Example sentences of "than [verb] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it is , it 's the family who takes responsibility for denying the baby existence , though permitting its death rather than allowing its life . |
| 2 | The General Assembly on Sept. 22 voted by 127 votes to six ( Kenya , Swaziland , Tanzania , Yugoslavia , Zambia and Zimbabwe ) with 26 abstentions , to exclude the FRY from its proceedings and to ask it to apply for UN membership , rather than accepting its claim to succeed automatically to the General Assembly seat formerly held by the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( SFRY ) . |
| 3 | Medical research company Medirace , which is trying to develop a drug to treat cancer and Aids , is more than tripling its size through an £87million takeover . |
| 4 | Hardly more than easing its weight |
| 5 | Since 1985 , Heidrick and Struggles in London has more than tripled its number of consultants — from five to fifteen — most of them at first new to search and comparatively young . |
| 6 | In elections to the Landtag ( provincial parliament ) in Upper Austria on Oct. 6 the extreme right Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) more than tripled its share of the vote , winning 17.7 per cent ( 5 per cent in the last Upper Austria provincial elections in 1985 — see p. 34110 ) and 11 seats ( three hitherto ) . |
| 7 | Between 1970 and 1986 the Ivory Coast , often regarded as one of Africa 's success stories , more than tripled its cereals imports , its external debt rose more than thirty-fold , and food production per capita barely kept up with population growth ( World Bank , 1988 , Tables ) . |
| 8 | There were genuine attempts to curb these activities but the PLO could do no more than send its security units into the streets to prevent looting . |
| 9 | One is led to conclude from all this that despite some tactical ‘ victories ’ here and there , the British point of view with respect to policy in the EEC has not on the whole prevailed , any more than has its influence over the development of the institutional framework of the Community . |
| 10 | The plans unveiled yesterday means that Russell has more than exceeded its original plans both for capital investment and job creation . |
| 11 | Then plans for re-evangelisation through the planting of churches should be prayed through and published with every effort made to back the movement , rather than break its heart . |
| 12 | Presented with a diagram of the alimentary canal , he tended to marvel at its artistry rather than study its efficiency . |
| 13 | By the last decade of the eighteenth century there is evidence that the wider powers of the Church , even in rural England , were weakening rather than enhancing its spiritual authority . |
| 14 | Restoring confidence in London 's financial centre will be harder than fixing its bomb-damaged buildings |
| 15 | A trade union movement anxious to extend rather than limit its influence would seek to regain those functions that the state has stripped from it . |
| 16 | The reforms of the army consolidated the right wing within the army and increased its hostility to the republic rather than limit its powers . |
| 17 | My purpose has been to account for the rise and consolidation of amateurism rather than to catalogue its contemporary decline . |
| 18 | To compete with the more than 2,000 commercial banks which have sprung up in Russia since then , Sberbank has to do more than teach its staff to smile . |
| 19 | President Daniel arap Moi 's Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) has learnt to tread more softly , to ignore rather than lambast its opponents , and to appear at least to consider political reform . |
| 20 | In the general election the Labour Party made sweeping gains , more than doubling its share of the seats in the Dáil at the expense of Fianna Fáil , which won its lowest number of votes since the 1920s , and Fine Gael , which suffered its worst result since 1948 . |
| 21 | All depend in varying degrees on the analytical activities of conscious thought , but all would say with Thomas à Kempis : I had sooner feel compunction than know its definition . |
| 22 | Rather than having its own satellites , AFSAT uses transponders ( relay devices ) on several spacecraft of different types . |
| 23 | Such technology , properly used , would more than pay its way , coming into its own during the intensity of an election but maintaining its worth all year round in enabling swift and efficient communication between headquarters and members . |
| 24 | It often seems to Christians that the Christianity which has wrapped itself round the person of Jesus has served to obscure rather than communicate its raison d'être . |
| 25 | I detest the ‘ why ? ’ writ large by the critic and historian Francisco Calvo Serraller , defender of scruffy artists , who proposes that the benediction of ‘ Guernica ’ by the Opus Dei be delayed , thereby showing his rejection of those who take advantage of culture rather than advancing its cause . |
| 26 | The Government did very little , other than wring its hands and shuffle the responsibility off on to somebody else . |
| 27 | The West could do worse than to base its policy towards the Middle East on that aspiration . |
| 28 | In one case — I think it was in Warwickshire — a local authority , on reflection , revised its bid and decided to develop its relationship with housing associations rather than commit its allocation to its own project . |
| 29 | It has more than fulfilled its founding fathers ' two objectives : to rebuild the economy of a shattered Europe , and to bury the hatchet between France and Germany and so bind together the nations of Europe that they would never go to war again . |
| 30 | Eltec SA is keen to specialise in support services , forging alliances as and where necessary , rather than prolong its reputation as a transaction processing monitor firm . |