Example sentences of "man than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Browning , Ferdinando swore , was more like a man than a woman and an Italian man at that . |
| 2 | It logically follows from this that a fit person should need less sleep than an unfit one , or a man than a woman , or a grown-up than a child . |
| 3 | Being of slight build , Yim Wing Chun thought that the plum flower fist was too complex , and placed too much reliance on power techniques and strong horse stances more befitting a man than a woman . |
| 4 | I 'd rather dodge a man than a stoat or a fox . " |
| 5 | Some people said she was a scalp-hunter , but most agreed that she was genuinely devoted to Modi , more interested in the man than the artist . |
| 6 | A lesser man than the Archdeacon would have made a mental note to avoid this rash abandonment of the riches offered by the Prayer Book collect in favour of a misshapen modernity . |
| 7 | She was a better man than the rest of them put together ! |
| 8 | That is why it is so terrible that what we offer , by and large , is a limited liability Christianity which is little more than a modern social convenience and more convenient to the white man than the black . |
| 9 | STANLEY Woods is regarded as the greatest all-round motorcycle sportsman ever and the repeat of Stanley Woods — the Movie ( BBC1 10.10pm ) , a film more about the man than the sport is seasonally topical . |
| 10 | And he is a better man than the King . |
| 11 | He has an appetite for land and castles I would not willingly see in the King himself , but he 's a more dangerous man than the King . ’ |
| 12 | A less religious or a more sane man than the fanatic would have shut up . |
| 13 | His replacement was no less a man than the Mayor of Henley , Councillor F. ( Fred ) Butler — a situation recognised as probably unique in past and future time and enough of an oddity for his photograph to feature in a San Francisco newspaper ! |
| 14 | Neatly arranged opposite is an array of samplers , sequencers , drum machines and keyboards — just to prove there 's more to the man than the jingle-jangle of six strings over a pickup . |
| 15 | In today 's ‘ Get Ahead ’ publishing world , it is considered vastly more glamorous to be a marketing man than an author . |