Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] [adv] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presidents , on the other hand , can rarely issue plausible , self-executing commands ; for the most part they must persuade rather than order other political actors to do what they want them to do . |
| 2 | Despite the controversy it is becoming increasingly clear that there is no real ground for argument between hospital and community care and that they should complement rather than rival one another . |
| 3 | As ambassador he tried , without overwhelming success , to convince radical Iranian students the at they should support rather than demonstrate against the Shah . |
| 4 | Quiss felt his eyes start to smart in the fume-laden atmosphere , and as he peered through the grey , yellow and brown clouds of rising steam and smoke , thought of suggesting to the seneschal — if he ever found him — that he somehow persuade the scullions powering these airwheels that they should run rather than walk . |
| 5 | The trip awakened many boyhood memories , and Warnie remarked that they might do worse than spend their declining years there . |
| 6 | Executive Trevor East said : ‘ When you add fees for overseas television rights , plus their gates and advertising sponsorship , you would have to think they could have more than doubled the figure we offered . |
| 7 | A variety of wording is used and it is difficult to be certain how such clauses will be interpreted ; but the change in judicial attitudes just noted would suggest that they will fare better than did the clause in Anisminic . |