Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] than [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was about ten years old , a trip to the village from the South end was a bigger thrill than a trip to a big city would be to a present day child , later working in the village as a teenager , the dances every Saturday and Monday night was enjoyment never to be forgot . |
| 2 | If the principle of induction is to be defended as reasonable , then some more sophisticated argument than an appeal to its obviousness must be offered . |
| 3 | It is also time to worry , for such a strong consensus generally has an over-reaction on its coat-tails , one that could do more damage than the action to which it is a response . |
| 4 | Thirty exit points would take no more room than the entrance to a multi-storey car park and the tunnel would carry one three-lane ‘ layer ’ of cars travelling in one direction and a bottom ‘ layer ’ travelling in the other . |
| 5 | Why does a barrow boy selling bunched radishes and salad greens in the market at Chinon know by instinct so to arrange his produce that he has created a little spectacle as fresh and gay as a Dufy painting , and you are at once convinced that unless you taste some of his radishes you will be missing an experience which seems of more urgency than a visit to the Chateau of Chinon ? |
| 6 | In both cases the proportion is closer to the optimal proportion than the output to the optimal output . |
| 7 | But clean-ups and purges were less a sustained policy than a reaction to popular events and anxieties . |