Example sentences of "than to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My objections were originally on the grounds of freedom , rather than efficiency , although in the event , so far as Britain was concerned , socialism led more to stagnation than to tyranny . |
| 2 | Eventually , formal administrative structures were created between the Task Force and local government , but the Task Force 's determination to implement specific projects rather than to help create a broader and longer-term strategy for the conurbation inevitably created tensions . |
| 3 | His or her job is to deal with the child 's physical needs ( e.g. arising from incontinence , lack of mobility or impaired speech ) rather than to help teach the whole class . |
| 4 | Get it to analyse specific behaviour and situations rather than to censure you as a person . |
| 5 | Mr Smith assures us that this ‘ strength ’ is because the Labour Party owes more to Methodism than to Marxism . |
| 6 | I have found more difficulty teaching the relational model to computer students ( who want to think in terms of computer jargon and are looking for complications that do not exist ) than to management students . |
| 7 | Accordingly , if anomalies appear in the results , this is attributed to defects in the experiment rather than to wilfulness on the part of the animals under investigation . |
| 8 | Over the years councils had been forced into deep conflict with Scottish ministers over matters which were too often more akin to right-wing dogma than to relevance . |
| 9 | All the evidence suggests that , when consulted , the people of Europe have a vision far closer to de Gaulle 's loose ‘ Europe à l'anglaise ’ than to M. Delors ' unitary state . |
| 10 | It is useful to compare differences rather than to look for one shape in isolation . |
| 11 | Might it be easier to measure this rather than to look directly for structural changes ? |
| 12 | It 's a more importantly to make sure it 's normal rather than to look for a problem with it but Now you 're not trying to escape , are you Jade ? |
| 13 | Recruitment adversiding advertising for example virtually ground to a halt as businesses started to shed er , people , rather than to look for them . |
| 14 | These results owe less to diversification of any kind than to capital gains in the market for corporate control . |
| 15 | For the latter it is better to buy a tape , or to make your own , and listen to that , rather than to try to do it yourself as you go along . |
| 16 | If we are to explore the actual and perceived experiences of students , it may be better to work from their views rather than to try to squeeze them into some predetermined mould through questionnaires and attitude Inventories . |
| 17 | This growth owes more to the birth-rate than to evangelism : Muslims are younger than the rest of the population ( half the South Asians are under 16 ) and usually have large families . |
| 18 | The droid was conceived as , in part , a satire on US technology , particularly automotive design , intended to look impressive and desirable to buy rather than to function well , with its ‘ killer whale ’ head , no eyes but a large , useless hole for a mouth . |
| 19 | I think we should encourage this , the the signing of the treaty rather than to rush too , er , to the recognition like of German and the French . |
| 20 | The wider implications of agrarian reform were tackled in this period , for there was a redistribution of credit in favour of smallholders and the state took over some marketing networks , though this was primarily to get supplies to the urban consumer at low prices , rather than to assist agriculture ( Castillo and Lehmann 1982 ) . |
| 21 | ROS : Both your majesties Might , by the sovereign power you have of us , Put your dread pleasures more into command Than to entreaty . |
| 22 | Further problems highlighted by the chapter are the failure to recognize ethnic diversity and differences ( Asian is used to describe people from' India , Pakistan , Bangladesh , Sri Lanka , for example ) ; over-simplification of correlations and exclusion of environmental and societal influences ( e.g. attributing a black child 's intellectual and emotional impairment to parenting rather than to school and/or other family and community ) . |
| 23 | However , the difference is that the powers of disposal in clause 4 will then stem from a Labour Government who have a strong commitment to expand collections rather than to freeze acquisition funds . |
| 24 | In 1914 only the United Kingdom sent more of its manufactures to non-European nations than to European ; yet she was also Germany 's best customer , and Germany came second only to India as a buyer of British goods . |
| 25 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |
| 26 | When ministers uttered phrases such as the need for ‘ public accountability ’ — a suitably imprecise but popular slogan — they usually meant accountability to themselves , rather than to Parliament or the public . |
| 27 | A provincial assembly of the clergy , to which proctors came in greater numbers than to parliament and which all abbots and priors were entitled to attend , was increasingly the body through which the clergy were taxed ; gradually the name of convocation , which had been applied haphazardly from the early twelfth century to a variety of ecclesiastical gatherings , was reserved for this assembly . |
| 28 | The result was a slow leakage of power , to individual ministers and the new and still half-formed institution of the Cabinet rather than to Parliament itself . |
| 29 | However , after the initial account of his feelings , the narrator uses 'sand " in much the same way as " flock " in the passage describing Lok : it too seems closer to underlexicalisation than to metaphor . |
| 30 | The letter to the Registrars , from a rather remote region somewhat nearer to the Equator than to Cancer , began reasonably enough . |