Example sentences of "[subord] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the beefs I have about accommodation for elderly people is the fact that by , that the purpose built , very excellent , bungalows and flats for elderly citizens are restricted to one bedroom which , to which but is by government decree to keep the cost down , but it does seem to me to be very heartless because elderly people 's children are unable to come and stay with them except to the great deal of discomfort and perhaps as society grows a little more considerate for the fact that the percentage of elderly people will get even greater as the years go on , then they should make allowance and provide them for the facilities to enable them to be visited by their children and grandchildren . |
| 2 | The first part of the Book of Daniel ( approximately chapters 1–6 ) and the Books of Esther and Judith are more likely to belong to the third than to the second century B.C. They combine edification with entertainment . |
| 3 | It was a situation whose benefits went largely to the richer tenant-farmers and the landowners rather than to the ordinary yeoman or labourer . |
| 4 | Although more tension may be applied to the lower posterior wall of the reservoir than to the anterior wall during construction , one would expect to show greater differences in scores for these sites in relatively recently constructed reservoirs compared with those that had been in situ for several years , and the pathological changes would also be expected to be more like those of mucosal ischaemia . |
| 5 | Strictly speaking , Hesiod refers to a golden race rather than to the golden age of later writers . |
| 6 | Even the English paid grudging tribute to this ; those who accompanied Margaret Tudor north in 1503 , for her marriage to Mary 's grandfather , James IV , were less than gracious about the elaborate and highly expensive entertainment provided by the king , but their contempt was mitigated , for they ‘ returned into their country giving more praise to the manhood than to the good manner and nurture of Scotland ’ . |
| 7 | In one sense the educational approach is the polar opposite of the medical one , in directing attention to the possibilities of improvement and change , rather than to the physiological account of permanent impairment . |
| 8 | The opposite will also apply of course , and labour only sub-contract rates are sometimes more related to market conditions than to the actual work content . |
| 9 | So nothing at Barnsley House is too grand … and the broader vistas are broken up by judicious planting of trees and shrubs.As for the flower borders … they owe more to the Victorian cottage than to the stately home : |
| 10 | It 's much easier to get through to the other side of the world than to the other side of London , and the lines are much clearer too . |
| 11 | Gaitskell ( now dominating Labour 's economic policy and still smarting from the defeat over Clow ) cut the allocations to electricity more than to the other fuel industries ( which the planners felt could meet energy demand at less capital cost ) . |
| 12 | Soon a scrum developed which bore a greater resemblance to that other American game than to the former game of Redcoat rounders being played below , and Denis had to pile in beside his uncle to the great detriment of his new coat and the loss of one trilby . |
| 13 | To remove a president from office is comparable to removing a monarch , impeachment is closer to regicide than to the mere sacking of a prime minister . |
| 14 | The measure allows such companies in those years to apply their mineral depletion allowances to 50% of the value of the finished products rather than to the lower value of raw clay alone . |
| 15 | For example , in calculating the amount at which stocks are to be stated , the test ’ lower of cost and net realisable value ’ should be applied to each individual material , rather than to the total stock-holding . |
| 16 | You will remember that a decision was taken a few years ago that we would lay our track to the standard British gauge of 4′ 8½″ rather than to the Irish gauge of 5′ 3″ . |
| 17 | Dobslaff 's intense canvases owe more to the abstract than to the figurative tradition . |
| 18 | Cosmopolitans were defined as showing higher levels of commitment to specialized skills and professional peer group judgement than to the employing organization . |
| 19 | However the example I have chosen of the stylistics of manner should make clear the potential difference between the two approaches , and at the same time illustrate the use of a more technically advanced linguistics than that drawn on by Spitzer , who like Auerbach belonged to the European philological tradition more than to the modern tradition of linguistics . |
| 20 | While this idea probably proves more challenging to the men participating than to the average feminist , this also indicates the experimental intention of the photographer who is seeking to provoke discussion rather than provide trenchant commentary . |
| 21 | 193 , 208 should be construed as referring to the absence of specific Community legislation in that field rather than to the complete exclusion of E.E.C . |
| 22 | Analysts said that the fall was due to expanded market listings rather than to the Shenzhen riot . |
| 23 | As Bateson ( 1973 ) argues , the psychological frame appropriate in discussing play or games is more akin to a picture frame than to the logical frame of a mathematical set : what is outside the picture frame is irrelevant and one can only make judgements of comparison and contrast on matters within the frame . |
| 24 | In other words , most translators prefer to give priority to the syntactic principles of the target language rather than to the communicative structure of the source text . |
| 25 | None of them would have any formal local attachment other than to the large constituency as a whole . |
| 26 | Jews were supposedly a nation within a nation who owed allegiance to an international community rather than to the British State . |
| 27 | This rate was considerably closer to the discount rate being used in private investment decisions than to the after-tax interest rate faced by households . |
| 28 | Taken together , all these data suggest that ASFV RNA polymerase could be more similar to the eukaryotic RNA polymerase II than to the poxviral enzyme , both in subunit composition and in the amino acid sequences of the individual subunits . |
| 29 | I said that Wittgenstein paid more attention to the negative side of his teaching , his attack on the experiential explanation of the meaning of pain-language in terms of feelings , than to the positive side , his own explanation in terms of ‘ It hurts ’ replacing moaning . |
| 30 | The success of complex carbohydrate containing ORS in clinical studies may be more closely related therefore to their very low osmolality relative to standard hypertonic monomer ORS than to the kinetic advantage factor or the increased substrate availability for glucose/sodium cotransport . |