Example sentences of "[subord] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | East of the Ribblehead railway viaduct and almost in its evening shadow is the desolate moorland of Batty Green , an inhospitable tract of rough ground without distinguishing landmarks and apparently devoid of interest except to grazing sheep , with nothing to earn a second glance by motorists on the Ingleton — Hawes road alongside . |
| 2 | SO Iran-contra did not happen much , except to certain people ; and even those people often felt caught up in events that were exceptionally odd and different , adventures they might have watched on television , and in which they especially did not expect to find themselves . |
| 3 | From Johnson , though , came a relentless jumble of mixed metaphors — scarcely credible , except to regular Independent readers . |
| 4 | Even less visible except to immediate participants and police is the routine ‘ slow rioting ’ of Saturday night street brawling , which ( according to the perceptions of all the chiefs constables I have interviewed in a research project over the last year ) is assuming more menacing and violent proportions throughout the country . |
| 5 | Alain was played as an idiot who hardly danced at all except to full over his own feet . |
| 6 | Except to hidebound conservatives , it was evident that , whatever body of men governed patriot Spain , it must seek strength and legitimacy by summoning the nation to a Cortes . |
| 7 | In the twentieth century there has been a steady drift of power from assemblies to executives in Western liberal democracies , and this is as true of Britain as of the United States , although to different extents . |
| 8 | This is the Lyricist Lounge , where twice a month aspiring rappers run new rhymes past each other in something that 's closer to an old school jam than to videogenic 1992 hip hop . |
| 9 | If this is indeed so , and if it is true that the latency period is in decline as an important cultural phenomenon , then it seems difficult not to conclude that in some very significant respects modern Western child-rearing practices are approximating more to those of pre-Neolithic , pre-agricultural societies like those of the Australian aborigines than to modern industrial ones . |
| 10 | Because of their attachment to Judaism 's holy places , the religious parties have often seemed closer to the Greater Israel policy of the Likud than to Labour , with its belief in exchanging territorial concessions for peace . |
| 11 | Opportunities for major fund-raising from other sources are very limited : partly because trust funds usually direct their resources to new short-term projects rather than to longestablished work , and partly because such trusts have been inundated with requests from other agencies suffering from withdrawal of Local Authority grants . |
| 12 | Cp6 bound more strongly to HLA-B51 than to HLA-B53 but the allelic variants of this peptide with single amino-acid substitutions at position 4 , cp6.1 and cp6.2 , bound more strongly to HLA-B53 and very poorly to HLA-B51 ( data not shown ) . |
| 13 | But shoppers are now more loyal to their local shops than to faceless behemoths like Philip Morris . |
| 14 | That means looking to the mainstream history of the discipline , rather than to current alternatives , which are at present partial and incipient . |
| 15 | Further supporting this sense of group accountability and relationships is a reward system oriented more to teamwork than to individual work . |
| 16 | Attention is thereby directed towards qualities and relationships rather than to external aspects such as monetary worth or historical background . |
| 17 | Through clientelism , the allegiance of the peasant is to his patron rather than to other peasants , so that it is more difficult for solidarity between those in the peasant class to develop . |
| 18 | This effectively gives a much smaller ‘ weight ’ to reference resolution than to other parts of the system ; two interpretations that differ only in the referents they assign to anaphors will be much closer together in the sequence of structures presented to the plausibility checker than two interpretations that differ only in some other respect , such as an alternation of word senses . |
| 19 | ( Related to that view is the naive assumption of certain sociobiologists that sociobiology should expect to be more closely related to social anthropology than to other social sciences , because the ‘ primitive ’ peoples studied by social anthropology are nearer to nature than human beings who live in large industrialized societies . ) |
| 20 | The outline above suggests that agnathans are a paraphyletic group ( that is , some are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than to other agnathans ) and therefore the presence of circular mouths and pouch-like gills was part of gnathostome history . |
| 21 | This positive shift in investment occurred not only in one or two large industries but for all industries — a fact which strengthens the view that the shift was due to regional policy rather than to other factors . |
| 22 | Indeed , differences over time and differences among hospitals , regions , and populations may be due to the proportion of primiparous women in the study group rather than to other variables . |
| 23 | These activities reinforced the general fear that apathy might cause the poll to be unduly low which it was thought would be a greater handicap to SDLP than to other parties . |
| 24 | the research topics lend themselves to publication in Nature rather than to other journals ; |
| 25 | the research topics lend themselves to publication in Nature rather than to other journals ; |
| 26 | It has been said that these rules will be applied less stringently to a commercial contract than to other types of document ( Henry Boot Construction v Central Lancashire New Town Development Corpn ( 1980 ) 15 BLR 8 ) but the drafter should bear them in mind and , if possible , avoid their application . |
| 27 | It gives greater protection to consumers than to other contractors . |
| 28 | POU-homeodomains are more closely related to one another than to other homeodomain proteins ( 1 ) and can interact weakly with DNA . |
| 29 | Clyde was not popular with some sections of the legal profession and of the press , which suggested that his appointment to high office was due more to birth and political influence than to legal talent . |
| 30 | Until well into the reign of Augustus the display of Greek art in Rome was more closely linked to political advancement and military might than to religious belief and aesthetic appreciation . |