Example sentences of "than to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A view was expressed that merit would have been better attached to the group award , rather than to every individual unit . |
| 2 | I want at least five and I just wanted to erm establish that with one or two other people who er presently attend the tourism meetings are invited as required , rather than to every meeting . |
| 3 | Some important changes were made to maintenance arrangements , whereby locomotives became attached first and foremost to specific traffic flows rather than to a defined geographical area . |
| 4 | The placebo effect means that any treatment will improve a patient merely because he wants to recover and is responding to the clinician 's attempts to help rather than to a specific treatment . |
| 5 | But that was due more to slower growth in domestic demand — and hence slower growth in demand for German exports — on the part of its trading partners than to a big jump in German imports . |
| 6 | One suspects its high rating owes less to a fondness for social-democratic parties with close trade-union links than to a loose wish for economic efficiency plus social justice . |
| 7 | It represented God 's deliverance and was closer to our Eucharist than to a sacrifice . |
| 8 | Yes , she would go into the country rather than to a seaside resort , for they were full of old , retired , ill-tempered people and had she not had her full share of that ? |
| 9 | The reaction was not against passionate expression of beliefs or against an audience 's supporting a speaker : it was against excessive displays and rhetoric more appropriate to a political rally than to a religious meeting . |
| 10 | Opposition was likely to be stronger where children were transferred to another small school rather than to a larger school . |
| 11 | In fact , it appears to have been due less to a plot than to a calculation that she could not win in a second ballot . |
| 12 | They showed that subjects given verbal pre-training with one set of stimuli learn the appropriate motor response more rapidly to these stimuli than to a further set introduced for the first time in the test phase . |
| 13 | A given amount of blood adds more hours to the life of a highly starved bat than to a less starved one . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's why her style is better suited to a Policy Unit that is hers rather than to a CPRS which serves the Cabinet . ’ |
| 15 | The children 's loss but the fault lay more with the SCO 's insensitivity to a cultural difference than to a lack of religious awareness . |
| 16 | This is usually due less to some brilliant inspiration of the moment than to a skilful adaptation of previously made and polished plans and techniques , and is therefore a product of planning rather than an alternative to it . |
| 17 | The atmosphere was casually chaotic , far more akin to an American university than to a French laboratory , but the secretaries were unmistakably French . |
| 18 | For where else would a hellish mind go after death , than to a continued experience of its own hellish thoughts and dreams ? |
| 19 | And if skills associated with the new technology are specific to a particular occupation rather than to a firm , why should either employer or employee prefer a long-term contract with one employer rather than a consultancy contract for a particular piece of work ? |
| 20 | If this is so , then the directors of a company would continue to be accountable to a share price rather than to a body of committed stakeholders . |
| 21 | It is , may I suggest , much easier to say goodbye to a face than to a wooden box . |
| 22 | The election of Keir Hardie in 1892 owed more to historical contingency than to a heightened class consciousness among the electorate . |
| 23 | But all Goddard did was to tell a succession of risqué and not at all funny stories more suited to the smoking-room than to a dinner in mixed company . |
| 24 | This can be seen in the attitude adopted towards Nissan , Toyota and Honda , although the ‘ national solution approach ’ prevailed in the sale of Rover to British Aerospace rather than to a US multinational . |
| 25 | Most people respond better to a positive co-operative position than to a confrontational stance . |
| 26 | Just as we give more weight to the views of an impartial judge , one who is not a party to the dispute in question , than to a partial one , so we give more weight to an impartial moral opinion , one expressed by a person who is not directly involved in the situation being assessed , than To an interested party . |
| 27 | Similarly we give more weight to an informed moral judge than to an uninformed one : more weight to the moral opinions of someone capable of extensive reflection and commitment than to a person incapable of concentration and careless about self-contradiction . |
| 28 | Fifteen years later , it became obvious that Lord Sagramoso was seducing the hereditary lords of neighbouring star systems — mainly agricultural ones — to turn preachers into compost and swear fealty to him rather than to a deity thirty thousand light years distant . |
| 29 | The restatement holds that no identical systems will emerge , and that the convergence of industrial societies is towards a range of alternatives rather than to a particular point . |
| 30 | How much easier and publicly commendable it is to devote yourself to the parish , however demanding , than to a wife having a nervous breakdown at home . ’ |