Example sentences of "than [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A happier fate than ending up in the cooking pot at Berkeley Castle . |
| 2 | Nor is it necessarily fatal if you give notice to terminate your contract and work that notice out , rather than walking out on the spot . |
| 3 | A good tight-fitting cap or hat is useful since there is nothing worse than groping about in the dark to recover a wind-blown hat . |
| 4 | She parked outside the high brick wall rather than driving on to the forecourt , and as if he sensed her reluctance to enter the house again he did n't attempt to invite her inside — but neither did he make any attempt to get out of the car , and they sat in silence in the light from an overhead street-lamp . |
| 5 | Hazel realized that until they were rested they would all be safer where they were than stumbling along in the open , with no strength left to run from an enemy . |
| 6 | When voices started rising and violence seemed inevitable , Kalchu told me that it would n't be resolved for hours and , rather than waiting around in the cold on the off-chance of getting some meat , we might as well set out for home . |
| 7 | Oh I might go to that fourteen quid , yeah it is cheap , than going up down the road . |
| 8 | I wanted to put that in , rather than going on about the deprivation and the tragedy of divorce and broken families . ’ |
| 9 | Do you think perhaps the problem is that , through no fault of their own , they spend far too much time in the police station doing other work perhaps , than going out on the beat ? |
| 10 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 11 | But there was more to it than coming out with the begging bowl because of a particular crisis . |
| 12 | It 's much better than standin' out on the cobbles like we used ter do . |
| 13 | These were films that had been grafted onto the Gaumont-British production programme , rather than emerging out of the script department as projects with potential that called for higher expenditure . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday . |
| 15 | Freud 's hypotheses are not upheld : if the child is father to the man it is for reasons other than missing out on the breast and a too early acquaintance with the potty . |