Example sentences of "than [adj] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sun has not been one of the newspapers which has in any way suggested that either the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh have been other than supportive to the Princess of Wales . ’ |
| 2 | And after analysing statistics for five developed countries and reviewing results of similar studies , one researcher concluded that , " The most recent evidence indicates that the bulk of the adverse consequences of teenage childbearing ( for the health of children ) may be of social and economic origin , rather than attributable to the effects of young age per se " . |
| 3 | They will be more than grateful to the English Poundstretcher League for the experience being gained by 13 of their 16-man squad . |
| 4 | In defence of Maxim 's interpretation , it should be said that it comes closer than usual to the notated metronome marks . |
| 5 | The reason for their success seems to me to be less due to their perceptiveness concerning pre-capitalist conditions than due to the depth of their analysis of the nature of labour under capitalism . |
| 6 | ( 1976 ) have found that pre-exposure to a tone and a light presented serially generates less latent inhibition than pre-exposure to the target stimulus presented alone ( a result also reported by Szakmary , ( 1977 ) in a study using a noise and a light as the stimuli ) . |
| 7 | The response of Conservatives who followed colonial affairs in Britain was less than friendly to the NLM ; one article asserted : ‘ It is not by breakaway and territorial fragmentation that opponents of a government in power should seek to get their way but by fighting the government as a nation-wide party and finally throwing it out . ’ |
| 8 | The concerns of Erskine , Campbell and Bushnell also throw into relief the fact that Anglo-Saxon theology tended to devote rather more attention than German to the matter of the atonement — indeed the very word ‘ atonement ’ is an English one which has no precise German equivalent . |
| 9 | There is no known proof of true hereditary surnames in the period before the Conquest , and although a number of Domesday tenants of English origins have names additional to their first — such as Alnod of Kent , a byname given to a man with land in Oxfordshire — there is little or no evidence to show that these were other than personal to the individuals . |
| 10 | There is no evidence that the East Saxons under Swaefberht , who seems to have succeeded Offa ( see above p. 124 ) and who died in 738 , and then under Selered ( see Appendix , Fig. 2 ) , who died in 746 ( ASC A , s.a. 746 ) , were anything other than subject to the Mercians at this time and Aethelbald appears to have been master of the land of the Middle Saxons ( CS 182 : S 100 ) . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State is not required to entertain an appeal if it appears to him that permission for the proposed development could not have been granted by the local planning authority , or could not have been so granted otherwise than subject to the conditions imposed by them , having regard to the statutory requirements to the provisions of the development order , and to any directions given under the order . |
| 12 | Needless to say the revelations made by John Stalker ( 1988 ) were also less than welcome to the service , and all around I heard my contemporaries condemn the fact that he had gone public . |
| 13 | It 's about designing a chassis that 's more than equal to the demands of high-performance driving . |
| 14 | At this point the marginal pound he or she earns from an hour 's work is just more than equal to the value of that hour in watching TV or pottering in the garden . |
| 15 | There was a steely ring in Iris 's voice that dared Harris — or anyone else — to delay them further but he was more than equal to the challenge . |
| 16 | But in the same interview Mr Dole , as is his way , was a little less than helpful to the president . |
| 17 | The association was closed to new members from the time that this project became public , but now membership will be opened again : I imagine there will be considerably more interest in membership than prior to the event . |
| 18 | Seven years ago a distinguished list of signatories wrote in your columns that the existing law clearly no longer represented either Christian or liberal opinion in this country , and that its continued enforcement would do more harm than good to the community as a whole . |
| 19 | Class B ( rare ) A charge on land ( other than a local land charge ) of any of the kinds described in Class A created otherwise than pursuant to the application of any person . |
| 20 | ( 11 ) The buyer must not acquire or dispose of shares ( or rights over shares ) in the target during the tender offer period other than pursuant to the tender offer . |
| 21 | Pantisocracy , the everlasting theme , he considered an ‘ epidemic delusion ’ of comic potential , a judgement not inappropriate to some of Southey 's more absurd pronouncements on the subject that summer , but less than fair to the deep seriousness with which Coleridge had begun to form his Pantisocratic ideas of social relations and social justice . |
| 22 | To share a little could not be other than beneficial to the recipient 's soul ! ’ |
| 23 | Initially there appeared to be little to choose between them , but careful comparative trials showed that Marsilid made more contribution than isoniazid to the improvements in appetite and the weight gain . |
| 24 | The trap takes the form of an apparently harmless conservatory which would look more at home on a patio than adjacent to the stuffed gorillas . |
| 25 | After Independence , Partition and the departure of most British and Muslim cadres from the ICS , Nehru , the new Prime Minister , who had previously been less than sympathetic to the ICS , came increasingly to depend upon men such as Pillai , who — embodying the Service 's traditions of discretion and loyalty — had no difficulty in serving a new master . |