Example sentences of "than a [noun sg] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out . |
| 2 | For some this means no more than a trip to the supermarket and a loading-up of the metal basket ; for others it means being lost on a plain in Greece , in the dark , in snow , in the rain , and finding what you seek only by some rare trick such as barking like a dog . |
| 3 | After a few minutes ’ pleasantries , they parted company , Isaacs to continue his beat , and Inspector Drewitt for another conference point with young PC Shorter , at Folly Crossroads , less than a mile to the north of the town . |
| 4 | Or is he speaking about that nation of complacent and indifferent shopkeepers who long for nothing other than a return to the days of imperial hegemony ? |
| 5 | This is more an opportunity to be grabbed than a threat to the survival of Japanese factories abroad . |
| 6 | The founders ' concern was to reverse the popular view of computers as a threat rather than a benefit to the peoples of the world . |
| 7 | The change to a community-based service … involves much more than a change to the pattern of service provision . |
| 8 | It was a product of Castro 's evolving strategy for dealing with the concrete hostility that he anticipated from the United States , rather than a response to the bombing itself . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This suggests that the fall in equity prices in October 1987 may have been no more than a correction to the market . |
| 11 | If the OED were left as no more than a monument to the English of the twentieth century it would not remain the twenty-first century 's dictionary for long . |
| 12 | The term used to describe this is ‘ salary sacrifice ’ , which is unfortunate since it wrongly implies a loss rather than a gain to the individual . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This algorithm works when the objective is to find a goal in the search space , rather than a path to the goal . |
| 15 | ( ii ) If the wife becomes entitled to the whole house and requests that the matrimonial home be conveyed or transferred to herself and her " new husband " ( to whom she is not married ) , is the wife making a gift for inheritance tax purposes to the " new husband " ? ( iii ) The Inland Revenue capital gains tax concession mentioned in Chapter 2 may not be available ( on a strict interpretation of its wording ) to the former husband if he conveys or transfers his interest in his former principal private residence to someone other than his spouse or ex-spouse. ( iv ) A conveyance to someone other than a party to the marriage will not attract the stamp duty relief of s83 of the Finance Act 1985 , ( see p22 ) but if it is a voluntary disposition , exemption L of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( Chapter 2 ) will apply . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | It provides little more than a footnote to the account of the journey home . |