Example sentences of "than [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , ‘ vocational ’ training was regarded more as a means of making prisoners work hard than of training them for a task to which they were individually suited . |
| 2 | A drink problem is less to do with enjoying alcohol than with using it as a means of coping with pressures of various kinds . |
| 3 | He had borrowed a car from one of his colleagues , and he felt hot , sweaty and uncertain of himself , having had to spend more time mastering the crate 's uncertain ways than in preparing himself for the meeting to come . |
| 4 | De Gaulle was more interested in exploiting the process of change ( in the interests of France and of his regime ) than in forcing it to a fixed end-point . |
| 5 | The answer is to unwind some of the absurdities of the intervention system which mean that far too much money is devoted to financing the depreciation of beef rather than to putting it on the table . |
| 6 | After a hard day chasing rabbits and catching sticks , what better way to relax than by treating yourself to an aromatherapy massage . |
| 7 | But you can not sense radiation in any other way than by measuring it with a sensitive instrument . |