Example sentences of "[adj] than the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans and the British were both more used than the French to co-operating closely with the USA and responded positively to NASA 's 1969 invitation to work on its Space-Lab programme , linked to the space shuttle concept , which succeeded the Apollo moon-landings . |
| 2 | Divisive though the national guard proposals might be , the Morning Chronicle took them up , and , being friendlier than the Globe to the radicals , did so with less of a repressive , middle-class twist . |
| 3 | There is some evidence that in searches containing a single " of " ( like " objectives of common agricultural policy " ) the portion to the left of the preposition should be weighted somewhat lower than the portion to the right . |
| 4 | In view of the consternation which Khrushchev 's policies aroused in the Party itself , his eventual deposition is less striking than the degree to which he succeeded in imposing his will on a reluctant leadership . |
| 5 | Some progress has been made in this area , since the input to such systems is typically simpler than the text to be processed in MT or IR systems , and the interactive nature of the application allows the system to resolve certain ambiguities by asking the user to rephrase the question . |
| 6 | With local elections looming in the near future , Communist leaders in Warsaw are already fearing another serious loss , possibly even more humiliating than the loss to Solidarity in national elections last June . |
| 7 | This should be slightly bigger than the piece to be worked . |
| 8 | Students of communications , instrumentation , special applications and ( marginally ) computing were more likely than the rest to be seeking work . |
| 9 | SERC funded students in both specialist and conversion courses were more likely than the average to be continuing their studies . |
| 10 | According to the information collected to date , students in the two largest subject areas , computing and micro-electronics , were more likely than the average to be in employment . |
| 11 | However , on the basis of Table 7.5 , and recognising some of the very small numbers involved , research students in the following areas were less likely than the average to be seeking employment : |
| 12 | A doctor of medicine is in the same social class as a company director but is more likely than the director to be accorded some degree of deference by the local community . |
| 13 | ( None is more rock-like than the attitude to men in ballet ; several of the boys in the Shepherd 's Bush class have left because of teasing . ) |
| 14 | It is n't wrong to feel angry , but if you let it out in ways like this , the distress will increase for both of you , and you risk losing more than the chance to be a mother . |
| 15 | A man 's wife , his child , these things are more than the world to him . |
| 16 | To many people , talk of greater denominational unity was nothing more than the application to religion of current political nostrums like collectivism or , worse , ‘ socialism ’ . |
| 17 | Mr Johnston said this week 's reform talks were no more than the overture to a long debate that would run into the winter and become embroiled in GATT negotiations . |
| 18 | The degree to which any particular development is exclusively attributable to the project remains a moot point , but in our view this is less important than the degree to which the project complemented and extended existing and coincidental developments , and in this respect the project has been most successful . |
| 19 | Supposition abounds not least because the custom has been shown to be much older than the legend to which its origin is attributed . |
| 20 | The girl in black was nineteen , five years older than the boy to whom she was bringing her petition . |
| 21 | It supplied him with nothing less than the key to a fresh overall grasp of theology which was able to cope with the most serious challenges proffered in the previous century . |
| 22 | He wrote a book expounding 1 Corinthians 7 to imply that the apostle was not really defending marriage , since his arguments fatally conceded that it was not the most perfect state for the believer , and no true believer could aspire to less than the perfection to which God called . |
| 23 | She began to understand how the bleak vision she had been shown was no more and no less than the extremes to which such powers might go if once they lost touch with the exactions of a loving heart . |
| 24 | Knowledge embodied in specific products is often too use-specific to spill over , development costs are often extremely large relative to the costs of basic research , and competitive feedback from output markets to research decisions is much weaker than the feedback to development decisions ( not least because it is frequently unclear which output markets a piece of new information is likely to affect ) . |
| 25 | Not only must the temperature be more extreme than the Sun to be practical , but the fuel is different . |
| 26 | When we finally left the school the return journey home was even worse than the journey to school with pupils being cheeky when you told them to sit down and face the front . |
| 27 | Although the gastrin release in response to wine was diminished compared with controls it was still higher than the response to ethanol . |
| 28 | At Riverside Studios during the interval of a play in Russian , I was chatting about anything other than the play to the Guardian 's critic , Michael Billington , when Mark Dignam approached Billington and , most courteously and with a touch of a bow , said : ‘ Mr Billington , I look forward to reading you tomorrow and seeing what I think of the play . ’ |
| 29 | The ‘ domino effect ’ was only partly successful , however , and this was very substantially responsible for both the course of the dispute and the lack of any final outcome , other than the return to work in March , 1985 . |
| 30 | You are not authorised to have access to any other areas of the Reserve other than the route to and from the hide . |