Example sentences of "than [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only two cities in Poland have more Poles , and but two cities in Ireland have more Irish than are to be found in Chicago . |
| 2 | In England and Wales we are singularly placed to appreciate the relationship of scenery and structure , for few other parts of the earth 's surface show in a similar small area so great a diversity of rock types and of landscape features : " Britain is a world by itself " ; its mountains are not high , nor its rivers long , but within a few hundred miles of travel from east to west one may see more varieties of scenery than are to be found in many bigger countries . |
| 3 | 39 and 40 ) suggest more specific levels of affinity than are to be considered here . |
| 4 | It is astonishing that more Protestants now study in universities on the mainland — more than a quarter — than are to be found in the University of Ulster ; and if we take the total , only 55pc of Protestant students now study here . |
| 5 | I often say that nowhere in our empire — not even in the slums of Calcutta or Bombay — is there worse poverty than is to be found in the shadow of the mother of Parliaments . ’ |
| 6 | The attainment of the happy state of Utopia requires vastly more personal discipline and co-operation between peoples than is to be found in this late twentieth-century . |
| 7 | Delamont and Galton ( 1987 ) think that arts teachers may be attempting to overcome the low esteem in which their work is held by other teachers by adopting even more rigorous practices of pupil work assignment and evaluation than is to be observed in the practices of teachers in other areas of study thereby establishing their academic credibility . |
| 8 | Already by the late middle ages the English were beginning to expect more space and more privacy in their houses than was to be normal in Scandinavia for another three centuries . |
| 9 | This bespoke greater intellectual confidence than was to be evident at later stages of controversy . |
| 10 | The occasional protests by staff through the years over pay and conditions had usually been dealt with quickly , abrasions salved and healed by the implicit belief that matters would eventually improve , if not tomorrow , then certainly by the day after — and that one was still having more fun than was to be had almost anywhere else anyway . |