Example sentences of "[adj] than [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the advent of railways , it was cheaper to do this than to import materials from far afield . |
| 2 | There is no doubt that conditions in these towns , particularly in the first half of the nineteenth century , were dreadful but Professor Hoskins seems more anxious to apportion blame for this than to explain why it happened , which is perhaps more important . |
| 3 | It is certainly true that it is worth ‘ pooling ’ sovereignty in some areas since it makes more sense to do this than to act independently . |
| 4 | In Sweden , again , there was a series of efforts during the eighteenth century to regulate more rationally the salaries paid to different ranks of diplomat , though there as elsewhere it was easier to do this than to pay the salaries regularly . |
| 5 | I do n't fiddle my results really — usually it 's easier to make up excuses for it being wrong than to go through and work it out to make it come out right . |
| 6 | Rousseau ( 1762 , p.54 ) wrote in Émile : ‘ Childhood has its own ways of seeing , thinking and feeling ; nothing is more foolish than to try and substitute our ways ’ . |
| 7 | The Committee has pointed out that nothing is more foolish than to have timetable motions introduced after a Committee has sat for some sessions , perhaps debating the first two or three clauses of a Bill , and then , the guilloting having been introduced , the rest of the Bill — perhaps 60 , 70 or 80 clauses — is rushed through with hardly any debate . |
| 8 | Nothing easier than to turn the husband into a trustee for his own wife . |
| 9 | Nothing is easier than to obey a master who is perhaps exacting , but who rules over all details of life , assures one 's daily bread , and makes it possible to banish all concern from the mind . |
| 10 | What could be easier than to succeed in this business ? |
| 11 | What is easier than to look at the most conspicuous item in the marketing budget and one which is largely the concern of an outside supplier , at that ? |
| 12 | ‘ Surely there is nothing easier than to imagine trees … in a park … and nobody by to perceive them . ’ |
| 13 | But what was easier than to assume that those who represented the stage of childhood or adolescence in the development of civilisation were themselves ‘ child-like ’ and had to be treated like children by their mature ‘ parents ’ ? |
| 14 | The first morning we spent weaving with every other needle , laying the wool across by hand ! this put me off right away , because we were using punchcard machines , so nothing would have been easier than to slip in Card 1 and go ahead with our weaving without any trouble . |
| 15 | Indeed , she could n't have got closer to doing what Cara wanted than to drive up to Vendelin Gajdusek 's house at the appointed time and ring his doorbell . |
| 16 | It is more exciting for crowds to watch players striving mightily against one another than to watch them conniving amicably . |
| 17 | ’ What better revenge can there be on an unfaithful mother who gives her body to another than to reject her , and with her the principle of nourishment , in becoming anorexic ? |
| 18 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 19 | I think the purpose is more to encourage the faithful than to change minds or hearts . |
| 20 | BAIE SCOTLAND believes there is no sounder way to begin 1993 than to concentrate your post-Hogmanay mind on I.P. , an issues of increasing professional importance … so sign up without delay ! |
| 21 | To mention is now more usual than to allude to : He alluded to a rather delicate matter . |
| 22 | Check that the doorway is high enough , wince there is nothing more annoying than to keep bumping your head every time you walk in . |
| 23 | It would be better to operate on the present system and to get that right than to have a discriminatory cow premium . |
| 24 | To attack the predator while it is in a stable position on the ground is far riskier than to do so when it is clinging to high branches . |
| 25 | But what was simpler than to drive the car to Streatley , siphon petrol out of the Rolls into it ( possibly even siphon some into a can as well , to top it up near London ) and then drive back ? |
| 26 | Few things were more demoralising than to stand uselessly by while other men demonstrated their professional competence ; Kerrison , that connoisseur of death , literally sniffing at the body ; the photographers , taciturn , preoccupied with lighting and angles ; Inspector Doyle , in charge of a murder case at last , impresario of death , tense with the suppressed excitement of a child at Christmas gloating over a new toy . |
| 27 | It was decided to generate the samples from referrals to the psychogeriatric service in each borough , partly because it was easier to do that than to draw them from general practitioners ' lists or social services department referrals , but mainly in order to provide the service for people whose illness was likely to be at a relatively advanced stage and who were likely to need extra care if they were to continue to live at home . |
| 28 | So to get back to what we say er yeah I like to fix a date and if people phone up and say well look I 've I 've got something else or I 've changed my mind I would rather have that than to have lots of paper work on my desk that just says may be or may be not . |
| 29 | It would be even more uncomfortable to associate with a character like that than to feel at home with our previous assessment , the hard man whose admirers compared him to a stone . |
| 30 | For a Hindu woman nothing is more important than possessing a husband and nothing is luckier than to have a loving and caring husband . |