Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm very surprised your attitude is that we should cover it up and hide it away rather than try and elucidate its value for science . |
| 2 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 3 | While I was n't exactly happy about this , it was interesting to see what happened ; the tip of the Plexaurelia branch which had landed in the mushroom polyps developed blister-like clear vesicles , the whole animal kept inflating and deflating itself more frequently than usual , and after about a week collapsed completely . |
| 4 | Use a variety and put it in more than one spot , if you have space , to allow more birds to feed at one time . |
| 5 | If you press a key and hold it down rather than just tapping it , you will type the same character again and again ; or , if you are deleting text , you may delete more than you meant to — so keep your touch light . |
| 6 | It was nothing really , nothing at all , yet it devastated me and affected me more profoundly than any previous or subsequent event . |
| 7 | I do not want to play games in colour on my TV , I can do household accounts with a piece of paper and a pencil , I can learn languages easier from a book and a tape recorder , if I want information I can look it up and read it far faster than I can get it from a screen and I can turn back with a nip of the finger and read it again . |
| 8 | They would be drawn into the system which mulcted them and bullied them more completely than ever . |
| 9 | Once given those powers they must be seen to exercise them , and to exercise them impartially rather than idiosyncratically . |
| 10 | The terms ‘ stiff-necked ’ , ‘ tight-lipped ’ , ‘ pain in the neck ’ and so on are part of common everyday usage , and indicate something rather deeper than a simple muscle tension problem . |
| 11 | She had seen his point of view and expressed it even better than he did . |
| 12 | But contraceptive techniques were improving throughout this time and successive marriage cohorts were more likely to use contraception ( table 4.2 ) and use it more effectively than before ( Rowntree and Pierce 1961 , Langford 1976 , Cartwright 1978 , Dunnell 1979 ) . |
| 13 | And do it now rather than them pounce on you later and accuse you of hidin' her . |
| 14 | Most of the information I 've got is about residential homes and that is because Social Work Services Group is an awful lot better at pulling together statistics and putting them out again than the Scottish Home and Health Department . |
| 15 | She poured us both a generous tot , and drank hers rather faster than liqueurs are normally drunk , then gasped and blinked as sudden tears started to her eyes . |
| 16 | They come in and follow it up rather than preventing it . |