Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ to grant equitable relief to the defendants in respect of the son 's acts alone without [ the plaintiff 's ] authority or knowledge , is to go further than any decided case has yet gone . |
| 2 | United Parcel Service is to invest more than £15,000 in Langholm this year , most of it in the sevens , which will be played on 1 May ( 2pm ) . |
| 3 | Without such funding the best way to process general language is to acquire rather than develop a parser ( Patten , 1992 ) . |
| 4 | When the effect of an additional task is to disrupt rather than facilitate performance then the two tasks are said to compete for the same " functional space " within the hemispheres . |
| 5 | LUXURY car-makers Mercedes-Benz AG is to lose more than 10,500 workers by the end of the year , bosses announced yesterday . |
| 6 | To ‘ add in ’ gender as a specific category with a compelling need to be addressed is to increase rather than decrease the teacher 's predicament . |
| 7 | The purpose of course is to obtain more than 50 per cent , when the offer becomes ‘ unconditional as to acceptances ’ . |
| 8 | But all that is to characterise rather than to explain , and the lofty prestige of universities in the post-war world remains a phenomenon that has still to be convincingly analysed . |
| 9 | The Secretary of State may change the distributing bodies and alter the percentages for the five categories , but none is to receive less than 5% . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , those participating in the programme have a common intellectual goal in that their primary concern is to understand rather than to develop . |
| 11 | The engineering firm , Lucas , is to shed more than two thousand jobs . |
| 12 | Another is to have more than one representative for each group or constituency , the representatives being mandated as nearly as possible in proportion to the distribution of opinion among the represented . |
| 13 | On the other hand most research materials are retained in stock indefinitely , so that for any work where the condition has seriously deteriorated the tendency is to bind rather than to discard . |
| 14 | There has been no strike in agriculture since 1923 and the instinct of the farm worker is to shun rather than seek the kind of publicity which would be required to engender public support for his cause . |
| 15 | You can alter the behaviour of a power plant by throwing a switch ; it is true that to move a switch is to move more than one molecule , but there is nevertheless an amplification of a small signal into a large effect . |
| 16 | The idea is to move faster than London will ever dream we could . |
| 17 | The Globex system , as it became known , is to complement rather than replace the open outcry system . |
| 18 | A useful guideline is to act rather than talk in times of conflict . |
| 19 | Yorkshire Water is to spend more than £300m on improvements to supplies , treatment works , mains and sewers in the coming financial year , equivalent to £180 per household . |
| 20 | The SAC 's grant to the Festival Fringe is to rise less than 2 per cent to £24,000 . |