Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv] [adv] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided it was a good idea to write things down rather than depending on the tape because erm I 'm not actually going to get round to transcribing the tape quickly enough to use it as minutes . |
| 2 | Most of us have tendencies to pass information outwards rather than to allow it inwards . |
| 3 | They would analyze racism now rather than fire an egg at a racist . |
| 4 | And I 'd rather use newspaper now rather than use use erm |
| 5 | Studies on the effects of medical healing of oesophagitis suffer from the drawbacks of small numbers and the fact that some of them have included in their analysis patients who showed improvement in rather than complete healing of oesophagitis . |
| 6 | This in turn leads to their ‘ going by the book ’ , their sense of power stemming from their ability to hold things up rather than get things done . |
| 7 | ‘ But I only stuck that for a couple of weeks , ’ he says , ‘ for I was playing guitar at a party one night in Cleveland , Ohio , and he said there were easier ways of making money out there than working the building sites . |
| 8 | On the menu bar are Search for finding articles quickly rather than scrolling manually through the word list , View to find photographs , videos , maps and magazine covers and Mark for marking a place in an article and making notes . |
| 9 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 10 | In the study carried out by Blackmore she found that a cotton towel removed bacteria more efficiently than did paper towels but concluded that both types of towel were far superior to warm air drying methods . |
| 11 | Another complicating factor ( Raczynski & Ruprecht , 1974 ) is that immature predators digest prey more thoroughly than do adults . |
| 12 | It is much better to step in and help people firmly rather than having to punish them at a later stage . |
| 13 | The two venues held exhibitions simultaneously rather than touring the show . |