Example sentences of "than to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet what had happened — the rejection of an unsatisfactory piece of writing — seems somehow more appropriate to the traditional classroom than to its liberal counterpart . |
| 2 | A cash placing is one in which the subscription offer is made to investment clients of the purchaser 's merchant bank or broker rather than to its existing shareholders . |
| 3 | Its importance as a fore-runner was due less to its political ideas than to its military discipline and its administrative personnel , who were later to help organize the day-to-day running of the BUF . |
| 4 | At least she has her family for support and company , and losing some of her friends and social outlets might be less damaging to her than to her single sister . |
| 5 | As there was much greater divergence in growth levels between conurbations and rural sub-regions than between the 11 constituent regions of the UK , the statistical performance of the regions is better understood and predicted by reference to their respective mixtures of conurbation and rural sub-regions than to their industrial structure . |
| 6 | Both groups strongly identify with their professional bodies and tend to feel more allegiance to their profession than to their individual employer . |
| 7 | Writing from a similar perspective , Collins attributes the higher salaries of the more educated employees to the certification process rather than to their higher productivity , i.e. , the increasing tendency by employers to select and promote employees according to the education credentials they hold . |
| 8 | The downfall of Mr Perez and Mr Collor may in fact owe less to their corruption — real or imagined — than to their general unpopularity and especially that of their economic reforms . |
| 9 | The two girls were now paying much more attention to their new found friends than to their original escorts . |
| 10 | His eye measured these impressive heights coolly , relating them always to sea level rather than to their own grandeur , and correcting Boswell 's exultation over ‘ another mountain I called immense : Johnson : ‘ No ; it is no more than a considerable protuberance . ’ ’ |
| 11 | The assumption here is that if inheritance is a factor then adopted children should be more similar , in their criminality , to their biological than to their adopting parents . |
| 12 | The fact that so many do publish , as evidenced by the numbers of papers in the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists , or Geophysical Prospecting , indicates the close ties between their current work , and the need to advance their careers by publishing papers related to that work , rather than to their previous research . |
| 13 | The fact that so many do publish , as evidenced by the numbers of papers in the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists , or Geophysical Prospecting , indicates the close ties between their current work , and the need to advance their careers by publishing papers related to that work , rather than to their previous research . |
| 14 | The Communist Party now contains an extraordinary range of opinion , from old believers to reformers who are closer in outlook to middle-of-the-road democrats than to their hardline comrades . |
| 15 | That said , I have printed TrueType and Adobe Type Manager fonts with excellent results as well , and seemingly quicker than to my aging PostScript printer . |
| 16 | This once mighty state was now again becoming a major power in Europe , thanks less to its nominal ruler , Philip V , than to his prime minister , Cardinal Giulio Alberoni . |
| 17 | In addition he accepted an undertaking by the defendent not to reveal other than to his legal advisers the fact that he had made communications to FIMBRA and the Inland Revenue . |
| 18 | In some ways history has been kinder to Minkowski than to his older rival in the french Academy 's competition , the deceased Oxford professor , Henry John Stephen Smith . |
| 19 | The boy had been in his tutelage now for two and a half years , closer far to him than to his own Lancaster kin . |
| 20 | Northumberland had more use for him ; he was temperamentally closer to this coldly thinking man than to his own son . |
| 21 | As this suggests , the duke recognized a wider responsibility than to his own servants . |
| 22 | As this suggests , the duke recognized a wider responsibility than to his own servants . |
| 23 | Many of these prints have shifted subtly in colour or tonality , in ways more apparent to the lithographer 's camera than to our own eyes . |