Example sentences of "than [v-ing] [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The answer is to stand off and let him play in front of you , rather than wrestling his way round the back . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Better than enduring his fumbling during the night in the vain hope of satisfaction when the need was strong in her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Put on , on the bottom of the blank line , rather than putting it top of the total line . |