Example sentences of "[to-vb] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the drought he had experienced on his last visit , Gould wrote that , ’ It is easier for the imagination to conceive than the pen to depict the horrors of so dreadful a visitation . ’ |
| 2 | The United States found the implications of these new political realities harder to accept than the rest of the international community , which had almost unanimously welcomed the PLO 's clarified accommodationism . |
| 3 | He kissed me again , a different , unanguished sort of kiss which was somehow much more difficult to bear than the other . |
| 4 | Additional information can lead to better odds and bigger returns but if the information costs more to obtain than the increase in returns the result is a net loss . |
| 5 | Aditional information can lead to better odds and bigger returns but if the information costs more to obtain than the increase in returns the result is a net loss . |
| 6 | For men on beach reconnaissance had further to go than the saboteur or the raider bent on mere disruption : the reconnaissance report had to reach the main force . |
| 7 | When it comes to the most sensitive and important areas of journalism , like Northern Ireland or official secrecy , British broadcasters are less free to report than a camera team arriving from Perugia or Poughkeepsie . |
| 8 | That type of structural error is rather more difficult to diagnose than the type where the results are always bad . |
| 9 | This means that , to an author sitting at the keyboard of , say , an Apple Macintosh , the biggest of printing presses has become no harder to instruct than a laser-printer down the corridor . |
| 10 | I do remember saying that we 'd go somewhere quiet so we can talk without any interruptions , and what better place to choose than the house ? ’ |
| 11 | In the fourth century , Athenian democracy was curtailed in ways harder to resist than a Hyperbolus , who could simply be got rid of : the institutionalized power of the men who administered the various state funds grew in the course of the fourth century , and as such people got above themselves Athens became a less democratic place than it had been in the fifth century . |
| 12 | The physical barriers that prevent some members of the public reaching a CAB are perhaps easier to tackle than the image barriers . |
| 13 | Lilian Hatton was an easier nut to crack than the girl who called herself Nora Fanshawe . |
| 14 | ‘ The box took longer to design than the board . ’ |
| 15 | Far less obvious and less easy to rebut than the imperialism of Henty and Ballantyne , Marryat 's good-humoured , unselfconscious , professional patriotism is the ultimate strength of his work . |
| 16 | Mr Robertson suggested the possible end of timber-cutting in 62 out of 156 national forests , covering 24m hectares ( 59m acres ) of land , where cutting has been costing more to administer than the Forest Service has been able to recoup from sales . |
| 17 | This is more expensive to buy , but the torch part is lighter to handle than a blowlamp and you do n't have to worry so much about running out of gas halfway through a job . |
| 18 | Real improvements in human rights seems to be a harder test to apply than the holding of multi-party elections , however flawed . |
| 19 | She had more important things to discuss than the weather . |
| 20 | However , neither UA1 nor UA2 has spotted a potential Zo so far , although this particle should be easier to identify than the W. It is predicted to decay into an electron-position pair , which would leave two clear tracks in the apparatus . |
| 21 | Obviously some situations are much more serious and therefore more difficult to resolve than a dispute over an untidy room . |
| 22 | A staple gun is often quicker and safer to use than a hammer and nails . |
| 23 | This makes the format much friendlier to use than a desktop computer and keyboard . |
| 24 | A further advantage of the projector is that it is cleaner to use than the chalkboard ( Fig. 6.2 ) . |
| 25 | It is to stress than no piece of research , no matter how expensive or extensive , stands alone but becomes part of a corpus that is argued over , debated , used , criticised , ignored , reviewed , assessed , discarded , used as the basis for further research , and more . |
| 26 | There is something rather incongruous about a helicopter performing a roll , yet , given a suitable model , it is probably easier to do than a loop . |
| 27 | Any version of the resulting constitution which assumes the contrary is no more entitled to respect than the argument that the United Kingdom has lacked constitutional government since King James II threw the Great Seal into the Thames . |
| 28 | There can be no more public place to apologise than the House of Commons . |
| 29 | Fastenings are made as simple as possible : ladies might use an all-in-one slip-over brassiè , or one with front fastening ; shoes might have velcro or elastic laces rather than normal laces ; shirts would use velcro strips rather than buttons ; men 's trousers would have a zip fly rather than buttons , with a velcro fastening at the top ; braces are easier to manage than a belt to hold trousers up ; a lady 's skirt might have an elasticated waist or a velcro fastening . |
| 30 | Her Toyota was a big red Hi-Lux with four-wheel drive , much easier for her to manage than the estate 's lumbering ex-army Land Rover . |