Example sentences of "than a [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year has been good for programme sales , particularly overseas where sales increased more than a half to £18.8m . |
| 2 | This discovery of Frank 's atheism was more than a perturbation to Michael . |
| 3 | This remake of Jackie Mittoo 's Studio One organ classic is typical of current Taxi fare : subtle , gently rocking , and offering more than a nod to rocksteady , right down to the drum fills probably sampled from the original version . |
| 4 | It was now quite clear that barrage balloons were much more a hindrance than a help to London . |
| 5 | Last year in particular , it saw the introduction of TV into Fiji as an opportunity to redouble its efforts to ensure that the medium is a positive influence in the country , rather than a threat to culture and moral standards . |
| 6 | Last year in particular , it saw the introduction of TV into Fiji as an opportunity to redouble its efforts to ensure that the medium is a positive influence in the country , rather than a threat to culture and moral standards . |
| 7 | Government bonds with less than a year to maturity . |
| 8 | For all the earthy language and talk of struggles to come , it sounded more like community singing in a bomb-shelter than a call to arms . |
| 9 | Short-term pain for long-term gain — or in his words , ‘ this is nothing less than a call to arms , to restore the vitality of the American dream ’ . |
| 10 | This is nothing less than a call to arms to restore the vitality of the American dream , ’ he said . |
| 11 | This is the disastrous way in which they have trivialized the rich complexity of black life by reducing it to nothing more than a response to racism . |
| 12 | Rather than a follow-up to Nevermind , it is a prequel which shows how the band got to their current position where rock critics and industry moguls divide music into two categories : pre-Nirvana and post-Nirvana . |
| 13 | Crime is much more than a statistic to Rosemary Hunt . |
| 14 | So sex education becomes crucially important , but while the 1986 Education Act and Section 28 remain in place , sex education in Britain will consist of little more than a hymn to family life , largely devoid of any education about sex . |
| 15 | As the structure is not a single crystal , the sizes found vary from somewhat greater than a crystallite to diameters of a few millimetres . |
| 16 | Luyt met Herbert , whom he remembered as more like a friend than a father to John . |
| 17 | Rather than a boost to consumption , we need some redistribution of wealth from the employed to the creation of jobs for the unemployed . |
| 18 | In my view Labour 's stunning defeat requires of it much more than a commitment to PR and a pre-electoral arrangement with the Liberal Democrats . |
| 19 | Since queen and chamberlain had to work closely together ex officio , Vivian 's promotion looks more like a counterweight than a complement to Adalard 's . |
| 20 | Mr Saegusa calls the finished piece ‘ an ode to Mozart from the Orient , ’ explaining that the new music is his own , rather than a supplement to Mozart 's . |
| 21 | Incredible as it sounds a weekend package with Cresta can cost you less than a flight to Paris in the normal way . |