Example sentences of "than [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's better this than wasting a load of money that carpets we 're gon na bin anyway |
| 2 | Indeed , the initial experiences of the ECSC had led some to argue that rather than pursue a sector by sector strategy , it would be far easier and more logical to plan for the integration of whole economies . |
| 3 | Perhaps he is a merry , convivial sort of fellow in private life , who likes nothing more than to crack a bottle of wine with his friends when there is no possibility of having to drive a motor-car afterwards . |
| 4 | Rather than identify a point in time when some separation was effected , it is more constructive to locate successive shifts in the degree of subordination and the grounds of differentiation . |
| 5 | Most people do not realize that Jews can pray together without a rabbi , and that the rabbi 's job is often to clarify a point of law or resolve a dispute , rather than to lead a congregation in prayer . |
| 6 | Yet rather than forming a point between structure and agency , perhaps the role of community groups could be better represented in terms of a continuum between civil society and the state . |
| 7 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 8 | Like Eddie Bleasdale , Xionics 's chairman , Mike Bevan , is keen that his firm should concentrate on new products , rather than spend a lot of time setting up mechanisms for producing and selling goods in massive numbers . |
| 9 | Until recently the arts have placed too much emphasis on educating non-disabled people rather than providing a medium for communication with each other . |
| 10 | However , the tally of six underestimates the total effect because some MPs unsympathetic to Left-wing ideas may have decided to retire a little early rather than face a battle for re-adoption . |
| 11 | In the final analysis the need for a swift response to an immediate housing shortage after the war painted almost inevitably to a large-scale local authority housing programme , rather than face a period of delay while housing associations were geared up to the task . |
| 12 | these proposals we regard as doing no more than initiating a programme of family welfare which will have to be kept under continuous review and modified and expanded in the light of experience and deeper knowledge . |
| 13 | ‘ I think there 's nothing more therapeutic than sharing a glass of champagne . ’ |
| 14 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 15 | Perhaps still smarting from his lowly position and lack of respect in Yenan 30 years before , he publicly condemned Deng as arrogant and dangerously ambitious : ‘ To discuss with Deng Xiaoping as equals is more difficult than to put a ladder against heaven . ’ |
| 16 | The Universe would therefore have an infinite extent in all four dimensions of spacetime ; it would always have existed , rather than having a moment of birth . |
| 17 | Well it 's better than spending a lot of money |
| 18 | Discretion 's the better part of valour now and you would be wiser to keep your thoughts to yourself rather than risk a confrontation at work or home . |
| 19 | Students are taught , for instance , to ‘ read ’ in a different way from that of everyday practice : rather than reading a text from beginning to end in the sequence in which the publisher has ordered it , they are urged to select what they want for particular purposes from different parts of the text , using the contents page , index , chapter headings etc. and moving backwards and forwards within that text and to other texts . |
| 20 | Through their involvement , rather than creating a platform for development , people were letting the government off the hook by attempting to find superficial and limited solutions to deep-rooted structural problems . |
| 21 | There is no more effective means for long term evangelism than preparing a team in relationship with a leader , moving in , and planting a church ! |
| 22 | Everyone agreed that investiture by lay rulers conferred no spiritual power : it did no more than put a prelate in possession of the rights , lands , and secular dignities of his new office . |
| 23 | Since the enactment of s 459 1985 , it has been regarded as a better remedy for a minority affected by prejudice in a company to ask for a share purchase order under s 461 rather than to seek a return of share capital through a winding-up petition which results in the liquidation of a solvent company ( a member can not petition under s 122(1) ( g ) if the company is insolvent because he has no interest ) . |
| 24 | it 's better than throwing a lot of stuff away . |
| 25 | While I ca n't say I actually enjoyed the experience — as usual , two shirts flaked me out and put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day — I did find the whole process a whole lot easier on the nerves than throwing a glass of water across a shirt in the hope that somehow the creases , along with the water , would eventually evaporate . |
| 26 | The circumstances of Japan 's opening to the West thus seemed calculated to reinforce rather than diminish a sense of separateness and need for security in the face of manifestly unequal treatment . |
| 27 | Of course now it 's warm enough to start getting out in the garden , what could be better than to take a selection of water toys to play with in the paddling pool outside ? |
| 28 | BRITAIN has broken a vital barrier in developing computers that recognise continuous speech rather than needing a keyboard to type in information . |
| 29 | in art , and you go for art by visual means , rather than say a piece of music and subject . |
| 30 | Roosevelt objected to these rules , which limited his powers in foreign policy , but he accepted them rather than have a battle with Congress . |