Example sentences of "than [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony did no more than repeat his run of the morning . |
| 2 | He loves driving , rather than seeing his car as a way of getting him from A to B , and sees his car as a status symbol , and means to power and freedom . |
| 3 | Medical research company Medirace , which is trying to develop a drug to treat cancer and Aids , is more than tripling its size through an £87million takeover . |
| 4 | Dr Scott , from long experience , did no more than wrinkle his nose at the odour of decay , and spent twenty minutes there , mostly occupied with a careful consideration of the head . |
| 5 | In elections to the Landtag ( provincial parliament ) in Upper Austria on Oct. 6 the extreme right Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) more than tripled its share of the vote , winning 17.7 per cent ( 5 per cent in the last Upper Austria provincial elections in 1985 — see p. 34110 ) and 11 seats ( three hitherto ) . |
| 6 | The theory of the second-best says that it is allocatively more efficient to spread inevitable distortions thinly over many markets than to concentrate their effects in a few markets . |
| 7 | Electoral studies of the period show that an increasing number of people were making their support for one or other of the main parties conditional upon the calculation of ‘ rational self-interest ’ or ‘ governmental competence ’ , rather than basing their voting upon a ‘ class reflex ’ . |
| 8 | We did little planning other than booking our accommodation in a chain of well positioned youth hostels , but the holiday was memorable . |
| 9 | One is led to conclude from all this that despite some tactical ‘ victories ’ here and there , the British point of view with respect to policy in the EEC has not on the whole prevailed , any more than has its influence over the development of the institutional framework of the Community . |
| 10 | It is much better to evaluate information needs and establish information flows in advance of the decision-making process than to discover their omission at a later stage . |
| 11 | Over all , you 'd have fared much better than keeping your money in a bank or building society . |
| 12 | ‘ The answer is to stand off and let him play in front of you , rather than wrestling his way round the back . ’ |
| 13 | My father was still forced from time to time to act as an interpreter , but from now on he spent much more time at home , rather than meeting his friends in the cafés for a game of cards . |
| 14 | Better than enduring his fumbling during the night in the vain hope of satisfaction when the need was strong in her . |
| 15 | If you prefer to select your own meals , rather than follow our suggestion for the day , you will find selections of breakfasts , salads and snacks to choose from , with precise calorie values for each , on pages 99–100 , and main meal recipes at the end of Stage I and each week of Stage II . |
| 16 | Rather than use his apartment as an extension of the office , Milton did things the other way round . |
| 17 | An occasional application of lindane at a concentration of 2 per cent to kill headlice is certainly likely to be more effective than breaking their legs with a nit comb and avoids the discomfort of literally feeling lousy . |
| 18 | The salt itself , even at high dose ( 5% ) in my experience , has little effect on the flukes other than to weaken their hold on the fish . |
| 19 | Linking hands , they whispered their love for one another , and although they were kept physically apart by those old granite stones , they were in another sense brought close together by them , for it is curiously easier to give your heart away through a hole in the wall than to swear your fidelity between the sheets of a feather bed . |
| 20 | In the general election the Labour Party made sweeping gains , more than doubling its share of the seats in the Dáil at the expense of Fianna Fáil , which won its lowest number of votes since the 1920s , and Fine Gael , which suffered its worst result since 1948 . |
| 21 | We consulted the acknowledged experts in the field , many of whom were not known to the general public ; and for the most part we did little more than synthesise their conclusions in a readily digestible fashion . |
| 22 | So do n't come to me offering shares , because I 'd rather die a pauper than soil my hands with the blood that 's on your money , and there 's the truth o n't . |
| 23 | The West could do worse than to base its policy towards the Middle East on that aspiration . |
| 24 | Eltec SA is keen to specialise in support services , forging alliances as and where necessary , rather than prolong its reputation as a transaction processing monitor firm . |
| 25 | Who would not rather own to theft and deception within the Church 's writ , rather than put his neck into the sheriff 's noose for murder ? |
| 26 | So there 'd be something rather odd about people voting out of moral motivation for a utilitarian because they would be voting their estimate of where the general happiness lies , rather than putting their input into the sum from which someone else can calculate where the general happiness lies . |
| 27 | Put on , on the bottom of the blank line , rather than putting it top of the total line . |
| 28 | She could feel Maggie 's distress ; Maggie needed more than to have her care about the house . |
| 29 | We can not settle the theory of life histories because we can not be sure whether cave organisms put more effort into reproduction than do their relatives at the surface ; nor can we be sure whether they have reduced metabolic rates , which makes it difficult to sort out the question of adaptation . |
| 30 | Certainly , the majority of today 's cars need far less skill to drive quickly than did their predecessors of the sixties and early seventies . |