Example sentences of "than [v-ing] [art] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This works even when recipients are away from their desks providing their PC is left on — ‘ far more efficient than sticking a Post-It note on their screen , ’ Richard smiled . |
| 2 | So it looks like this particular First Lady will have more serious matters on her mind than re-decorating the White House like Jackie Kennedy had . |
| 3 | As you know , I have been wildly opposed to PEPs since their introduction , in part because I 'm a great believer in removing tax breaks rather than distorting the investment climate by introducing new ones . |
| 4 | That is what we seek to do , rather than adopting a defeatist attitude to the delivery of health care . |
| 5 | The new initiatives of the left made a start by identifying strategic sectors of the economy in which to intervene , rather than adopting a blanket approach to all firms in their area — but the problem was that the local authorities were still geographically limited . |
| 6 | There are few more cost-effective ways to invest relatively small sums of money than reinstating the support funding for tourism . |
| 7 | To the embarrassment of Verdeţ , it became clear that the strikers at Lupeni would settle for nothing less than meeting the Comrade face to face and putting their demands to him . |
| 8 | Having a sense of humour is probably more important than having a fishing rod amongst ‘ The Naver Nuts ’ . |
| 9 | On the other hand , the act of changing rather than continuing the use can of itself constitute ‘ development ’ ; this can be a very important consideration . |
| 10 | As can be seen from the sample tasks above , identifying the place value of a column was generally rather easier than giving the place value of a particular digit . |
| 11 | At the end of June 1862 , not long after Young Russia and the fires in St Petersburg — and immediately after an attempt on the life of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich — Valuev produced a paper on the internal condition of the empire in which he admitted the many difficulties under which the government was labouring but proposed no more than converting the State Council into a somewhat more representative body and bypassing the judicial system to deal with radicals more speedily . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's better to triumph in as many races as possible rather than winning the World Cup with a series of good placings , ’ said the Italian , who has 28 career wins . |
| 13 | As we emphasised in the opening chapter , church growth is far more than increasing the head count of those who profess to be Christians . |
| 14 | That rather than making a block grant for somebody because we know they do a good job , that we do more directly relate that to services they 're providing to us and output . |
| 15 | On 9 November , the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965 came into effect , suspending rather than abolishing the death penalty for those categories of murder that had been capital . |
| 16 | A staunch opponent of the European Community and Scottish devolution , he was often described as an independently minded MP who remained untamed by the whips , voting according to his conviction rather than following the party line on a number of issues . |