Example sentences of "than [art] [noun sg] to " 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 | It is n't wrong to feel angry , but if you let it out in ways like this , the distress will increase for both of you , and you risk losing more than the chance to be a mother . |
| 3 | She thought again what a point of defence the tower was , commanding the countryside , and then she saw that there was a back road leading away from the tower , narrower , bumpier even than the drive to the front door , which snaked quickly down the hill and out of sight . |
| 4 | Students of communications , instrumentation , special applications and ( marginally ) computing were more likely than the rest to be seeking work . |
| 5 | We had a good flight home with excellent connection times , which made it less exhausting than the journey to Jo'burg . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At Riverside Studios during the interval of a play in Russian , I was chatting about anything other than the play to the Guardian 's critic , Michael Billington , when Mark Dignam approached Billington and , most courteously and with a touch of a bow , said : ‘ Mr Billington , I look forward to reading you tomorrow and seeing what I think of the play . ’ |
| 8 | Some progress has been made in this area , since the input to such systems is typically simpler than the text to be processed in MT or IR systems , and the interactive nature of the application allows the system to resolve certain ambiguities by asking the user to rephrase the question . |
| 9 | The swing of 24.7 per cent to the Liberal Democrats was larger even than that at Eastbourne in October 1990 [ see p. 37784 ] , or than the swing to Labour at Mid-Staffordshire in March of that year [ see pp. 37328-29 ] . |
| 10 | The girl in black was nineteen , five years older than the boy to whom she was bringing her petition . |
| 11 | Considerably more oligonucleotides than the DNA to be analysed are provided deliberately . |
| 12 | Divisive though the national guard proposals might be , the Morning Chronicle took them up , and , being friendlier than the Globe to the radicals , did so with less of a repressive , middle-class twist . |
| 13 | You are not authorised to have access to any other areas of the Reserve other than the route to and from the hide . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In this document , Mosley had argued for a managed currency rather than the return to the gold standard at pre-war parity as the basis of economic policy , for nationalization of the banks , the establishment of consumer credits to supplement working-class purchasing power , the development of an Economic Council to plan production , and the setting up of a mechanism to check that money supply was equated to production potential . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In view of the consternation which Khrushchev 's policies aroused in the Party itself , his eventual deposition is less striking than the degree to which he succeeded in imposing his will on a reluctant leadership . |
| 18 | The degree to which any particular development is exclusively attributable to the project remains a moot point , but in our view this is less important than the degree to which the project complemented and extended existing and coincidental developments , and in this respect the project has been most successful . |
| 19 | Supposition abounds not least because the custom has been shown to be much older than the legend to which its origin is attributed . |
| 20 | Taking steps to ensure that Queen Victoria was informed of Leopold 's candidature while ignoring Napoleon III was in itself an insult , for France was certainly more directly concerned in the matter than England and the Emperor had better need than the Queen to be told directly . |
| 21 | There is some evidence that in searches containing a single " of " ( like " objectives of common agricultural policy " ) the portion to the left of the preposition should be weighted somewhat lower than the portion to the right . |
| 22 | In both cases the proportion is closer to the optimal proportion than the output to the optimal output . |
| 23 | The first is a reason at a more particular and factual level and is correspondingly more sensitive than the other to changes in hypotheses about the emergence of human beings . |
| 24 | ( None is more rock-like than the attitude to men in ballet ; several of the boys in the Shepherd 's Bush class have left because of teasing . ) |
| 25 | Not only must the temperature be more extreme than the Sun to be practical , but the fuel is different . |
| 26 | SERC funded students in both specialist and conversion courses were more likely than the average to be continuing their studies . |
| 27 | According to the information collected to date , students in the two largest subject areas , computing and micro-electronics , were more likely than the average to be in employment . |
| 28 | However , on the basis of Table 7.5 , and recognising some of the very small numbers involved , research students in the following areas were less likely than the average to be seeking employment : |
| 29 | A doctor of medicine is in the same social class as a company director but is more likely than the director to be accorded some degree of deference by the local community . |
| 30 | It supplied him with nothing less than the key to a fresh overall grasp of theology which was able to cope with the most serious challenges proffered in the previous century . |