Example sentences of "than they [be] to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 B , b , This classification is one of several suggesting that one or other of the fossil groups are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than they are to other agnathans .
2 And was Simone de Beauvoir ( 1972 ) justified in believing that , because women ‘ live dispersed among the males , attached through residence , housework , economic condition , and social standing to certain men — fathers or husbands — more firmly than they are to other women ’ , they can have no common identity or history ?
3 While a radical feminist like Millett can argue that ‘ male and female are really two cultures , and their life experiences are utterly different ’ , Marxist feminists would argue that the life experiences of middle-class women are much closer to those of middle-class men than they are to those of working-class women .
4 Certainly , among extreme Ulster unionists we continue to find a discourse of antiCatholicism which employs scriptural apocalyptic images which one suspects would be more readily comprehensible to late sixteenth- or seventeenth-century audiences than they are to most twentieth-century ones .
5 She also acknowledges the effect of code-switching on the Patois index : " In practice , because Patois was usually used in conjunction with English as a part of code-switching behaviour , most scores were considerably nearer to 100 than they were to 0 " ( p.79 ) .
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