easily than the average man . |
3 | Then , too , the subtle contact of mind to mind , of life to life , is probably more a part of the tigress than the average man . |
4 | They have no more idea of the public 's response to something musical than the average man in the street . |
5 | Women … had to be a little better than the average man in order to stay equal . |
6 | That seemed to me to be quite all right , since I was quite sure that I was better than the average man . |
7 | The taller of the pair was chewing on a chicken leg and leaning on a sword that was only marginally shorter than the average man . |
8 | There 's nothing worse than the straight man who shouts it from the rooftop . ’ |
9 | His reaction to my replies was more vigorous than the other man 's and once he even pretended to get angry . |
10 | Aware now that he was more naked than the other man he turned to the bed , and dragged a sheet off it to cover himself with . |
11 | The man who climbed out of the freight car was at least six feet five inches high , a couple of inches taller than the other man , with a horrendously scarred face and a dyed blond pigtail dangling grotesquely from the back of an otherwise shaven head . |
12 | finally it 's back to the Manor Ground to pick the winners in our competition to pick the new Oxford manager … who better to make the draw than the new man himself |
13 | And the feeling this generated in both Lizzie and Peggy was much the same : resentment and a dull anger directed , if anything , more against the old woman than the young man . |
14 | If the tenant could not exploit the land directly himself , with his own resources and those of his family , he would have to hire labour , but it seems likely that the small farmer was able to make a better profit than the great man , because his lands were not encumbered by a costly and unproductive bureaucracy . |
15 | The thrill of sex with someone taller or blonder than the wonderful man I 've got ? |
16 | This jealousy may be felt to be like Othello 's in having more to do with difference of race , and with the jealousies of race , than the jealous man , or than the work he belongs to , seems disposed to state . |
17 | Benjamin just stared fascinated and I studied him rather than the condemned man for , as I have remarked before , Benjamin had a horror of public executions . |
18 | Any more than the white man ’ ( Black Skin , 93 , 231 ) . |
19 | I wonder if they would sooner live in a tribal hut than the white man 's three-bedroomed house with fully-fitted kitchen ? ’ |
20 | Luch bedded on a bag of bracken in a corner , but she and Ranald woke earlier than the old man . |
21 | Thus she was quite close to the bath chair before she realized that its waxen-faced occupant was none other than the old man who , in his eerie fashion , had been so kind in the train . |
22 | It was taller by half than the old man himself |
23 | Or need I look no further than the old man 's unspoken mistrust of my intentions ? |
24 | Fancy my not guessing at once that the Umpire She was on about was none other than the top man himself . |