Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the Bioscope 's view that for the person ‘ in search of different phases of human nature there is no better place to find objects of study than to visit a bioscope show ’ . |
| 2 | Broadly speaking , it is easier to obtain funding for explanatory research that seems to provide guidance to policy-makers than for purely academic research , and for research that is statistically based than for research that is more qualitative in its approach . |
| 3 | It seems that people find it easier to find fault with ideas than to build them up into something better . |
| 4 | Economists are more concerned to find similarities among firms than to explain the differences . |
| 5 | There 's a lot more to smooth transitions between programmes than you might realise and as long as the team here stays on the ball , you 'll probably continue not to notice they 're there . |
| 6 | Patients manifesting cow 's milk allergy with skin symptoms reacted to lower volumes of milk than those with gastrointestinal symptoms ( Table I ) . |
| 7 | There is no better way to help people in need than through supporting Care . |
| 8 | There is no better way to help people in need than through supporting Care . |
| 9 | Our brains are no better equipped to handle extremes of complexity than extremes of size and the other difficult extremes of physics . |
| 10 | would have thought that graduates find it more difficult to impart knowledge to people than anybody else . |
| 11 | But I personally think it 's more universal to tune guitars to chords than it is to anything else . ’ |
| 12 | While I support fully the RSPCA campaign and their use of ‘ shock ’ tactics , I feel that the horrifying sight of a heap of dead dogs is no more likely to stir people to action than the sight of a pile of dead cows will turn us all into vegetarians . |
| 13 | So if you are pressed for time it is better during your first year in a language area to give more time to direct contact with people than to spend hours at your desk typing . |
| 14 | With all the rain emptying itself over the Feyenoord Stadium it was hard to put last night 's match in the context of a World Cup which is more likely to present problems of heat than waterproofing . |
| 15 | His explanation for the coming of the prison at that time is that this was ‘ the moment when it became understood that it was more efficient and profitable in terms of the economy of power to place people under surveillance than to subject them to some exemplary penalty ’ ( Foucault , 1990 : 39 ) . |
| 16 | The idea is that it 's a lot quicker for the processor to get information from RAM than from the hard disk . |
| 17 | One negative comment : No-one greeting people at door , no explanation of layout of house , better to have meal at end than beginning , start too early . |
| 18 | Any decent reform of this nonsense has to start with a firm recognition that it is better to take money from taxpayers than from consumers . |
| 19 | A Scottish Agricultural College vet , Phil Scott , appealed to farmers to consider disease prevention rather than cures , saying that it was much cheaper to spend money on vaccines than have to spend perhaps £30 on treating a single calf which in any event was unlikely to match the performance of those animals which had been vaccinated . |
| 20 | Annexation showed that the English government had much more power to take action outside Europe than it had possessed in the first half of the century . |
| 21 | Laziness is a greater cause of failure to make money in shares than bad luck . |
| 22 | Peter Ashman , legal secretary of Justice , said : ‘ The profession is more willing to admit miscarriages of justice than it once was . |
| 23 | It is far easier to blame equipment for failure than oneself . |
| 24 | Conversely , Ninagawa had trouble applying the combination of eastern and western styles to a traditional Japanese piece : ‘ It is much more difficult to bring realism into stylization than the other way round . |
| 25 | Planning a path on paper before you build gives an idea of the shapes and patterns you can create with the materials available to you — and it 's easier to correct mistakes on paper than on the real thing ! |