Example sentences of "to than " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did dope all afternoon , spaced out to Nina Simone and Marvin Gaye — why was there no one better to wank to than Marvin Gaye ? — and decided : OK , LADY , IF WE 'RE WORKING , LET'S WORK ! |
| 2 | Some people found the sing-song voice a barrier , and found the beginning and the middle easier to listen to than the end . |
| 3 | She 's better to talk to than write to , if you know what I mean . |
| 4 | Some diets are easier to stick to than others ; some give better results than others . |
| 5 | This means that at a time of crisis , such as death , there are fewer people to turn to than there used to be when it was the norm to live much nearer to kinfolk . |
| 6 | Karelius talked mainly with Moreau , reflecting on the irony that he so often found the French easier to talk to than Austrians . |
| 7 | It is possible that the silent witness of a man 's life was more in accordance with the tradition of meditation and contemplation that Gandhi was accustomed to than the more vocal and prophetic approach of the Christian tradition . |
| 8 | You 're no more worth listening to than any bored , spoiled young woman , whining because the routine of married life has gone stale on you . |
| 9 | Some regions are more popular to move to than others . |
| 10 | DRDA application programming interfaces are more complex to write to than SAG APIs , he says . |
| 11 | DRDA application programming interfaces are more complex to write to than the SQL Access Group interfaces , he says . |
| 12 | When things go wrong , they will want more to turn to than a toll-free telephone help-line . |
| 13 | According to Than Tun there were 100000 present at the open sessions , while even the Governor 's Secretary admitted that numbers were ‘ some 20 — 30000 ’ . |
| 14 | Homophonic real words ( e.g. rain , reign ) , however , take longer to be responded to than non-homophonic ( real ) words in the RVF but not in the LVF ( Barry , 1981 ) . |
| 15 | He hit me in the face with the gun ; an inefficient , glancing blow with more chaotic anger than directed malice behind it ; I fell down , correspondingly , more because I felt I ought to than because I was actually knocked out . |
| 16 | It is obviously advantageous for an animal to receive more detailed information about where it is going to than about where it has come from , and it is therefore not surprising that as well as the mouth at the front end of the planaria there is a concentration of sense organs , such as light-sensitive eyepits , and to process the information arriving from these sense organs there is a group of ganglia concentrated in the head — forming at last the forerunners of real brains . |
| 17 | In comparison with accountants , bank managers , NHS doctors and estate agents , they were found to be as easy to talk to as bank managers and easier to talk to than all the others bar NHS doctors , to be easier to understand than accountants and estate agents , to be more efficient than accountants and estate agents , to be more hardworking than accountants , bank managers and estate agents , to be as dependable as bank managers and more dependable than accountants and estate agents , to be as up-to-date as accountants and more up-to-date than estate agents . |
| 18 | ‘ People are easier to talk to than bricks and mortar ! |
| 19 | When children from Juniper Primary School in Edinburgh needed information to complete a special project on building , who better for the school to turn to than Wimpey . |
| 20 | Alternatively or additionally subjects may genuinely feel that there is greater subjective difference within the few films they have given high ratings to than within the many they have given lower ratings to and have been at least partially successful in avoiding what Poulton ( 1989 ) terms equal frequency biases . |
| 21 | ‘ Just that sometimes the truth is far harder to admit to than lies . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You thought I should write — after what you said ! ’ she exclaimed , while her heartbeats dully settled , for clearly he was more concerned with where the devil she had got to than with her in particular . |
| 23 | They cost up to than £30 in the shops . |
| 24 | They cost up to than £30 in the shops . |
| 25 | But if this is what the club resorts to than good riddance to them . |
| 26 | ‘ There is no better place to come to than Feethams . |
| 27 | This year might represent a compromise with regard to the those two opposition positions which again I would suggest are something that perhaps owes more to than it does to actual political affiliation . |