Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He chooses to tap his fag packet round and round on the tabletop again rather than speak to me , so I say , ‘ Well , I 'm not sure about that , but it 's certainly somebody who knows me ; I mean , I think that card with my writing on it proves that . |
| 2 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 3 | As fig. 5.12 shows , these subjects learned the test more readily than did control subjects that were trained on the same task but had received initial Pavlovian training in which the tone and clicker were uncorrelated with reinforcer type . |
| 4 | The planet Mercury orbits the Sun more closely than do any of the others . |
| 5 | A hydrogen atom ( a ) is invaded by a muon , μ - ; ( b ) which orbits the proton more closely than does the electron . |
| 6 | ‘ It is an invitation to hoof the ball forward rather than use the goalkeeper to play the ball from the back , as Tottenham prefer to do . ’ |
| 7 | The young man lying there was short of stature , blond , and though he had been in the ground much longer than Erceldoun the body , though swollen and green-tinged , had hardly begun to decompose . |
| 8 | Well a cup of whatsername stuff I poured down the sink upstairs rather than get it kicked over because if they come back in a silly state then they 'll knock it all over books . |
| 9 | No group in society , however , symbolized the alienation of key institutions from the government more clearly than did the university teachers . |
| 10 | He must be careful that the new rules he lays down fit well enough with rules established by others or likely to be established in the future that the total set of rules will work together and make the situation better rather than pulling in opposite directions and making it worse . |
| 11 | Was it not a benefit to him to have the crew sail the ship home rather than abandon him and it in a foreign port ? |
| 12 | The transport is also better , with the airport considerably closer than say it would have been in Manchester . |
| 13 | Well he does open , there 's no not many players can play a team better like than opening up |
| 14 | It may be painful , but a lot less so than failing miserably when your presentation ‘ goes live ’ . |
| 15 | You may well , in the circumstances , be willing to take a step backwards rather than lose your job . |