Example sentences of "[subord] to the [adj] [noun] " 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 whole process only takes a few minutes , although to the distraught owners it can seem like hours . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was a situation whose benefits went largely to the richer tenant-farmers and the landowners rather than to the ordinary yeoman or labourer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Strictly speaking , Hesiod refers to a golden race rather than to the golden age of later writers . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Indeed , some differentiation will derive directly from the stage children have reached at school : for example , the ‘ adult needs ’ view is more relevant to the later years of compulsory schooling than to the primary years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At the present time the English tend to play down the significance of affinal relationships but , even so , the statement " she has made a good marriage " is more likely to refer to the social and financial standing of the husband 's immediate kin than to the personal qualities of the husband himself . |
| 11 | The papacy 's reputation for venality may be more closely related to the difficulties of collecting what was due to it than to the actual amounts of money coming in . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | Because they appear reasonably proficient , the instructors tend to give less practice to them than to the other students . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But Scorsese 's film owes more to Luis Bunuel 's quizzical The Milky Way than to the lavish Hollywood epics of the past . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If lesion A affects function X but not function Y while lesion B affects function Y but not function N , it is reasonable to assume that the effects observed are specific to the loci of lesions A and B rather than to the general effects of brain damage . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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″ . |
| 24 | We should not forget , however , that Berkeley 's own commitments are to God rather than to the predetermined demands of some idealized empiricism . |
| 25 | Dobslaff 's intense canvases owe more to the abstract than to the figurative tradition . |
| 26 | However , most companies saw this growth related to factors such as increasing demand rather than to the enterprise-zone incentives themselves . |
| 27 | Cosmopolitans were defined as showing higher levels of commitment to specialized skills and professional peer group judgement than to the employing organization . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Since the earlier study , the team 's experience with the SSM had increased considerably , and any difficulties encountered at this stage were related more to the use of the FAOR package as an integrated whole than to the individual components themselves . |
| 30 | The figures for the London Boroughs present several problems of comparison : the estimates for both education and socio-economic deprivation refer to the entire Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) , rather than to the individual Boroughs ; the estimates based on population density and for transport and recreation redistribution should be the larger of the two figures presented for comparative purposes , in order to include the provisions for the Metropolitan Police ; finally , where relevant , we have added average expenditure assessments for the Greater London Council ( GLC ) to each London Borough , in order to obtain total figures . |