Example sentences of "[adj] to [pers pn] than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we returned together to Ninfania , you and I , in the late Fifties , there was litter in the streets of southern Italy , and it made them look more unfamiliar to you than the new buildings put up after the war and the bombing . |
| 2 | The Thames marshes ensured that the ague was carried into the courts of kings , who were less resistant to it than the hardy fen men . |
| 3 | I could comfort myself , especially at night , by recalling the sights and scenery of Abyssinia , far more real to me than the cold bleak English downs behind the school . |
| 4 | The commendable objectives were ( i ) to present private investors with a document which they might find more helpful to them than the full statutory accounts , ( ii ) to reduce an appalling waste of paper , since undoubtedly a great many such investors consign the glossy brochures containing the accounts ( ii ) to their waste-paper baskets after only the most cursory of glances ( if any ) and , perhaps , ( iii ) to reduce the company 's postage — though it is unlikely that any saving on that could be commensurate with the cost of preparing an additional document and , in effect , having it audited . |
| 5 | In 1956 , of course , the Conservative party was heading for one of the few post-war political events unequivocally more damaging to it than the current poll-tax furore — the Suez crisis . |
| 6 | Slowly Michael Ramsey began to realize that the eternal verities were more important to him than the political excitements . |
| 7 | In fact , since you buy a computer to solve problems , and not just to look good on a desk , the software available might be more important to you than the particular machine bought . |