Example sentences of "[adj] to [det] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smoke is probably unburnt fuel If the carb is a little bit worn it will do this The Solex carb is more prone to this than the later Zenith It may also be slight oil burning which is also very common as the engine starts and only happens for a few seconds This is a ‘ feature ’ of Land Rovers and is not really cause for concern |
| 2 | The language had to be one accessible to more than the ruling elite , so it became one or other dialect of the vernacular . |
| 3 | This habit is more natural to some than to others , but conscious discipline is needed to extend it into every aspect of the farm . |
| 4 | This was equal to more than one-fourth of all American exports ’ . |
| 5 | With a burden of about 150 kilograms — equal to more than a quarter of its body weight — a camel burns only around 15 per cent more fuel than it burns unladen . |
| 6 | It requires a wider view of both the sources of control and the contexts in which they operate , and must be applicable to more than just male working-class crime . |
| 7 | They were old friends whose support of each other over the years in the trials and tribulations of love affairs , marriages , jobs , lonelinesses , had become far more important to each than any possible physical flutter . |
| 8 | But its influence is attributable to more than its accessibility . |
| 9 | With Stacker 3.0 it 's now possible to more than double your disk capacity using the package 's customisable compression features . |
| 10 | We seem to be more alert to that than many others ; hence our firm determination , which was re-emphasised by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister this afternoon , to make subsidiarity work . |
| 11 | Right : A tropical chiggoe flea that has burrowed into the sole of a foot , gorged itself , laid eggs and been squeezed out , having grown from less than one millimetre wide to more than a centimetre . |
| 12 | That Harthacnut was a Dane is less relevant to this than one might think . |
| 13 | The diversity of munition products is exemplified by , on the one hand , the gun and aperture sights for the American Lewis guns , high precision work ( they had to be correct to less than a thousandth part of an inch ) of which 27 , 900 were produced , and on the other hand the unpacking and assembly of the American-manufactured Mercer and Hyster Mobile Cranes , 169 of the former and 207 of the latter being dealt with in addition to 37 Elwell Parker Lift Trucks . |
| 14 | The former group is a subset of the latter since if outputs and prices are sustainable to " ultrafree " entry they will definitely be sustainable to less than free entry . |
| 15 | And I think that keeping the Orkney old fashioned cow is near to that than crossing with continental . |
| 16 | It will be recalled that Section 37 of the Finance Act , 1969 provided for the ascertainment for the purposes of estate duty of the ‘ slice ’ of the property in which the interest of ; beneficiary who was entitled to less than the whole of the in come or who had a joint interest in property which was no income-producing subsisted . |
| 17 | The full basic pension for a man or woman ( April 1992/93 ) is £54.15 a week , £86.70 for a married couple ( unless your spouse is entitled to more than the £32.55 spouse 's addition on his/her own contributions , in which case you will receive more ) . |