Example sentences of "than [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been much easier to give an overdraft than to go through the whole process of studying a plan for the business and coming up with longer term loan financing . |
| 2 | I would have expected Esquire to be a little more imaginative than to jump on the anti-Essex bandwagon and to realize that you do n't have to be brainless to live in Braintree . |
| 3 | Or , if they did , they knew better than to remonstrate with the grim-faced man behind her . |
| 4 | ‘ Now the good Lord knows better than to rain on the new Sandiford baby 's head . ’ |
| 5 | As I have a real a real concern that as soon as that happens er , er the sch stuff is , is if often just dumped on the side of the road and I suspect that 's more to do with commercial operators than , than to do with the private householders and it and it and it and it , it , it 's it does seem er to me that er , er that , that issue needs er needs to be addressed as well . |
| 6 | Nineteenth-century feminists did not demand measures to improve the status and conditions of wives and mothers other than to campaign for the equal right of married women to control their own property . |
| 7 | ‘ we are persuaded that , there being no authority to prevent us , it is preferable as a matter of justice to hold parties to their clearly expressed bargain rather than to introduce for the first time in 1971 an extension of a doctrine of land law so as to deny the efficacy of that bargain . |
| 8 | Much worse to begin too soon and reach the end too quickly , typed Goldberg , squinting at the manuscript before him , than to begin at the right time and reach the end too quickly . |
| 9 | Much worse to begin too soon and feel one has begun too soon than to begin at the right time and discover one has nothing to begin . |