Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Repetto ( 1988a ) has discussed , the continued availability of subsidies for conversion of forest to pasture makes it more economic for the investor to clear further forest than to purchase fertiliser or control weeds in existing pasture . |
| 2 | In Waugh v British Rail Board [ 1980 ] AC 521 the House of Lords decided that where a report , following an inquiry , had been prepared as much to prevent further accidents as to obtain legal advice about potential claims , it was not privileged because its sole or dominant purpose was not submission to a legal adviser in view of litigation . |
| 3 | Smith said : ‘ I thought Graeme Souness was a bigger man than to come out with that stuff . |
| 4 | I have far larger tasks than to worry over her petty life , ’ Kopyion said . |
| 5 | Council will decide at a later date whether to make public the number of votes cast . |
| 6 | But this purported resolution of the paradox , as Fried concedes , only demonstrates the compatibility of uninhibited freedom to enter contracts with respect for autonomy ; it ‘ does not show that I am morally obligated to perform my promise at a later time if to do so proves inconvenient or costly ’ . |
| 7 | He was genially detached , as though brought along to Sleet for no better reason than to admire and be pleasant . |
| 8 | Robert Louis Stephenson had a phase for it , ‘ To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive , and the true success is to labour ’ . |
| 9 | Robert Louis Stephenson had a phrase for it , ‘ To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive , and the true success is to labour . ’ |
| 10 | To stroll into reality , the detail of it and the context , to unravel and to uncover it is a better thing than to sprint past , reading the billboards of science . ’ |
| 11 | Too often he had seen education serve no better purpose than to impose limits of caution and doubt on vision and imagination . |
| 12 | However , since she needed to fill her time until his return , what better way than to go to the capital city , and spend some days taking a look round ? |
| 13 | And what better way than to render all of those things unfashionable . |
| 14 | It is time that more attention was drawn to the contribution of the SBS to the war in the Mediterranean ; what better way than to republish this first class account . |
| 15 | What better revenge than to disgrace him by rigging a scandal involving the dead man 's daughter , a married woman ? |
| 16 | He can give no better value than to state the truth as he sees it , clearly and eloquently. this should be the aim of the painter and so also the ultimate aim of a commissioned work . |
| 17 | However fraught the relationship with their mother , how could she have cared so little for the older woman as to send notice of her intentions through another teenager ? |
| 18 | It seems easier to relate landforms in many deserts to earlier wetter periods than to present conditions . |
| 19 | ‘ I have no higher obligation than to safeguard the lives of American citizens , ’ he said on television . |
| 20 | Of the 10% or so that do not measure up , many are as likely to merge with stronger firms as to alter their investment strategies . |
| 21 | Speaking of God the prophet Habakkuk wrote ‘ Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on iniquity . ’ |
| 22 | The prophet Habbakuk expressed this truth very well when under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit he wrote concerning God ‘ Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on iniquity . ’ |
| 23 | I told her that we should both be delighted , that there was no greater compliment than to find another lady wearing one 's best outfit . |
| 24 | His smile deepened as he added , ‘ I have been told that I am a good lover and I can think of nothing in this world that would give me greater pleasure than to teach you the plaisirs d'amour . |
| 25 | Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see Eire not qualify . |
| 26 | Under his guidance , Parliament House was transformed from a nineteenth-century warren into a modern court-house and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to explore , and share with others , its secrets and treasures . |
| 27 | The matter gave him enormous regret , no doubt an unhappy situation whose solution lay in the lap of the all-merciful Allah ; nothing would give him greater pleasure than to return to Mr Laing his passport , which he had taken into nightly safekeeping only at the specific request of Mr Pyle . |
| 28 | ‘ What greater joy than to find a loving companion ? |
| 29 | So it looks as if our coal members are being forced to fund the government subsidy there ca n't be much nastier behaviour than to pay your own money to get the government off the hook of making your own members and your colleagues redundant . |
| 30 | That statement was not , in my view , ever intended to acknowledge the existence of any wider discretion than to exclude ( 1 ) admissible evidence which would probably have a prejudicial influence upon the minds of the jury that would be out of proportion to its true evidential value ; and ( 2 ) evidence tantamount to a self-incriminatory admission which was obtained from the defendant , after the offence had been committed , by means which would justify a judge in excluding an actual confession which had the like self-incriminating effect . |