Example sentences of "[adv] [det] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | It soundslike a fast , powerful car , and many would rather that than silence . |
| 2 | ‘ Mind you , I 'd rather that than one production of Mozart 's Don Giovanni which I 'd really prefer to forget ! |
| 3 | Better that than discretion and gentle kindliness . |
| 4 | It was strange , but the thought of her sister marrying one of those terrible Feltons no longer filled her with abhorrence ; far better that than bring a child into the world that was n't wanted and whom her mother had already thrown off for adoption . |
| 5 | ‘ Better that than not , ’ said the thin man . |
| 6 | ‘ Better that than being used , ’ sneered Derek . |
| 7 | The shutters ' anchor points had to be welded to the hull and , especially at the stern where the windows wrapped round Wavebreaker 's counter , the bolts looked intrusive and ugly , but better that than to be a good-looking boat fifty fathoms down and still sinking . |
| 8 | ‘ Better that than a coffin , ’ he whispered , adding as he leaned in to retrieve his fiddle : ‘ And if my coffin is half as comfortable ‘ t is a smooth journey I 'll be having to Paradise . ’ |
| 9 | Better that than learning it from my visitors or this evening 's paper , I suppose they thought . |
| 10 | ‘ Better that than you should practise all your sweet deceits on me . ’ |
| 11 | To admit to being innocent of guile somehow smacked of being undesirable , immature , but far better that than be thought an actress . |
| 12 | Better that than this — emptiness . |
| 13 | Better that than spending a miserable lifetime in the Windsor soup … |
| 14 | Better that than going the way of Aldershot . ’ |
| 15 | Better that than buying summat for |
| 16 | However , better this than the alternative , ‘ Dookeepent-arch ’ , which means ‘ Please , let's never see each other again ’ . |
| 17 | Not only are there few people in the Highlands and Islands , but they are much fewer than in the past ( see Appendix 2 ) . |
| 18 | On the other hand , the openings in companies ' legal departments are much fewer than in private practice ; and in any case you should not consider articles in commerce or industry unless you are keen to make this your career . |
| 19 | Interestingly , gap junctions in patients with recurrent ulcer were much fewer than in patients with first onset ulcer . |
| 20 | Had we used the eighty five ones , the housing provision would be some ten thousand or so fewer than it is . |
| 21 | The thought of getting into the small shaky enclosure of plaited metal strips which was the lift was suddenly more than he could contemplate . |
| 22 | As we are all less than perfect , we actually need laundered messages , filtered feedback , even deliberate lies , to protect ourselves and avoid hurting others . |
| 23 | It must be stressed , however , that the choice of B must be such at unc has eigenvalues with moduli all less than unity ; Sylvester 's expansion then shows that unc as r increases . |
| 24 | Only five per cent of the staves were of the correct thickness but the rest were nearly all less than nine-sixteenths of an inch thick . |
| 25 | However , the fact that the other local minima found by the algorithm were all less than 0.15% greater than this value indicates that the path length would not necessarily have a minimum coinciding with the best probe order in other data sets containing many repeats , a fact illustrated by chromosome III . |
| 26 | The unusually confrontational rhetoric suggests that Mao was perhaps less than correct when , 40 years ago yesterday , he announced to Tiananmen : ‘ The Chinese people have stood up … we have friends all over the world . ’ |
| 27 | Nobody deserved that , and Eleanor perhaps less than most people . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Such old people may have little embarrassment with each other about bodily functions , perhaps less than some husbands and wives because they were the stuff of taken-for-granted childhood . |
| 30 | Over ninety states have accepted the obligation not to acquire nuclear arms under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty ; although this treaty has not prevented the detonation of a nuclear device by India and the covert acquisition of nuclear capacity also by Israel and South Africa , the total list of nuclear powers is relatively small , and perhaps less than may have been predicted a few years ago . |