Example sentences of "[pron] than [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt those whom we so recently persuaded to seek their bread elsewhere are hungry because they are idle , vicious , and ill-conditioned and think it easier to rob such innocent and harmless passers-by as I than to toil in the fields . ’ |
| 2 | The high strength of thin fibres may be due in part to the fact that such fibres are very easily bent and it is therefore easier to bend them than to scratch them . |
| 3 | It 's easy here , Hilary , Monica and Yvonne are more like your mates than your mum , it 's easier to talk to them than to talk to my mum . |
| 4 | And what more practical way of repaying them than to ensure that their own little seedling of bonheur had time to sprout and shoot , to root and burgeon ? |
| 5 | By Nov. 1 1943 the German C-in-C Southeast had concluded ‘ that Tito 's forces had to be treated as a full military threat and not merely as insurgents and that it was more important to defeat them than to prepare against the less likely threat of an Allied landing ’ . |
| 6 | It is far better to think through the principles in advance and to act consistently with them than to improvise . |
| 7 | They were trying more to come one place ahead of me than to win a medal . |
| 8 | But he warned : ‘ There is no greater challenge in rugby for me than to play against England before my own people . ’ |
| 9 | Surely he deserves better of me than to gaze at him with my policeman 's eyes . |
| 10 | The grail itself was sin , none other than sin itself ; what greater obeisance to Love itself than to part with all ? |
| 11 | It sometimes takes more courage to say no , I do n't want to you than to get into the fight yeah . |
| 12 | It is easier to stop doing something than to continue with an activity but with greater efficiency . |
| 13 | The mind finds it much easier to work upon something than to cast around in a search . |
| 14 | If they want to take the opportunity to erm move to Newcastle , to be near their relatives , they 'll have that choice as well , and it 's if we have to make difficult choices of this kind , then it 's more — I 'm sorry to keep using the word logical , but it is — it 's logical to choose this one than to choose one of the remoter homes in the county that serves a local populace where there is no alternative . |
| 15 | If someone throws a number of tennis balls at you , it is easier to catch a single coloured one than to catch one that is identical with all the rest . |
| 16 | As I was training Dawn more to display her than to use her to hunt , this comparative lack of interest in food was n't a problem . |
| 17 | It was as filled with rare and handsome things as any other in the palazzo , yet it had a different feel to it , as if its owner had furnished it more with an eye to what pleased him than to effect . |
| 18 | In this encounter and during many others following , as it turned out , his God proved more willing to try him than to catch him up to safety ; and in this trial of his will , Kit Everard failed . |
| 19 | Remember that it is better to kill the reader with kindness by selecting information for him than to batter him to death in a flurry of factual blows ! |
| 20 | And how better to do it than to collaborate with one of the prime movers behind National Music Day , Mick Jagger , in a concert to celebrate The Blues . |
| 21 | Instead of putting it in the power of the creditor to prevent his debtor from obtaining his liberty on giving up his all , it vested the right of a negative in the judges in open court , where it was more just to place it than to allow it to remain in the power of the creditor who , from motives of resentment , was less likely to decide impartially in his own cause . |
| 22 | Where land is already spoilt , it may make more sense to find appropriate uses for it than to clean it up . |
| 23 | In such cases it is better not to do it than to do it badly . |
| 24 | The question in the last sentence can not be answered , of course ; it is imponderable and we can go no further with it than to agree that it is useful to expose such uncertainties now and then . |
| 25 | To those humans who , given mastery of space , preferred to vault across it than to linger in orbit and build there , Mars and its hurtling moons had been the first great benefit of the gift . |
| 26 | Sorry to go on and on about this backing up business , but it 's much better to do it than to end up losing information ( and I write as someone who has done just that in the past ; of course I 'm perfect now ) . |
| 27 | This was very sensible advice since such was the popularity of Coronation Street that a great many people would have preferred to view it than to exercise any electoral function . |
| 28 | Men thus instructed often found it easier to get on with it than to try and explain the danger all over again . |
| 29 | we said it 's easier for us than to keep borrowing Eileen 's every year |
| 30 | I have so much more important concerns on my mind that I am hardly fit for anything , or to wish for anything than to receive the last releasing stroke . |