Example sentences of "to [noun] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly because those who served in garrisons had to be ready to serve in the field when required ( for a castle acted as a base where soldiers could remain when not in the field , and from which they could control the countryside around by mounted raids within a radius of , say , a dozen miles ) , partly because of an increasing difficulty in securing active support from the nobility and gentry for the war in France , English armies at the end of the war sometimes included a greater ratio of archers to men-at-arms than ever before , sometimes 7:1 or even 10:1 , rather than the more usual 3:1 under Henry V and the parity of archers to men-at-arms normally found in the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 2 | Corning 's high-quality , high-priced pots and pans are more vulnerable to recession than more humble vessels . |
| 3 | ‘ There is more to fishing than just to fish ’ and how right he was . |
| 4 | Staff accepted lower wages because Virgin seemed to be a more agreeable place to work than anywhere else in the record industry . |
| 5 | The first and major thrust of the Act is the clause enabling council tenants to purchase their dwelling at a huge discount — not a new trend of either Labour or Conservative housing policy , but certainly it represent a greater encouragement to owner-occupation than ever before . |
| 6 | In terms of bed numbers it has substantially more relative to population than either London or New York , but like them has been closing short stay beds steadily since the mid-1970s . |
| 7 | Rather more interesting , however , to Julia than either Ian 's or Canon Wheeler 's vision for the Church was the very puzzling question of why , when he invariably summoned his subordinates to come to him by phone , Wheeler had today put himself to the trouble of walking up a back staircase to the servants ' quarters ? |
| 8 | The magnetopause is closest to Jupiter on the sunward side but never lies closer to Jupiter than about twice the distance of the orbit of the outermost Galilean satellite . |
| 9 | Now are n't they pretty Bobby , it 's so much nicer to take to people than maybe chocolates or cake . |
| 10 | This has become especially the case in the ‘ new ’ congress of the 1980s , where congressmen and senators have become even more individualistic and less amenable to control than before . |
| 11 | There 's more to Medau than just attending your local weekly class ! |
| 12 | But the cracks show that it is far less resistant to corrosion than previously thought . |
| 13 | ‘ I think you do have a totally different approach to life than before . |
| 14 | From watching Isobel and her husband he had discovered that there was much more to sex than just taking a girl to bed or being uneasily married to a frigid , grasping woman . |
| 15 | Also , I bet Gazza would rather go to Newcastle than anywhere else so I would n't rule them out . |
| 16 | More to Madness than just loony tunes |
| 17 | Four or five ‘ B ’ and U21 matches a season plus training weekends at full , ‘ B ’ , development and U21 levels mean a bigger commitment to Wales than ever — by baleful coincidence , at the very moment the commitment to clubs has never been bigger . |
| 18 | ‘ More criminals are going to prison than ever before , and the unit of resource has been significantly reduced . ’ |
| 19 | Physically he had been just one millimetre closer to Doreen than ever before , but emotionally he had crossed a frontier . |
| 20 | Yet there was more to Hastings than just kicking penalties . |