Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is some evidence that in searches containing a single " of " ( like " objectives of common agricultural policy " ) the portion to the left of the preposition should be weighted somewhat lower than the portion to the right . |
| 2 | In view of the consternation which Khrushchev 's policies aroused in the Party itself , his eventual deposition is less striking than the degree to which he succeeded in imposing his will on a reluctant leadership . |
| 3 | However , on the basis of Table 7.5 , and recognising some of the very small numbers involved , research students in the following areas were less likely than the average to be seeking employment : |
| 4 | In my view Labour 's stunning defeat requires of it much more than a commitment to PR and a pre-electoral arrangement with the Liberal Democrats . |
| 5 | The degree to which any particular development is exclusively attributable to the project remains a moot point , but in our view this is less important than the degree to which the project complemented and extended existing and coincidental developments , and in this respect the project has been most successful . |
| 6 | Supposition abounds not least because the custom has been shown to be much older than the legend to which its origin is attributed . |
| 7 | Knowledge embodied in specific products is often too use-specific to spill over , development costs are often extremely large relative to the costs of basic research , and competitive feedback from output markets to research decisions is much weaker than the feedback to development decisions ( not least because it is frequently unclear which output markets a piece of new information is likely to affect ) . |
| 8 | As the structure is not a single crystal , the sizes found vary from somewhat greater than a crystallite to diameters of a few millimetres . |
| 9 | We had a good flight home with excellent connection times , which made it less exhausting than the journey to Jo'burg . |
| 10 | The Germans and the British were both more used than the French to co-operating closely with the USA and responded positively to NASA 's 1969 invitation to work on its Space-Lab programme , linked to the space shuttle concept , which succeeded the Apollo moon-landings . |
| 11 | With local elections looming in the near future , Communist leaders in Warsaw are already fearing another serious loss , possibly even more humiliating than the loss to Solidarity in national elections last June . |
| 12 | Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out . |
| 13 | Students of communications , instrumentation , special applications and ( marginally ) computing were more likely than the rest to be seeking work . |
| 14 | SERC funded students in both specialist and conversion courses were more likely than the average to be continuing their studies . |
| 15 | According to the information collected to date , students in the two largest subject areas , computing and micro-electronics , were more likely than the average to be in employment . |
| 16 | A doctor of medicine is in the same social class as a company director but is more likely than the director to be accorded some degree of deference by the local community . |
| 17 | ( None is more rock-like than the attitude to men in ballet ; several of the boys in the Shepherd 's Bush class have left because of teasing . ) |
| 18 | Lewis was subtle enough to see that this was at best a half-truth , and perhaps he was beginning to sense that what Tolkien 's friendship had to offer him was something rather more important than a regress to me nursery . |
| 19 | Surely , she reasoned , the future of a child was more important than a promise to a man who was now dead ? |
| 20 | Not only must the temperature be more extreme than the Sun to be practical , but the fuel is different . |
| 21 | Southey 's life was published in 1820 and even then its tone was rather more prophetic than a reference to an " evil " which already existed . |
| 22 | Although the gastrin release in response to wine was diminished compared with controls it was still higher than the response to ethanol . |
| 23 | If Casaubon had in mind something more precise than an alternative to the disguised Machiavellianism of the contemporary Tacitists , he did not make it clear . |
| 24 | A model with a clockwise rotor will already have a slight lean to the right and a turn in that direction will require a greater and more noticeable-bank than a turn to the left . |
| 25 | The first is a reason at a more particular and factual level and is correspondingly more sensitive than the other to changes in hypotheses about the emergence of human beings . |
| 26 | If the free trade discussions were pushed too hard , Spaak and others feared that they might prove more attractive than the EEC to many interests . |
| 27 | This should be slightly bigger than the piece to be worked . |
| 28 | In substance , the Church of England is now self-regulating and Parliament 's role in connection with its legislation little more than a throwback to the days when the established Church had a more substantial role to play in the affairs of the State . |
| 29 | Some progress has been made in this area , since the input to such systems is typically simpler than the text to be processed in MT or IR systems , and the interactive nature of the application allows the system to resolve certain ambiguities by asking the user to rephrase the question . |
| 30 | The Revenue is centralising its cases on this point at claims branch and of course the value to the Revenue of fighting these cases is far greater than the value to individual taxpayers ; on the other hand , the financial risk for the individual taxpayer of being the first to take such a case before the Special Commissioners or higher , would be extremely high . |