Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Real improvements in human rights seems to be a harder test to apply than the holding of multi-party elections , however flawed . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | There can be no more public place to apologise than the House of Commons . |
| 4 | She had more important things to discuss than the weather . |
| 5 | In the modern landscape , woods , ponds , and heaths , for example , are increasingly isolated within enormous fields of pasture or arable land ; and the other major corridor for wildlife , the hedge system , has , of course , been cheaper and easier for farmers to remove than the river itself . |
| 6 | The LGS took less time and effort to prepare than the rice-salt mixture . |
| 7 | Lilian Hatton was an easier nut to crack than the girl who called herself Nora Fanshawe . |