Example sentences of "be [adj] than [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gestures of solidarity with Lithuania are easier than finding a solution to the issue of Czech-Slovak relations . |
| 2 | Of course now it 's warm enough to start getting out in the garden , what could be better than to take a selection of water toys to play with in the paddling pool outside ? |
| 3 | ‘ It ca n't be harder than stealing a truck , ’ said Masklin . |
| 4 | Nothing is easier than to obey a master who is perhaps exacting , but who rules over all details of life , assures one 's daily bread , and makes it possible to banish all concern from the mind . |
| 5 | erm Somebody on this morning 's course said that they quite like answering machines , they use them like note pads , and they ring up people they know have got an answering machine so they can just leave a message , they say it 's quicker than writing a letter , and it 's easier than talking to them for hours , you can just ring them up and leave a message on their answering machine like a sort of note pad , which I had n't thought of , but I suppose it 's rather good , is n't it ! |
| 6 | Sometimes it 's quicker than buyin' a pack of fags in the pub . ’ |
| 7 | it 's better than throwing a lot of stuff away . |
| 8 | It 's better than getting a locum in — they cost the earth and sometimes do more harm than good . |
| 9 | Well it 's better than spending a lot of money |
| 10 | Consider the following sentence : ( 21 ) Getting married and having a child is better than having a child and getting married Good arguments will be given in Chapter 3 to suggest that the word and of itself does not mean ( have the semantic content ) " and then " , but is neutral with respect to a temporal dimension . |
| 11 | I think that 's worse than having a filling . |
| 12 | Facing the dragon of the left corridor was better than facing a typewriting ghost ! |
| 13 | ‘ I was sitting there one day trying to think what was better than climbing a mountain — and suddenly it hit me … climbing two ! ’ he says . |
| 14 | He was getting quite practised now , and it was faster than using a key . |