Example sentences of "than to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four years after their meeting he published an account of Venetian painters of the Renaissance , where he acknowledged ‘ his indebtedness to the first systematic writers on Italian painting no less than to the perfectors of the new critical method , now adopted by nearly all serious students of Italian art ’ . |
| 2 | He is , after all , an actor 's part and perfectly accessible — he prefers , too , to be acted rather than to be read . |
| 3 | Clearly , the follow-up study was more favourable to the defenders of catholic schools than to opponents . |
| 4 | If the fields below happen to be large , they may get down safely , but a safe landing is often due to luck rather than to good judgement . |
| 5 | Because they appear reasonably proficient , the instructors tend to give less practice to them than to the other students . |
| 6 | The remainder were taken up in the amalgamations of 1974 , which coincided with the creation of the Metropolitan Councils , and today 's amalgamated forces often seem to owe as much to local and national political opportunity than to any operational logic ; and even two decades after the first melding together of the small forces , attempts to standardize uniform and systems of operation has consistently failed to dislodge many localized , small-scale beliefs and practices . |
| 7 | Local authorities often charge a different fee to their own residents and ratepayers than to outsiders , although there may be concessions to former residents and community charge payers . |
| 8 | Their measure of their health status was related to what they could do , rather than to the presence of current disease or conditions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The easiest way to solve the problem is to feed a high-fat , complete food which has been scientifically balanced for the working/hyperactive dog , rather than to play around with the ingredients yourself . |
| 11 | Dostoevsky owed even more to Cervantes than to Molière , and here again , as in his relations with Shakespeare and Pushkin , it 's a visitation with no very palpable memorial . |
| 12 | If discourses articulate concepts through a system or signs which signify by means or their relationship to each other rather than to entities in the world , and ir literature is a signifying practice , all it can reflect is the order inscribed in particular discourses , not the nature or the world . |
| 13 | Conversely , poetry is in many ways closer to music than to the more extended and discursive literary forms . |
| 14 | On 19 March that year Crane told Winters that ‘ Williams probably means less to me than to you ’ , and then proceeded to a hesitant account of how he felt about this one of their older contemporaries : |
| 15 | Future Neil Kinnocks — or David Blunketts or Michael Meachers or even Ken Livingstones — will find that their best strategy in their early years in national politics will be to act and speak in a way that appeals to ordinary television-watching , newspaper-reading Labour Party members , rather than to the left 's hyperactivists . |
| 16 | And if a work as trite , foolish and offensive to women as Now , Voyager should , after 40 years , remain as watchable today as on its initial release , when equally feeble plays and novels from the same period have vanished into a limbo of neglect from which they can never be retrieved , it is a tribute less to the very questionable ‘ artistry ’ of its writer and director than to the enduring fascination of its leading actress . |
| 17 | The same might be said of Neville Brody whose typography for The Face owes more to computer-operated typesetting than to calligraphy . |
| 18 | He has miraculously survived all this , and even being education secretary , but how would he measure up to being chairman , in a party where , in times of stress , to be party chairman is a greater thing than to be a secretary of state ? |
| 19 | Far better to take what is , and bring in progressive changes , than to radically alter the whole thing . ’ |
| 20 | It behoves the sceptics among us to listen and argue rather than to whoop with delight at the superficial difficulties . |
| 21 | Later , in a chapter entitled ‘ The Application of Paint ’ it says that recent books on decoration have ‘ done more to debase the traditional approach to decoration than to further an appreciation of its subtleties ’ . |
| 22 | The £3 supplementary charge now applies to the whole journey , rather than to each train taken . |
| 23 | No wonder this part of Ireland felt a closer allegiance to Scotland than to the rest of Ireland over so many centuries . |
| 24 | Curiously , more attention appears to be paid to ‘ industry talk ’ than to the reports and publications produced by different trade and governmental bodies . ’ |
| 25 | The Living Church owed its popularity to the parish priests , the oppressed ‘ white ’ clergy whom it supported , rather than to any enthusiasm amongst the masses . |
| 26 | People reacted very differently to Tara than to Mark . |
| 27 | This is partly due to my experiences as a politician , because I know as a politician that when you are doing something naughty , nothing is more effective than to muddy the waters with complication . |
| 28 | In ‘ Sweeney Erect ’ the modern seems closer to the savage Polyphemus than to Emerson , and the delight in attacking the nineteenth century is obvious ; but so is the tension between modern and ancient . |
| 29 | It is a spiritual community which owes its unity to common beliefs and a common attitude to life , far more than to any uniformity of physical type . |
| 30 | Whatever the historical value of such a procedure , and it was slight , it inevitably produced a rather shadowy type of society owing more to nationalist imagination than to recorded facts . |