Example sentences of "[det] [noun] to [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was more upset at having caused this worry to Lachlan than at the near-strangling ; and it had n't once occurred to him to draw his dirk to save himself . |
| 2 | ‘ It would be easier to get this back to London than to get an insurance assessor out here , ’ I added on the spur of the moment . |
| 3 | Trollope thus praises Mr Thorne for continuing to inhabit the great hall at Ullathorne Court ( there is no dining-room ) , with no more concession to modernity than a modem grate , although it is now only the socially acceptable , not the humble , who come to the great front door that opens into it . |
| 4 | This programme has given more coverage to committees than any other programme , with 25% of its attention being given to select committees and 6% to standing committees ( compared with 9% and 3% respectively , in Parliament ) . |
| 5 | Fig 32 With the weight well forward again , the nose is in the water , offering far more resistance to turning than when it was in the air . |
| 6 | Brophy however insisted that if test-tube fusion holds up it would have such a major impact on society that ‘ Sometimes one has more responsibility to society than to the scientific community . ’ |
| 7 | These are sentiments of the Stoics , and noble and inspiring though they are , there is even more advantage to misfortune than they show . |
| 8 | Josef gave us a thank you letter from the Red Cross , and a teacher told us that Britain supplies more aid to Croatia than any other country . |
| 9 | The Peak Park 's restrictions to moorland in the last three years have caused far more disruption to climbing than bolts ever have , and these were bans imposed by people who are sympathetic to our cause . |
| 10 | The obvious introductions were made , and what ensued was to bring more pleasure to Repton than any job he had ever done — ‘ such a specimen of my art , ’ he wrote of his work at Sheringham , ‘ as I never before had the opportunity of displaying ’ . |
| 11 | He may give more weight to pattern than to vocabulary : how to say things rather than what to say . |
| 12 | Those who have paid special attention to the interactions of parents and very young children say that the confusion between what belongs to self and what belongs to others applies with even more force to feelings than it does to bodies , and for very much longer . |
| 13 | Historical biography may be hard to write , but it draws more readers to history than any other genre . |
| 14 | Perhaps there are more advantages to membership than people imagine ! |
| 15 | Partly because she spent much of the day alone in the house painting , she welcomed company in the evenings and would press Rodrigo into more visits to Soho than he wished to make . |
| 16 | The Armstrongs were a lawless lot , paying little more allegiance to Scotland than they did to England , for they straddled the borderline ; so they were not to be trusted , but Johnstone and Jardine assured the Regent that on this occasion they would not cause trouble , for although they would care nothing about Balliol one way or the other , they hated Dacre , who as English Middle March Warden had recently hanged some of their people . |
| 17 | The tensions associated with starting school could begin to be dissolved long before that anxiously awaited first day , a day which often causes more anguish to parents than it does to their children . |
| 18 | Blacks were subject to far more drastic inequalities than were Catholics , therefore civil rights made far more difference to blacks than to Catholics . |
| 19 | Both Blumler , examining coverage by 31 BBC and ITV regional stations , and Hetherington bring out the extensive nature of these programmes , although performance has varied considerably between the regions , with stations in Scotland , Wales and the North appearing to pay more attention to Parliament than stations in the South or the Midlands . |
| 20 | It was true that the press gave far more attention to shortcomings than had been the case in the recent past , but those shortcomings were a feature of life itself and would not disappear if the newspapers simply ignored them . |
| 21 | In the moments immediately following the arm injury to Craig Chalmers in Saturday 's international match at Twickenham ( see picture below ) , Dewi Morris summoned assistance from the touchline even before play had come to a standstill , while another England player also paid more attention to Chalmers than to the ball . |
| 22 | On his journey ‘ through five republics ’ ( Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Uruguay , and Venezuela ) in 1905 he devoted more attention to railways than to any other single development . |
| 23 | This procedure is unusual in that Genette devotes far more attention to Proust than other narratological studies have to actual texts , and it is also unusual in that Proust 's novel is an infinitely more complex work than those which narrative theories have commonly analyzed : with Boccaccio 's Decameron , Todorov was taking relatively simple specimens as points of reference for his narratological analyses . |
| 24 | A new wc suite is by no means difficult to fit , but requires a little more attention to detail than the rests of the bathroom . |
| 25 | In this aspect she is linked , as I mentioned in Chapter One , with Harriet Finlay Johnson who attached more importance to content than any pioneers since . |
| 26 | The new tariff also made payment of war debts by European countries to the USA more difficult since it prevented them from selling more goods to America than they bought from the new world . |
| 27 | It follows that the courts can contribute to the prison numbers crisis either by sending more people to prison than they need to , or by sending them there for longer than is necessary . |
| 28 | Doctors have not always welcomed the establishment of computer systems in hospitals — computers have often proved difficult to use , and the information has been of more use to managers than to clinicians . |
| 29 | This constitutes " a green desert " of no more use to wildlife than a regularly mown and weeded lawn . |
| 30 | She was rarely at school , kept away constantly by a variety of excuses dreamed up by her father and brothers who all decided that an education was of less use to Ellie than a clean and tidy home was to them . |