Example sentences of "[to-vb] than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relaxation classes , acupuncture and hypnosis are other ways of emulating the nicotine high ; statistically , they are less likely to work than the real thing . |
| 2 | Of the drought he had experienced on his last visit , Gould wrote that , ’ It is easier for the imagination to conceive than the pen to depict the horrors of so dreadful a visitation . ’ |
| 3 | The collapse of the Warsaw Pact has produced a new challenge which could be less costly to meet than the old one , but only if the right choices are made now . |
| 4 | This precautionary demand for money will also be related to money incomes since : ( a ) the higher your regular income then normally the more expensive are the items you own , e.g. the Rolls-Royce is usually more expensive to repair than the Mini ; ( b ) if money incomes rise due to inflation then the same items cost more to replace or repair . |
| 5 | The United States found the implications of these new political realities harder to accept than the rest of the international community , which had almost unanimously welcomed the PLO 's clarified accommodationism . |
| 6 | Rainbow trout are more docile and easier to catch than the more popular brown trout and members of the Savernake Fly Fishing Club complained that the arrival of the rainbows ruined their season . |
| 7 | But worse was to come than the criticisms laid against him in 189I . |
| 8 | He kissed me again , a different , unanguished sort of kiss which was somehow much more difficult to bear than the other . |
| 9 | The answer was close now and the minutes remaining before it was revealed to her were harder to bear than the days and weeks that had gone before . |
| 10 | One could only enter this sacred temple to snobbishness if one had a voucher of admission and they were harder to obtain than the stars out of the sky . |
| 11 | Additional information can lead to better odds and bigger returns but if the information costs more to obtain than the increase in returns the result is a net loss . |
| 12 | Aditional information can lead to better odds and bigger returns but if the information costs more to obtain than the increase in returns the result is a net loss . |
| 13 | For men on beach reconnaissance had further to go than the saboteur or the raider bent on mere disruption : the reconnaissance report had to reach the main force . |
| 14 | Yesterday morning at Masham there was more to report than the poor reversing . |
| 15 | It can be seen that the trie was in fact faster to search than the reduced memory tree in all three cases , however it uses more memory ( approximately one and a half times as much as the reduced memory tree ) . |
| 16 | That is an easier position to implement than the one taken by the countries which drew up the Basle convention on transboundary movements of hazardous waste , agreed in 1989 and in force since May last year . |
| 17 | That type of structural error is rather more difficult to diagnose than the type where the results are always bad . |
| 18 | She had liked Anthony a great deal and , at this distance in time , the attractions of her affair with him were easier to remember than the drawbacks . |
| 19 | I do remember saying that we 'd go somewhere quiet so we can talk without any interruptions , and what better place to choose than the house ? ’ |
| 20 | And what better project to visit than the Gyle Centre , WCUK 's biggest ever shopping centre contract in Scotland . |
| 21 | The physical barriers that prevent some members of the public reaching a CAB are perhaps easier to tackle than the image barriers . |
| 22 | Lilian Hatton was an easier nut to crack than the girl who called herself Nora Fanshawe . |
| 23 | ‘ The box took longer to design than the board . ’ |
| 24 | But the one on the right it 's glass will cost you more to replace than the complete |
| 25 | It is more prolific and easier to grow than the Pinot Noir and , with a later bud-break , is less prone to frost , hence its extensive cultivation in the Marne Valley . |
| 26 | Far less obvious and less easy to rebut than the imperialism of Henty and Ballantyne , Marryat 's good-humoured , unselfconscious , professional patriotism is the ultimate strength of his work . |
| 27 | Yet the sobbing of the unfortunate women who had found lice in their hair had been easier to endure than the malicious pleasure of those who had found none . |
| 28 | Mr Robertson suggested the possible end of timber-cutting in 62 out of 156 national forests , covering 24m hectares ( 59m acres ) of land , where cutting has been costing more to administer than the Forest Service has been able to recoup from sales . |
| 29 | Such detailed procedures required to be operated by builders involve an equivalent , if not greater , cost to administer than the traditional PAYE scheme for directly employed labour . |
| 30 | The tone here is much richer and brighter , so consequently this is a more enjoyable guitar to play than the previous two , and really does sound better than its price suggests . |