Example sentences of "to something [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish to alter the low range gearing in the transfer box to something lower than is already fitted in my V8 109 and would appreciate a ‘ crawler ’ gear . |
| 2 | Spiritual art is ‘ only known by its personal power ’ ( Chardin , Velasquez ) , while Sacred Art is ‘ the most intense form of the spiritual ’ in which ‘ our humanity responds to something greater than itself yet intimately part of us ’ ( Goya ) . |
| 3 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 4 | Pity that it had n't extended to something better than this undersized diesel-driven power supply . |
| 5 | What Phyllis Bottome wants to do — what , in 1944 , she needs to do — is to shift the blame for Pound 's Fascism on to something other than the heedless impetuosity of Pound himself . |
| 6 | But I had a strong suspicion even then that he was drinking to something other than my health . |
| 7 | They have no more idea of the public 's response to something musical than the average man in the street . |
| 8 | Roth has left off with his mythologising fury — and his memoir lets us know that the benefits that come to the writer who tries , or even seems , to stick to the facts may amount to something more than those of hindsight . |
| 9 | ‘ The historical resistance of the expectations gap , ’ it says , ‘ points to something more than just an ‘ ignorance' ’ gap and suggests there exists scope for the profession to respond more actively to the views and demands of those relying on the audit function . ’ |
| 10 | The most radical Westerners , following a path very close to that of the Petrashevtsy , aspired to something more than liberalism and embraced socialism . |
| 11 | We can perhaps only guess at what exactly lay behind such incidents , although these kinds of details begin to add up to something more than a fringe resentment of the police by a marginal ‘ criminal element ’ . |