Example sentences of "[noun sg] than to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Channel Islands are physically much closer to the French coast than to the English and the island breeds have a certain affinity with the breeds of Brittany and Normandy . |
| 2 | Jill Neville was , and is , a novelist , whose arrival in Britain had been part of an earlier 1960s Australian wave , more tied to bohemianism than to the music and the scene that sucked in Australians in the mid 1960s . |
| 3 | For most of the nineteenth century officials paid more attention to the judiciary than to the police , but in the twentieth century policy shifted and the police became central to colonial efforts at crime control . |
| 4 | The owner of the foot may suffer just as much pain but is likely to be far more forgiving to the clumsy perpetrator than to the sadistic one . |
| 5 | More are likely to be ill informed , to take little interest in politics , and perhaps to give rather less thought to the casting of a vote than to the marking of a pools coupon . |
| 6 | Some have been initially successful and then suffered a relapse , suggesting that at least some of the cases owed their success more to the Hawthorne effect than to a deeper understanding of people . |
| 7 | The election of Keir Hardie in 1892 owed more to historical contingency than to a heightened class consciousness among the electorate . |
| 8 | Cosmopolitans were defined as showing higher levels of commitment to specialized skills and professional peer group judgement than to the employing organization . |
| 9 | Even the English paid grudging tribute to this ; those who accompanied Margaret Tudor north in 1503 , for her marriage to Mary 's grandfather , James IV , were less than gracious about the elaborate and highly expensive entertainment provided by the king , but their contempt was mitigated , for they ‘ returned into their country giving more praise to the manhood than to the good manner and nurture of Scotland ’ . |
| 10 | The atmosphere was casually chaotic , far more akin to an American university than to a French laboratory , but the secretaries were unmistakably French . |
| 11 | She suggests that women 's distinctive experience leads them to form a moral sensibility that is closer to aesthetic response than to the legalism implicit in much principle-based morality . |
| 12 | It was a view which in essence called for a confederal or intergovernmental mould , rather closer perhaps to the British stand than to the vision of Monnet or Spaak . |
| 13 | So nothing at Barnsley House is too grand … and the broader vistas are broken up by judicious planting of trees and shrubs.As for the flower borders … they owe more to the Victorian cottage than to the stately home : |
| 14 | This perspective is closer to that of the Newbolt Committee than to the guiding impulses of inter-war English studies . |
| 15 | In the absence of CRP , all polymerases bind better to the lac fragment than to the gal fragment ( Fig. 1 , lanes 7 and 9 ) ; in the presence of CRP , with the truncated polymerases , a better binding at gal is observed ( Fig. 1 , lane 10 ) consistent with the absence of cooperativity found at the lac promoter . |
| 16 | In fact , it appears to have been due less to a plot than to a calculation that she could not win in a second ballot . |
| 17 | To talk of policy in matters of care except in the context of available resources and timescales for action owes more to theology than to the purposeful delivery of a caring service . |
| 18 | Although more tension may be applied to the lower posterior wall of the reservoir than to the anterior wall during construction , one would expect to show greater differences in scores for these sites in relatively recently constructed reservoirs compared with those that had been in situ for several years , and the pathological changes would also be expected to be more like those of mucosal ischaemia . |
| 19 | Similarly we give more weight to an informed moral judge than to an uninformed one : more weight to the moral opinions of someone capable of extensive reflection and commitment than to a person incapable of concentration and careless about self-contradiction . |
| 20 | Obviously , if one particular question is compulsory and has for example a weighting of 1½ then you must allocate 50 per cent more time to this question than to the others . |
| 21 | There is little social provision for single-parent families and , indeed , government policy is much more favourable to the widowed parent than to the divorced parent , even if their situations are very similar . |
| 22 | Edwards acknowledges the importance of code switching in the community under study : Close examination of British Black speech suggests that the situation is closer to that of a bilingual community than to the post-Creole continuum which operates in the Caribbean . |
| 23 | And if a work as trite , foolish and offensive to women as Now , Voyager should , after 40 years , remain as watchable today as on its initial release , when equally feeble plays and novels from the same period have vanished into a limbo of neglect from which they can never be retrieved , it is a tribute less to the very questionable ‘ artistry ’ of its writer and director than to the enduring fascination of its leading actress . |
| 24 | The children 's loss but the fault lay more with the SCO 's insensitivity to a cultural difference than to a lack of religious awareness . |
| 25 | A similar item revealed less knowledge of terms relating to a circle than to a rectangle ( Table 4.12 ) . |
| 26 | Secondly , because a tax allowance reduces the total income on which a person pays tax , it has a greater value to a high-income person on a high marginal rate of tax than to a low-income one who may , if he or she pays no tax , not gain at all . |
| 27 | It could be argued that this is far more likely to occur to a self-regulatory body than to a statutory body . |
| 28 | This is usually due less to some brilliant inspiration of the moment than to a skilful adaptation of previously made and polished plans and techniques , and is therefore a product of planning rather than an alternative to it . |
| 29 | The -ing form would have referred more to the mere experience of being alone at that moment than to the unexpectedness of finding himself alone . |
| 30 | She is less sensitive to the frequency or pitch of the sound than to the timing of the pulses of sound and the variations in their loudness . |