Example sentences of "than [art] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the gastrin release in response to wine was diminished compared with controls it was still higher than the response to ethanol . |
| 2 | When we finally left the school the return journey home was even worse than the journey to school with pupils being cheeky when you told them to sit down and face the front . |
| 3 | Dubious though Edward 's claims in Scotland may have been , they were more soundly based than the claims to overlordship made by Boniface . |
| 4 | The ‘ domino effect ’ was only partly successful , however , and this was very substantially responsible for both the course of the dispute and the lack of any final outcome , other than the return to work in March , 1985 . |
| 5 | In the longer term the failure of the National Coalition , and the Conservative and Labour governments in the 1920s , to create the ‘ home fit for heroes ’ , turned some towards more radical solutions for Britain 's problems than the return to normalcy and safety-first politics of what Mosley was to call the old gangs of British politics . |
| 6 | In this article there was a degree of modification of his views on ‘ war communism ’ , since he was arguing in it that it was an emergency policy , rather than the high-road to socialism . |
| 7 | Other than the commitment to democracy . |
| 8 | To many people , talk of greater denominational unity was nothing more than the application to religion of current political nostrums like collectivism or , worse , ‘ socialism ’ . |
| 9 | With local elections looming in the near future , Communist leaders in Warsaw are already fearing another serious loss , possibly even more humiliating than the loss to Solidarity in national elections last June . |
| 10 | Knowledge embodied in specific products is often too use-specific to spill over , development costs are often extremely large relative to the costs of basic research , and competitive feedback from output markets to research decisions is much weaker than the feedback to development decisions ( not least because it is frequently unclear which output markets a piece of new information is likely to affect ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Government bonds with less than a year to maturity . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 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 1583 the Woodcocks were back ‘ with divers ... desperate and lewde persons ’ who ‘ in riotous manner dug ... one myghty diche more like in truthe a defence to have kepte owte some forren enemyes than an inclosure to keepe in cattell ’ . |
| 19 | It may be concluded from this that prey size can be used as no more than an approximation to predator type , and size spectra are certainly not predator-specific . |
| 20 | It should n't take more than an hour to type up . |
| 21 | A great deal of it amounted to little more than an adjunct to farming , typically by smallholders plying a trade on the side . |
| 22 | If the convention as anti-parliament is understood as assuming that the people 's wishes must prevail , that the convention better expressed those wishes than parliament and therefore in any contest between the two popular loyalty should be to the convention , as abolitionists employed it in the 1830s , it was closer to a focus for intensifying ‘ pressure from without ’ than an alternative to parliament . |
| 23 | Seeing in black life nothing more than an answer to racism means moving on to the ideological circuit which makes us visible in two complementary roles — the problem and the victim . |
| 24 | He went on to deny that they had amy political ends other than an end to discrimination : ‘ It has been said against this movement that its purpose is to unite Ireland and to unite the working class … |
| 25 | Integrating primary care into the contracting framework of the health service will have advantages for patients , doctors , and managers but general practitioners could see it as a threat to independence rather than an end to isolation . |