Example sentences of "than [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Mira , it seems , is walking in the landscape rather than looking at it from a height :
2 Keep your exercises plain and simple , and you have a better chance of enjoying them , rather than looking on them as a burden .
3 In writing for others they will learn that writing for a public audience requires more care to be taken with the finished product than writing for oneself as an aid to memory .
4 So horrid as it all is , it 's not that much worse than reading about it in the newspapers .
5 Telephoning the elderly who live alone needs even more care and tact than talking with them in the course of a visit .
6 ‘ But … we ca n't take your bed , ’ objected Isabel faintly , although she wondered why the thought of sleeping in a bed with fitzAlan seemed worse than sleeping with him on a bench .
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