Example sentences of "to [det] than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smoke is probably unburnt fuel If the carb is a little bit worn it will do this The Solex carb is more prone to this than the later Zenith It may also be slight oil burning which is also very common as the engine starts and only happens for a few seconds This is a ‘ feature ’ of Land Rovers and is not really cause for concern |
| 2 | He noted that the government commission which he had established to investigate the Parys affair had paid more attention to this than the commission later appointed at Walesa 's request [ see p. 38881 ] . |
| 3 | He wrote a book expounding 1 Corinthians 7 to imply that the apostle was not really defending marriage , since his arguments fatally conceded that it was not the most perfect state for the believer , and no true believer could aspire to less than the perfection to which God called . |
| 4 | It seems churlish to denigrate a show that offers as much humour and sharp observation as this one , but it is impossible to escape the conclusion that Reflected Glory finally adds up to less than the sum of its parts . |
| 5 | Worse , they and the new land against which loans were secured declined in value in some cases to less than the amount borrowed , forcing lenders to foreclose . |
| 6 | nothing in this Condition shall limit the liability of the Carrier to less than the sum of £10 ; |
| 7 | Similarly , at various times nationalized industries have been instructed to pursue social objectives or to help implement incomes policy by holding their price increases to less than the general inflation rate . |
| 8 | It will be recalled that Section 37 of the Finance Act , 1969 provided for the ascertainment for the purposes of estate duty of the ‘ slice ’ of the property in which the interest of ; beneficiary who was entitled to less than the whole of the in come or who had a joint interest in property which was no income-producing subsisted . |
| 9 | That 's why I 'm submitting a budget that holds the growth in spending to less than the rate of inflation . |
| 10 | The other three preconditions , according to FMCG , are : that the acquiring bank has a proven record of controlling its non-interest expenses ( that is , the costs of computer systems , branches , staff and so forth ) ; that the acquiring bank will be getting a mix of businesses , which , combined sensibly with their own , add up to more than the sum of the parts ; and that the two banks are physically close together . |
| 11 | Without that , no talks will ever amount to more than the briefest of encounters . |
| 12 | Yet Gloria herself never seemed to hold on to more than the bare essentials that they had in their two paper carriers . |
| 13 | No nation quite so much as the British likes its art to tell a story ( witness the pictures of Victorian England ) and no nation went overboard quite like the British to buy the Vung Tau cargo ; but with French , German , Italian , Dutch and Taiwanese buyers sharing out these decorations of the age of William and Mary , we must assume that the ‘ shipwreck factor ’ in these prices appeals to more than the nation which owned the Titanic and whose schoolboys read Mr Midshipman Easy and Moby Dick . |
| 14 | The language had to be one accessible to more than the ruling elite , so it became one or other dialect of the vernacular . |
| 15 | I feel assured , however , no one regrets the inconvenience and annoyance our supporters were subjected to more than the Coventry executive … |
| 16 | The most important thing to know about them is that they work synergistically with minerals : that is they enhance each other , adding up to more than the individual sum of their parts . |
| 17 | If your parent has savings invested with a local authority , from which tax is deducted at the basic rate , she can only get some of this tax back if the tax , together with any other tax that is paid ( e.g. under Pay As Your Earn ) , comes to more than the proper tax on her total income . |
| 18 | Just as the new conceptual artists have more passion than they were at first credited with , so many of the new painters amount to more than the sum of their supposed influences . |
| 19 | This sum is equivalent to about one third of the Government grant to Radio Tanzania for the same period , and to more than the entire sum allocated to the development of information and broadcasting services in the first Five Year plan . |
| 20 | The full basic pension for a man or woman ( April 1992/93 ) is £54.15 a week , £86.70 for a married couple ( unless your spouse is entitled to more than the £32.55 spouse 's addition on his/her own contributions , in which case you will receive more ) . |
| 21 | However the executive staff could receive changed instructions from the Council acting collectively , which amounts to more than the member States acting collectively through their delegates . |
| 22 | But just let the poor little woman open her legs to more than the statutory one , and she 's cheap , a woman of easy virtue , a social outcast . |
| 23 | In about 13% of schools , the money contributed by parents amounts to more than the schools ' official funding from their LEAs . |
| 24 | For most of this period , transfers to the state enterprises amounted to more than the total public deficit ( Gimeno 1984 : 88–92 ) . |