Example sentences of "[adv] than [v-ing] [pers pn] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two and a half years ago the Home Office introduced the Caution scheme , encouraging police to use their discretion to give some young offenders a warning , rather than sending them to court . |
| 2 | Enhancements to Gemstone include improved cache functions , which enable temporary objects to be held in memory rather than writing them to disk ; disk clustering , and reduced object identification size . |
| 3 | This involves a willingness to acknowledge that co-operation can be difficult and that mistakes will occur , and a commitment to making the solving of problems a priority , rather than allowing them to fester . |
| 4 | That the girls might be unaware of the camera rather than seducing it to death . |
| 5 | In those days , if you were ill in England , the doctor visited you , rather than expecting you to stagger to the surgery . |
| 6 | But Whitehall should contract out as much as possible of this research to industry itself rather than giving it to government establishments . |