Example sentences of "than they are to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tests have since shown that when the weak-tabby European and African wild cats are crossed with one another , the hybrid kittens develop coat patterns which are much closer to the tabby patterns of modern domestic cats than they are to the markings of either of their parents . |
| 2 | ‘ Half the songs are more relevant to America than they are to Britain , ’ agrees Jim Bob . |
| 3 | B , b , This classification is one of several suggesting that one or other of the fossil groups are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than they are to other agnathans . |
| 4 | And was Simone de Beauvoir ( 1972 ) justified in believing that , because women ‘ live dispersed among the males , attached through residence , housework , economic condition , and social standing to certain men — fathers or husbands — more firmly than they are to other women ’ , they can have no common identity or history ? |
| 5 | While a radical feminist like Millett can argue that ‘ male and female are really two cultures , and their life experiences are utterly different ’ , Marxist feminists would argue that the life experiences of middle-class women are much closer to those of middle-class men than they are to those of working-class women . |
| 6 | Certainly , among extreme Ulster unionists we continue to find a discourse of antiCatholicism which employs scriptural apocalyptic images which one suspects would be more readily comprehensible to late sixteenth- or seventeenth-century audiences than they are to most twentieth-century ones . |
| 7 | Zoologists can with greater justice call humans fish , since fish are far closer kin to humans than they are to lobsters . |
| 8 | Children are more likely to obtain jobs in the class bracket of their fathers than they are to be socially mobile . |