Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had more important things to worry about than the time . ’ |
| 2 | DRDA application programming interfaces are more complex to write to than the SQL Access Group interfaces , he says . |
| 3 | But we can see that he had something more to work on than the Roman thirst for gold . |
| 4 | And there , as someone else said , erm earlier , organizing their party , the day of their life which happens to be also their wedding day , and those sort of parties are far more fun to work at than the far more stilted family affairs that do happen for younger people . |
| 5 | Well , I do play some , but I 'm not like ‘ the solo guy ’ because I think a good song is much harder to come by than a good solo . |
| 6 | Approval , in my experience , is usually somewhat easier to come by than the thing approved . ’ |
| 7 | The English aristocracy have , it seems , rather less to answer for than the French ; they are merely as redundant as the dinosaur . |
| 8 | Some people found the sing-song voice a barrier , and found the beginning and the middle easier to listen to than the end . |
| 9 | The second question is easier to speculate on than the first . |
| 10 | The traveller to New Zealand from England has more jet-lag to contend with than the traveller to Africa . |
| 11 | I found the early years far harder to cope with than the teens and others often agree with me . |
| 12 | It is no wonder that teachers find ‘ difficult ’ girls far harder to cope with than the difficult boy . |
| 13 | The first , though the answer may sometimes be complicated , is much more easy to deal with than the second , because in one case one is dealing with fact and in the other with personal preference and feeling , which are unpredictable and difficult to justify to the determinedly sceptical . |
| 14 | He imagined a policeman with nothing more to go on than a tiny , once brightly embroidered , label , a square inch of bloodstained , earth-stained , half-rotted cloth , hawking it round boutiques in Kilburn and West Hendon , narrowing the field , finally coming to an importers ' warehouse … |
| 15 | The second variant I find more difficult to account for than the first , for which there are both specific and general explanations today . |
| 16 | Being a more acceptable sound , it is easier to live with than the tinnitus . |
| 17 | I do n't think he finds himself any easier to live with than the rest of us . |
| 18 | When things go wrong , they will want more to turn to than a toll-free telephone help-line . |
| 19 | In terms of the simple free volume concept each chain end requires more free volume in which to move about than a segment in the chain interior . |
| 20 | At the time , however , the question of Ho Chi Minh 's communism and his connections with Moscow and with ‘ international communism , seemed somewhat academic and certainly no more important to begin with than the mounting suspicions of France 's unreconstructed colonialism . |