Example sentences of "than [art] [noun] 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 | If the free trade discussions were pushed too hard , Spaak and others feared that they might prove more attractive than the EEC to many interests . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He wore the same sombre clothes as Lever , a wine red pau that made them seem more like clerks than the heirs to great Companies . |
| 6 | Students of communications , instrumentation , special applications and ( marginally ) computing were more likely than the rest to be seeking work . |
| 7 | We had a good flight home with excellent connection times , which made it less exhausting than the journey to Jo'burg . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ] . |
| 12 | The girl in black was nineteen , five years older than the boy to whom she was bringing her petition . |
| 13 | Dubious though Edward 's claims in Scotland may have been , they were more soundly based than the claims to overlordship made by Boniface . |
| 14 | Considerably more oligonucleotides than the DNA to be analysed are provided deliberately . |
| 15 | At the RS/6000 launch , Filip said that the workstation business was definitely profitable in the fourth quarter of 1992 , and in the current quarter has been growing faster than the 30% to 35% achieved for all of 1992 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You are not authorised to have access to any other areas of the Reserve other than the route to and from the hide . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Supposition abounds not least because the custom has been shown to be much older than the legend to which its origin is attributed . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In both cases the proportion is closer to the optimal proportion than the output to the optimal output . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ( 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 . ) |
| 29 | Not only must the temperature be more extreme than the Sun to be practical , but the fuel is different . |
| 30 | There was no guidance on provision other than the commitments to improving the visual environment and offering a broad curriculum and flexible teaching . |