Example sentences of "than [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , most users saw the centres as somewhere to go to get out of the house rather than somewhere to learn . |
| 2 | To do this requires some ability to acknowledge and manage one 's own infantile feelings rather than inflexibly to project them into the other . |
| 3 | Wolves in fact have done more than most to provide evidence that the game is ridding itself of violence . |
| 4 | It 's better to get comfortable with the approach in a situation where you are confident , like a weekly meeting , than suddenly to try and implement it when you are in a more testing situation , like an important sales presentation . |
| 5 | If all providers going into trusts and if all er purchasing gon na be done by fund holders , the majority of whom are confident at this stage they 'll become fund holders what actually is the role of the purchasing consortium that be and role of the health authorities , as such er , other than perhaps to collect statistics in the future of our time the climbing and quality of the health service in this area ? |
| 6 | She had not the least idea of what she should do next , other than perhaps to fasten the strange garment about her waist . |
| 7 | However , there are reasons why the state may prefer to own rather than merely to regulate . |
| 8 | If it seems that things could be finally settled by deciding whether a foetus is a person , this can only be because ‘ person ’ is used to ascribe a moral status rather than merely to describe . |
| 9 | Psychophysiological measures are now used to define sleep states , rather than merely to describe them . |
| 10 | Their use as a screen or selector seems to dictate the curriculum rather than merely to reflect it , and to bring it about that easily measurable accomplishments should be given priority , the repeating of acquired factual information , or the mechanical performance of skills picked up without understanding . |
| 11 | When considering the regulations for set-aside , which is a very valuable tool in the present negotiations , will the Minister make them rather more positive by enabling farmers who have land set aside — especially , perhaps , for one year — to use the year to clean the land rather than merely to cut it ? |
| 12 | This seems particularly objectionable when pleasures and pains prevented come into account , for one may well think it worse in an action to produce pain than merely to hinder a corresponding amount of pleasure occurring . |
| 13 | This is carried out in relatively modern mercury and diaphragm electrochemical cells and consumes huge amounts of electricity — more than enough to power the city of Liverpool . |
| 14 | And I think that the revolution in history which has taken place over the course of the last twenty-five years has been a revolution which has been fuelled by people 's curiosity to study things which previously had not been studied , rather than just to take some formal statement of what seemed to be important , which is what the chroniclers took , or some propaganda statement , which is what the Tudors took and what the seventeenth century historians took , or indeed to write very academic history , which is what professional historians have tended to do , over the course of the last erm forty or fifty years . |
| 15 | Well something other than just to talk about other than just the normal run of road things . |
| 16 | than just to read , is that what you want me to do ? |
| 17 | Then again , addictions to substances that affect different types of synapse can be quite similar — and some people seem to be prone to addiction per se , rather than just to have a weakness for a particular substance . |
| 18 | But perhaps one day he would want more than just to know . |
| 19 | So in the future we also have a lot to give to the rest of the world rather than just to look for help . |
| 20 | ‘ There is more to fishing than just to fish ’ and how right he was . |
| 21 | Jinny rattled on , less from politeness than just to try and cover the terrible , wooden silence . |
| 22 | I feel that it would be much better to talk about the issues internally first , with due reference to our own training budget and other constraints , rather than just to send staff out on external management training courses . |
| 23 | He then asserted that it was greater to exist than not to exist . |
| 24 | Anselm 's definition is seen as part of a clever philosophical con trick whereby he argues that it is greater for something to exist than not to exist , and thereby that the definition of God ( as the greatest thing conceivable ) demands that He exist ! |
| 25 | So , then , I decided it was better to see the finish than not to finish at all . ’ |
| 26 | Their initial meeting at dinner in Hall was not quite accidental : the nature of the placement was such that strong scholarship candidates were more likely than not to find themselves sitting together . |
| 27 | Doubly authentic , because I have often observed that where , these delicate questions are concerned most listeners are more inclined than not to accept the most improbable of two or three possible explanations for the vagaries of a person 's conduct . |
| 28 | It is much worse to begin too soon , he wrote , than not to begin at all . |
| 29 | In some ways it is better to communicate with the client and say that nothing has happened , than not to communicate with the client because nothing has happened . |
| 30 | Better to have a go and fail than not to have a go at all . ’ |