Example sentences of "than [pron] [be] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clubmosses , which created most of the coal seams , are more closely related to ferns than they are to pine trees , and oil — from which most synthetics are obtained — is not derived from plants at all . |
| 2 | It appears to be easier to categorize users than it is to assign levels to books . |
| 3 | It 's more expensive to manufacture things here in Bolivia than it is to buy contraband . |
| 4 | But it is n't easy to be envied , any more than it is to feel envy . |
| 5 | It 's easier to prevent the escape of the internal noise which you create in your own home , and which is liable to annoy your neighbours , than it is to prevent noise entering your house from outside or from next door . |
| 6 | It 's less usual to enjambe stanzas than it is to enjambe lines and it creates this continuous flow . |
| 7 | Before when we had our other range they were all the same price , which was wrong really because it 's a lot easier to get lavender than it is to get rose . |
| 8 | So it 's , if you 're overtime is at the grade C level , or the workload is at the grade C level , then you 're bet it 's cheaper to get overtime done than it is to get temps . |
| 9 | Just as it is easier to blame witches , agents of the Devil , for male impotence , famine , drought , war , plague and so forth than it is to blame God whom , in spite of all evidence to the contrary , we insist on regarding as a benign and even moral being . |
| 10 | Later , however , he came to realize that it was more accurate for him to say Truth is God than it was to say God is Truth . |
| 11 | It failed because the French and the British were unhappy about supporting such a move and indeed the United Nations looked very likely er er to be more erm willing to condemn the United States than it was to condemn North Vietnam but the view of most countries in the world at that time was that North Viet that North and South Vietnam were part of the same country , that the Geneva accords in nineteen fifty four which called for unification should be upheld , and that the United States was interfering in , in a south east Asian country for no good reason . |
| 12 | It failed because the French and the British were unhappy about supporting such a move and indeed the United Nations looked very likely er er to be more erm willing to condemn the United States than it was to condemn North Vietnam but the view of most countries in the world at that time was that North Viet that North and South Vietnam were part of the same country , that the Geneva accords in nineteen fifty four which called for unification should be upheld , and that the United States was interfering in , in a south east Asian country for no good reason . |
| 13 | Helen Gardner , for many years an Oxford luminary , did not believe that the purpose of ‘ English ’ was to turn out critics , any more than it was to produce poets and novelists . |
| 14 | Now , it 's not then that society does n't believe in the supernatural , we believe in the supernatural , society at large believes in the supernatural , the tragedy is that the natural man , the natural person however , as always is more willing to believe Satan 's mysteries than he is to believe God 's mysteries . |