Example sentences of "than [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Businesses and government agencies are more vulnerable than private individuals to liability because they can afford it . |
| 2 | Even in areas with more than 500 people to the acre , murder remained an uncommon crime in Glasgow , as it does today . |
| 3 | New accountability processes have to grapple with the problem of legitimising managerial autonomy and discretion ( to achieve results ) with the need to give real rather than fictional accounts to the various publics with which the organisation interacts . |
| 4 | There must be more than fifty passengers to each stove . ’ |
| 5 | The functional rather than case-finding approach to this screening raises different issues . |
| 6 | It was a bigger race , she was on a better horse , maybe she had ridden with more coolness than usual thanks to the emergency prescription of Dr Cy McCray . |
| 7 | The comprehensive text does more than ample justice to the illustrations . |
| 8 | Kingdon 's ideas may seem like a recipe for environmental determinism , but the link drawn between a recent origin for humans and the fundamentally local nature of adaptation means that his book is also a powerful indictment of any attempt to rank human populations in terms of progress or to see the evolution of human races as anything other than short-term responses to particular problems . |
| 9 | He said he was not out to attribute blame or indulge in recriminations for last week 's ‘ grievous defeat ’ , but added : ‘ I think it fair to say that our tax proposals show perhaps less than total sensitivity to some of the interests of the voters in the South of England in particular , whose support we need . |
| 10 | Mr Gould did not intend to indulge in recriminations over Thursday 's defeat but he felt Mr Smith 's tax policy and its impact on middle income earners in the South ‘ perhaps showed less than total sensitivity to their interests . |
| 11 | El Niño is apparently triggered by the warming of ocean currents in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific , which set off a pattern of weather bringing drought to many tropical areas , but heavier than normal rain to the western American seaboard . |
| 12 | Sterling also fell more than 2 cents to $1.4345 , and its trade-weighted average value slumped from 77.0 to equal the previous record closing low of 76.0 per cent of its 1985 level . |
| 13 | The new election law provided for the election of not less than 140 deputies to parliament ( previously 250 ) . |
| 14 | The main FT-SE 100 index of top companies jumped more than 43 points to 2436.4 . |
| 15 | It has generally been much more effective in forming the musical sensibilities of clergy than hit-and-run visits to theological colleges . |
| 16 | At the same time he thought it desirable to submit to them a brief record of his work ( Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 1899 , pp. 3–11 ) , in view of what were in his opinion the less than adequate references to it in the 1899 James Forrest lecture on ‘ Magnetism ’ by J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] , in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( vol. cxxxviii , pp. 289–311 ) . |
| 17 | When there were less than 30 days to delivery , no further daily volatility estimates were computed . |
| 18 | As almost all TDs are now willing to admit , the obligation inherent in the STV to compete for votes by looking after the interests of constituents forces them to give less than proper attention to their prime constitutional responsibility as legislators . |
| 19 | If Cartha lose by more than 53 points to Lismore on Saturday they will go down . |
| 20 | Those who know better will not rest contented with such a meagre peep of a lake so singularly grand , but will round the hill rather more than another mile to the west , and when the dark lake is full in view , sit down to drink a long look from that favourable point of view . |
| 21 | No sooner has one cycle started to diminish in amplitude than another disturbance to the economy occurs , starting off a new cycle . |
| 22 | Eventually the conditions are just right and the tow planes move into action , hauling more than forty gliders to the start point . |
| 23 | Acheson added : ‘ I would accept [ using ] the average concentration [ rather than a maximum ] in relation to methaemoglobinaemia , ’ which goes less than half way to the justification that the DoE was seeking for a relaxation of the 50 mg/litre standard . |
| 24 | It is for cases of this kind , where the evidence shows that there was active persuasion rather than compassionate assistance to someone already determined to commit suicide , that a substantial maximum penalty is thought necessary . |
| 25 | Moreover , since the inclusion of items whose delivery was not straightforward , and of items delivered to reserve ( the latter being given lower priority than direct deliveries to readers ) would distort the results , in all categories the delivery times only of straightforward deliveries to readers are discussed . |
| 26 | This was excavated in the nineteenth century , mainly at Vulci near Florence , and belonged to the noble Guglielmi family until 1935 , when Benedetto donated half of the more than 700 artefacts to the Pope ; the other heir died without leaving his share to the Vatican . |
| 27 | Such areas require more than simple changes to the plan of the street if safety is to be radically improved . |
| 28 | Indeed an even more striking feature of the results was that the individuals examined were especially high on a measure of ‘ ego strength ’ , indicating a greater than average resistance to mental breakdown : the finding is particularly interesting because the latter is usually very low in subjects who deviate markedly on the clinical scales of tests like the MMPI . |
| 29 | They will have a greater than average susceptibility to infection and disease , including kidney and heart problems , lung disorders , and even leukaemia . |
| 30 | But young farm workers today are part of the post-war generation of rural inhabitants who have been subjected far more than preceding generations to the cultural influences and judgements of wider society . |