Example sentences of "than to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The twenty ( or thirty ) thousand Cornishmen crossing the Tamar hand in hand and advancing on London owe more to legend and the stirring song than to history . |
| 32 | Palestine at the advent of the Christian era is no longer a nebulous place belonging more to myth than to history . |
| 33 | While this is perhaps possible , it seems rather more likely that the account needs to be modified in respect of this detail , that Molla Husrev went to Bursa to teach in his already existing medrese rather than to build , and then teach in , the medrese . |
| 34 | Consequently , in its origins Greek historiography was more closely affiliated to epic poetry than to philosophy , and in its development it retained a commemorative function . |
| 35 | Naturally enough , the new , faster , mode of transport acted to reduce trade rather than to increase it and the mill suffered declining fortunes until it ceased to operate as a flour mill shortly after World War II . |
| 36 | Neither of the formulas so far mentioned will do ; the Gibbs formula gives an entropy that for an isolated system of molecules is easily shown to stay constant in time rather than to increase , and the Boltzmann formula also does not have the desired non-decrease property if the system is not a gas . |
| 37 | Attacks on its conduct ( e.g. vertical restraints , price discrimination , etc. ) may serve only to decrease its efficiency in extracting monopoly rents , rather than to increase economic efficiency or consumer welfare . |
| 38 | It is difficult to imagine , now that the Red Planet is knee-deep in silicite replicas and sentimental re-creations of the ‘ Ancients ’ owing more to fancy than to archaeology , but at the time of the Big Step the only vestiges of that once proud race of architects and engineers were the great canals . |
| 39 | than to skill |
| 40 | Whilst the self-appraisal might be viewed as the school 's attempt to defend its policies and practices , rather than to appraise itself , and to make a special case for extra resources and improved staffing , the inspection could be seen as a process of ensuring that the school was performing to an acceptable standard and that no serious problems existed in terms of teacher performance and in terms of resources needed to carry out the curriculum . |
| 41 | Above all , we must remember that music inclines more to emotion than to cerebralism . |
| 42 | But it , too , addresses itself much more to feminism than to psychology . |
| 43 | Thus Castro 's harangues against Washington were attempts to introduce an anti-American feeling rather than to rally support around one that already existed ( which is the case in many Latin American countries ) . |
| 44 | The point is made more seriously , and more savagely , in Bradbury 's The History Man ( 1975 ) , a fiercely partisan novel where an academic militant is exposed as a manipulative hypocrite , his ambitions directed more to sex and money than to revolution . |
| 45 | ‘ You 'd better , ’ said Joe , who thought it wiser to help her get up and fight her hard luck than to harp on it . |
| 46 | It 's far better to undertrain at a consistent level rather than to overtrain , which inevitably leads to staleness and possibly injury . |
| 47 | They also seek to become owners of policy initiatives rather than to act as transmitters for central political goals . |
| 48 | The coverage of industrial relations , merger consequences , redundancies , equal opportunity legislation , and so on is designed to make the reader aware of issues , and the implications of modern legislation , rather than to act as a manual of practice or standard work of reference . |
| 49 | They found that five-year-olds and nine-year-olds showed a tendency to respond to How can you tell that ? questions by referring to a cause rather than to evidence , though this tendency was less strong for their nine-year-olds than for their five-year-olds . |
| 50 | The strict rules of evidence do not apply in arbitrations ( Ord 19 , r 5(2) , Term 3 ) , but , of course , the district judge or other arbitrator may feel that he should give less weight to evidence which is hearsay than to evidence which is direct . |
| 51 | Many linguists in recent years have questioned the early assumptions of the discipline with regard to literacy and their work now serves to undermine rather than to support those arguments regarding literacy that I have referred to as the ‘ autonomous ’ model . |
| 52 | Within Whitehall , therefore , there was surprise and concern that evacuation should have revealed so many symptoms of inner-city poverty , but the reaction of officials to these revelations was to seek their cause in working-class mores rather than to swing round to support for increased State intervention to raise living standards . |
| 53 | A ‘ C ’ rating , for instance , would indicate comprehensive coverage of an element , while a ‘ K ’ rating shows that the package is geared more to underpinning knowledge than to competence itself . |
| 54 | The easiest way to solve the problem is to feed a high-fat , complete food which has been scientifically balanced for the working/hyperactive dog , rather than to play around with the ingredients yourself . |
| 55 | This , in fact , referred to the sequestration of a clerk 's benefice by the bishop rather than to excommunication , but its principle was all-embracing and even included the servants of royal servants . |
| 56 | It has been suggested that Truman was influenced more by a determination to warn the Soviet Union and to compel cooperation in eastern Europe rather than to procure Japanese surrender in itself . |
| 57 | Nevertheless , around one in two Germans in both the American and the British Zones — and a percentage on the increase — thought that National Socialism had basically been a good idea , badly carried out , and were far more favourably disposed to it than to communism . |
| 58 | Perón 's capacity to deliver the tangible benefits that established unions working against the state apparatus could not hope to obtain for their members ( labour 's share of the national income increased by twenty-five per cent between 1946 and 1950 ) ensured that the loyalties of massive sectors of the post-1955 labour movement were to Peronism rather than to Communism or socialism . |
| 59 | To continue to applaud , rather than to call into question the already prevalent style of English teaching which makes space for pupil involvement with texts on a number of levels , and in a variety of ways |
| 60 | Proofs and Three Parables by George Steiner Faber , £5.99 READING Proofs and Three Parables , George Steiner 's latest collection of short stories ( he prefers to call them ‘ allegories of argument ’ ) , it is not difficult to see why dialectical method should be something that is more common to modern philosophy than to fiction . |