Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's easier , though , to remember a meaningful sentence or phrase of six words than to remember six disconnected words . |
| 2 | Yet , encouraged by Tory Central Office , sections of the Press are keener to criticise Labour for the quality of its opposition than to slam the Government for policy failures . |
| 3 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 4 | Because information technology is new and exciting , its proponents naturally exaggerate the cultural role it will take But do they really believe that we shall have nothing better to do in the future than to sit in front of a screen for hours , plugging into Which ? , mail-order catalogues , and the index to Chemical Abstracts ? |
| 5 | Remember that it is far better to get down and then to run into obstruction than to stall on to it at flying speed . |
| 6 | Yet it is easier to sense the swing of history against traditional religion than to measure it . |
| 7 | The public understands more easily what it means for an old lady to have five pounds snatched from her purse than to grasp the financial significance of 25 million customers paying one penny more for orange juice diluted beyond the level permitted by law . |
| 8 | To ensure that it earns maximum profit , the firm must only employ workers who add more to revenue than to cost . |
| 9 | * I always think that it is better to make a fresh pot of tea than to top up the old pot . |
| 10 | It was the Bioscope 's view that for the person ‘ in search of different phases of human nature there is no better place to find objects of study than to visit a bioscope show ’ . |
| 11 | In practice the widowed of any age were much more likely to stay in their own homes than to move to find support . |
| 12 | These measures were more for the maintenance of the industry than to save whales . |
| 13 | There can be nothing worse for those employed in any industry than to have their incomes drastically reduced for two years on the trot and then be left twirling their thumbs wondering whether at the end of the next year they will still be in business — whether they can continue to be farmers and produce the food that Britain can use . |
| 14 | Mr d'Ancona admits : ‘ It was probably harder to get British industry to respond to the legitimate requirements of the oil industry than to get the oil industry to make allowance for the legitimate interests of the supply industry . ’ |
| 15 | It is better for people to be able to grow and develop in relationships than to suffer the burdens of isolation and constant temptation and the threat of seeking relief through clandestine and casual relationships . ' |
| 16 | Actually it 's all very much easier to explain in pictures than to tell you how it works , so let's go step by step , shall we ? |
| 17 | Nothing can be more exasperating to the borrower of library books than to find a vital page or two missing from the denouement of his thriller . |
| 18 | Nothing can be finer for honest books than to stand unashamed and free to the air . |
| 19 | I told her that we should both be delighted , that there was no greater compliment than to find another lady wearing one 's best outfit . |
| 20 | At first the wood smoke brought distressing symptoms of choking and crying , and I was continually opening windows and doors — with little apparent effect except to sweep in cold draughts which swirled the smoke around . |
| 21 | However , region has a history as a concept within geography and it is better to use a new term than to try and alter the definition of a long-established one . |
| 22 | If the situation continues I will have no other recourse than to set the facts before Rose Lipman . |
| 23 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 24 | Why the hell should I look at the roof except to see if there was a satellite TV dish . |
| 25 | Speaking of God the prophet Habakkuk wrote ‘ Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on iniquity . ’ |
| 26 | The prophet Habbakuk expressed this truth very well when under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit he wrote concerning God ‘ Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on iniquity . ’ |
| 27 | This analysis was not universally accepted , and it is clear that many preferred to tackle the problem of dishonesty through preventative action than to vacate the ‘ moral high ground ’ by abandoning or altering too radically the present basis of claim settlement . |
| 28 | Papert evidently dislikes many of the first uses of computers in education , but is more interested in their power to transform schools than to abolish them . |
| 29 | To hold that a procedure is unfair involves a less apparent interference with the administration than to hold that the actual decision was unreasonable . |
| 30 | This both pleased and hampered the trade : pleased , because oak was more expensive than the traditional elm ; hampered , as it was easier , less time-consuming and required far less skill to cover an elm coffin with baize or velvet than to spend time on french polishing . |