Example sentences of "than [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This works even when recipients are away from their desks providing their PC is left on — ‘ far more efficient than sticking a Post-It note on their screen , ’ Richard smiled . |
| 2 | There are few simpler things than cooking a salmon . |
| 3 | It 's better this than wasting a load of money that carpets we 're gon na bin anyway |
| 4 | Peter began by saying he had decided to use his spare time for research rather than editing a new series . |
| 5 | Is Labour still reflecting the ideals of the past rather than organizing a response to the problems of the future ? |
| 6 | Rather than proving an insoluble methodological problem , these contradictions are , in fact , a key finding in the research . |
| 7 | This is usually more valuable than generating an allowable loss for capital gains tax purposes . |
| 8 | However , rather than realising a £17m loss , Tootal 's figures show a £3.4m profit , with most of the difference written off earlier through the balance sheet . |
| 9 | As table 3 shows , the key legal services used by businesses tend to be the sort that are need-driven — litigation , commercial property and employee legislation — rather than reflecting a broader and continuous relationship . |
| 10 | Naïve , that 's what he was always calling me — that or juvenile , and you ca n't get more juvenile or naïve than allowing a man like Luke Denner to seduce you and then half hoping , almost believing in the fantasy that somehow you might actually mean something to him ! ’ |
| 11 | Rather than suggesting a different incentive system , which would enable the agency to maintain at least some timber harvesting in many of the forests on the list , the agency is deliberately limiting its options . |
| 12 | But the minister 's little joke reflects a suspicion among many in social services that going ‘ over there ’ is less about learning than enjoying a jaunt . |
| 13 | There is nothing more dispiriting , he says , than seeing a young doctor who has spent years on a project and has no thesis to show at the end of it because the project was ill-considered and ill-supervised . |
| 14 | It is a wonderful thing to see , and somehow gives you a greater thrill than seeing a conventional float slide under the surface . |
| 15 | There was nothing he enjoyed more than seeing a couple of his subordinates at each other 's throats . |
| 16 | It had been much more exciting than seeing a weka for the first time . |
| 17 | There are few sights more thrilling than seeing a Harrier jump jet being put through its paces . |
| 18 | There 's no better entertainment than seeing a bunch of over-paid , pampered prima donnas getting their comeuppance . |
| 19 | Rather than inventing a unique fictional world , it creates a recognisable reality that calls for accuracy . |
| 20 | Rather than producing a brave new economic world , the ECSC and its High Authority had constantly to wrestle with national objections and intransigence . |
| 21 | In some schools , at any rate , this seems to have performed a rhetorical function in conforming to the guidelines , rather than producing a realistic statement of an established and developing provision . |
| 22 | Keeping him in quarantine is much wiser than producing a situation in which you might put Iran back in control of the Gulf , after eight years in which the whole of the outside world , including the Soviet Union and the US , built up this great military monster in Iraq , in order to prevent Iran from running the Gulf . |
| 23 | just as when reading a favourite novel , we create the people and places described as we see them , so we draw on our own images and imagination to enrich our inner world , rather than accepting an unknown intruder — the voice on the tape . |
| 24 | Both must be considered useful for nothing more than maintaining a battery 's charge . |
| 25 | In 1987 the Community agreed to a package of measures which will create greater fare competition , will allow the airlines to increase market shares at each other 's expense ( rather than maintaining a rigid fifty/fifty split ) and will allow other airlines ( both from the bilateral partners and from other states ) to ply for trade on particular routes . |
| 26 | It is a burden that Russia could do without , but at least it is far cheaper than maintaining an army of occupation in what Richard III might have called the very long winter of discontent . |
| 27 | A mikva is central to the setting up of a Jewish community , and building a mikva is even more of a priority than building a synagogue . |
| 28 | Back in November , Mr Bush got a rude shock when his ‘ Energy Strategy ’ ( which amounted to little more than building a few more nuclear reactors and opening up every remaining square inch of Alaska to further oil exploration ) got kicked out by the Senate . |
| 29 | The idea of tailoring spreadsheet functions exactly to your specific requirements is much more attractive than building a cumbersome series of macros . |
| 30 | Will he use this opportunity to ask British Steel to consider modernising the Dalzell plate mill in Motherwell rather than building an expensive new plate mill , which would be less profitable for British Steel ? |