Example sentences of "[adj] to [pers pn] than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we returned together to Ninfania , you and I , in the late Fifties , there was litter in the streets of southern Italy , and it made them look more unfamiliar to you than the new buildings put up after the war and the bombing . |
| 2 | The Thames marshes ensured that the ague was carried into the courts of kings , who were less resistant to it than the hardy fen men . |
| 3 | I could comfort myself , especially at night , by recalling the sights and scenery of Abyssinia , far more real to me than the cold bleak English downs behind the school . |
| 4 | Of course , I 'm an old lady now and sometimes , you know , the past seems more real to me than the present . " |
| 5 | The past , reflected Sara , when the peacock silk curtains were newly hung in the Chinese room , was probably more real to her than the present . |
| 6 | There was no offering more gratifying to him than the trust of adolescents . |
| 7 | For instance , the instruction ‘ Put it over there ’ is far less useful to them than the more precise directive ‘ Put that back on the table by the door . ’ |
| 8 | The commendable objectives were ( i ) to present private investors with a document which they might find more helpful to them than the full statutory accounts , ( ii ) to reduce an appalling waste of paper , since undoubtedly a great many such investors consign the glossy brochures containing the accounts ( ii ) to their waste-paper baskets after only the most cursory of glances ( if any ) and , perhaps , ( iii ) to reduce the company 's postage — though it is unlikely that any saving on that could be commensurate with the cost of preparing an additional document and , in effect , having it audited . |
| 9 | In 1956 , of course , the Conservative party was heading for one of the few post-war political events unequivocally more damaging to it than the current poll-tax furore — the Suez crisis . |
| 10 | Eventually , however , as the tutor became more important to her than the tuition , she found herself reluctant to mention Davis to her husband . |
| 11 | Slowly Michael Ramsey began to realize that the eternal verities were more important to him than the political excitements . |
| 12 | Then I got my time and felt even better — the time was more important to me than the medal . |
| 13 | In fact , since you buy a computer to solve problems , and not just to look good on a desk , the software available might be more important to you than the particular machine bought . |
| 14 | Believe in dialectical materialism and the class struggle will be more important to you than the kingdom of God . |
| 15 | If the idea itself is more important to you than the glory reflecting from its success , then raise the idea at a meeting so that it becomes an idea generated by a team . |
| 16 | That part of me which , when first we met , I should willingly have made over to Jean-Claude — and which he seemed to make no attempt to acquire — was , of course , no more available to him than the source of his being was to me . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's more precious to us than the crown jewels . ’ |
| 18 | The world of the twentieth century was more alien to him than the more recognizable vision of hell . |
| 19 | But when the whole sum is due , by no intendment the acceptance of parcel can be a satisfaction to the plaintiff ; but in the case at bar it was resolved that the payment and acceptance of parcel before the day in satisfaction of the whole would be a good satisfaction in regard of circumstance of time ; for peradventure parcel of it before the day would be more beneficial to him than the whole at the day , and the value of the satisfaction is not material ; so if I am bound in £20 to pay you £10 at Westminster , and you request me to pay you £5 at the day at York , and you will accept it in full satisfaction for the whole £10 , it is a good satisfaction for the whole , for the expenses to pay it at York is sufficient satisfaction . ’ |
| 20 | In fact , the individual migrants who participate in this urban migration manage to generate income which is more attractive to them than the income they would have earned by remaining in the rural areas . |