Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] than [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prince Bernhard had said no such thing , but Sharpe had decided it would be more efficacious to assign the opinion to the prince than to confess that it was his own view . |
| 2 | This is partly philanthropic and partly economic — it may cost more to process the bill and collect the money than to write off the charge ! |
| 3 | But as a suggestion it seems rather to name the difficulty than to solve it : which false beliefs are to be counted as relevant ? |
| 4 | It was , she discovered , easier to look the part than to feel it . |
| 5 | These measures were more for the maintenance of the industry than to save whales . |
| 6 | Because information technology is new and exciting , its proponents naturally exaggerate the cultural role it will take But do they really believe that we shall have nothing better to do in the future than to sit in front of a screen for hours , plugging into Which ? , mail-order catalogues , and the index to Chemical Abstracts ? |
| 7 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 8 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 9 | It will nearly always be easier subsequently to reach agreement to extend the partnership than to persuade an elderly partner to stand down voluntarily before the contractual date : hence the relative unpopularity of agreements which simply permit a partner at his option to retire upon reaching a certain age . |
| 10 | To hold that a procedure is unfair involves a less apparent interference with the administration than to hold that the actual decision was unreasonable . |
| 11 | But even so , it was far easier to set out a project for the Council than to implement it . |
| 12 | There may be instances when the systematic abuse of conflict of interest situations will be tolerated on the basis that it is more efficient to permit the abuse than to have it eradicated . |
| 13 | Parliament , recognising the danger — perhaps more to respect for the law than to press freedom — changed the law , so that now the very fact of a conviction is deemed to be conclusive evidence of its correctness . |
| 14 | There is nothing more tedious for the teacher than to hear one of his best students saying , after the examination : ‘ Oh , I did very well , but I only had time to answer half the paper . ’ |
| 15 | Boulders flung against the cliff by the waves are much more likely to knock off projecting corners and become themselves rounded in the process than to dislodge rock masses . |
| 16 | It is , indeed , a great deal easier to point out the irrelevance of much of what is happening at the moment than to have confidence in any particular alternative . |
| 17 | One therefore gets trapped into a situation where it appears much easier to carry on in the business than to divest , or move out . |
| 18 | ‘ There is no surer way of destroying the recovery than to run indefinitely into debt . ’ |
| 19 | And what nicer way to round off the evening than to have a quiet nightcap on the terrace with new-found friends , or take a gentle moonlit stroll along the beach . |
| 20 | It makes good business sense in another way too — because it is now cheaper to make plants that fit the pesticide than to adapt the pesticide to fit the plants . |
| 21 | It was safer for them to have one old woman occupying part of the place than to leave it empty and risk a group of drifters moving in . |
| 22 | Obviously , water sources need to be protected — although sometimes it will be cheaper to purify the water than to clean the filth that pollutes it . |
| 23 | What better way for the hired hand to disprove the notion than to dispense with writers and stagers entirely ? |
| 24 | Linking hands , they whispered their love for one another , and although they were kept physically apart by those old granite stones , they were in another sense brought close together by them , for it is curiously easier to give your heart away through a hole in the wall than to swear your fidelity between the sheets of a feather bed . |
| 25 | It was better to stand out at the beginning than to go in with the expectation that he would soon have to provoke a further crisis by resignation . |
| 26 | OMG figures it was easier for Next to join the organisation than to continue to explain why it was n't a member . |
| 27 | It 's faster to read data from the cache than to load it from the hard disk . |
| 28 | That 's all right — it is better to disperse the feeling than to let it build up . |
| 29 | However , as Alexander ( 1982a , p. 158 ) observes , ‘ The creation of this body was announced ’ in a way which ‘ suggested that the council was intended more to facilitate central control of the economy than to increase local government 's capacity to protect its position and to maximise its influence on the government and on individual departments ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ It is more/less effective to employ experienced teachers at the top of the scale than to employ a larger number of less experienced teachers . ’ |