Example sentences of "[adv] than [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better than finding them in a flap and fearing higher rates , as they were a week ago . |
| 2 | If you like hanging out washing rather than drying it in the bowels of an expensive machine , you will need to tuck away a line and make a dry path to get to and from it . |
| 3 | I keep everything loose in glass jars ( you can wash and save any that you buy ) , which prolongs their life , rather than leaving them in the packets . |
| 4 | Rather than write them in the book , just put the answers down either on a on a piece of paper . |
| 5 | This position is not heterodox so far as relinquo ( or , as it is here expressed , dimitto ) is concerned : Section i argued that the problem with it is precisely that it attributes property directly to a beneficiary rather than vesting it in a trustee . |
| 6 | Sir Harold left his collection to the Corporation of the City of London , but rather than include them in the Guildhall Art Gallery , he left instructions that , due to the fact that he believed his pictures looked best in domestic surroundings , the pictures be installed in the Lord Mayor 's residence , where , unfortunately , they will mostly be inaccessible to the public . |
| 7 | Pershing II , which dives steeply onto its target rather than hitting it in a shallow trajectory can carry a special ‘ earth-penetrator ’ warhead that will bore through soil to attack underground bunkers . |
| 8 | It should be remembered that in this chapter we are dealing only with stress within the word ; this means that we are looking at words as they are said in isolation , which is a rather artificial situation — we do not often say words in isolation , except for a few such as ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ , ‘ possibly ’ , ‘ please ’ and interrogative words such as ‘ what ’ , ‘ who ’ , etc. , but looking at words in isolation does help us to see stress placement and stress levels more clearly than studying them in the context of continuous speech . |