Example sentences of "than [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Universities tend to train academics and research workers to have very detailed knowledge of relatively narrow aspects of agriculture ; their farms are designed for experiment and demonstration rather than to impart practical skills and experience . |
| 2 | A hedge less than 5–6ft tall is , in my opinion , not much of a hedge at all in wildlife , game , and landscape terms . |
| 3 | Even the economic stimulus package that Congress defeated last week , which contained nearly half a billion dollars for the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) , the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and other federal research agencies ( see right ) , would at best have strengthened existing programmes rather than charting new directions . |
| 4 | But he told me that , in the eyes of the law , theft is actually a lesser charge than handling stolen goods If there were n't people handling stolen goods then nobody would nick things in the first place . |
| 5 | Wholesale and retail deposits command different interest rates partly because of the relative administrative convenience of handling wholesale funds on a large scale rather than handling large numbers of small deposits . |
| 6 | You , you apologized for lateness the only thing I wonder on there is er you know it 's ea it 's easy enough to say that you did n't actually sort of clarify the time that you were gon na be there , you just accepted that you were late erm but I mean that 's a you know ju just a point I wonder that rather than apologizing straight of all , straight , straight away if you knew you were late then that was one thing that perhaps you could 've got that in the initial greeting . |
| 7 | Broadcasting objectives and market data among technical people , rather than channelling specific kinds of information to individuals , and being non-directive in work assignments might be an appropriate management strategy here . |
| 8 | IMHO it is a much better idea in the long run to post the material to an anonymous FTP location rather than wasting valuable Internet bandwidth E-Mailing the material around the list ! |
| 9 | Rather than organizing mass midnight meetings to confront the evil in working-class areas she judged it more effective for women to go into the ‘ dens of infamy ’ in the morning as friends and advisers . |
| 10 | Still , whatever it is , it 's better than singing pathetic songs glorifying plane crashes … |
| 11 | ‘ Better than singing boastful tunes like ‘ Rule Britannia ’ as though you Brits were n't beaten hollow by us poor rebels , ’ was her riposte to that . |
| 12 | It 's part of a ten million pounds appeal to show people that there 's more to scouting than singing round camp fires . |
| 13 | When the IWC was established in 1946 , its purpose was to work for the resuscitation of an industry that was declining because stocks had been over-exploited during the previous decades , rather than to conserve existing whale stocks . |
| 14 | those following an implicit social optimality approach , looking at the pros and cons of a reform from the viewpoint of all affected individuals rather than reflecting sectional interests , |
| 15 | In theory a statute could do no more than declare existing law ; and statutes were cast in a declaratory form . |
| 16 | She had tried to make a pipe once by hollowing out the pith , spongy like the white stuff inside a peeled rush , carving holes with an awl , but the pipe had never done more than make thin sounds magnifying her breathing . |
| 17 | And slick pictures of pretty young people who seem to have nothing better to do than make amateur porn videos — often appearing in up to a dozen different tapes . |
| 18 | Rather than plant new hedgerows , these rural pioneers continued to leave extensive ‘ shaws ’ , banks of trees and shrubs between the small fields . |
| 19 | Mr. Gow : While recognising the undoubted right of all members of the General Synod to deeply held views for or against the policies of the present Government , would it be helpful if my right Hon. Friend were to point out to the General Synod that its reputation would be enhanced if its members , when in Synod , devoted more time to matters spiritual than to matter political ? |
| 20 | What more cheering than to see distracted people looking for seats when we were definitely full up ? … |
| 21 | For example , the post-war British Electricity Authority tried to insist on the protocol of official contact through the board secretary rather than allowing civil servants to make contact directly with specialist personnel ( Hannah 1982 : 44 ) . |
| 22 | His prescriptions for a ‘ dignified and durable tourism ’ were : first , to limit the number of visitors and levy a $150–200 fee that would go directly into a conservation fund ; second , include conservation awareness as part of the visit ; third , improve the existing facilities rather than build new ; and fourth , work to improve the standard of living in the adjacent city of Siem Reap . |
| 23 | It 's becoming fashionable to buy in rather than build specialised servers — IBM Corp and Digital Equipment Corp are both doing it , and now ICL Plc has gone to Burlington , Massachusetts-based Xylogics Inc for the Annex Three and Micro Annex XL communications servers under an OEM agreement that will see the UK company marketing them as the DRS local network terminal server line with its DRS 6000 range of Sparc-based and DRS 3000 iAPX-86-based Unix systems . |
| 24 | Doug Gowan , of the TUC Education Department , argues that the courses are intended to develop skills and techniques rather than transmit abstract and academic knowledge ; the TUC has tried to dissuade tutors from thinking in terms of ‘ subjects ’ or ‘ disciplines ’ , and instead to shift towards ‘ student-centred educational methods ’ which shift away from classroom styles towards something more like a trade union meeting or office discussion : |
| 25 | Better to continue to suffer under its domination and its oppression than gain economic power through blood and slaughter . |
| 26 | So , it takes longer to eradicate old learning ( bad intellectual habits ) than to acquire new learning ( good intellectual habits ) . |
| 27 | Better to buy time with covert operations and the steady working of violence , crime and racketeering than to risk vote-endangering controversy . |
| 28 | Rather than seeing political struggle as ultimately reflecting class struggle , the liberal tradition credits the leading actors in the historical drama with an independence and causative importance of their own . |
| 29 | ‘ Rather than seeing total disagreement , I would prefer to have a good compromise , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Erm , but in the end th o only one had any impact and in general , see seeing a female professional was , I have to say , a lot more helpful than seeing male professionals . |