Example sentences of "[adv] than [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew better than to leave that behind . |
| 2 | Hedonists seeking the perfect golfing weekend could do no better than tackle these two majestic courses , using the Thorpeness Club Hotel as a base . |
| 3 | The men of Ring 's Amusements still worked in Sir Walter Raleigh Park , but the Dynmouth Hards knew better than to engage these men in any form of combat . |
| 4 | But I knew better than to broadcast those ideas around school . |
| 5 | ‘ You ought to know better than to ask that . |
| 6 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
| 7 | Well , better than getting half every time , in n it ? |
| 8 | Beryl meant that Adam had been among the previous owners of Wyvis Hall while her husband had not , but she knew better than to point this out . |
| 9 | The hard-bitten men round the table knew better than to make that mistake . |
| 10 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
| 11 | He was mortally disappointed when it was officially declared an accident and there 's nothing he 'd like better than to find some excuse to start ferreting round and upsetting everyone with his ‘ interrogations ’ . ’ |
| 12 | On the other hand there 's a certain inertia principle operating , it is always easier for an administration to do less than to do more in dealing with the Middle East , and especially with the central Palestine problem . |
| 13 | Rather than eliminate any further jobs on top of the 1,000 that the company has budgeted to shed this year , IBM UK Ltd chief executive Nick Temple is expected to ask senior staffers to bear some of the pain and accept pay reductions — and it could happen : Temple has been telling anyone who will listen that if IBM UK makes a penny profit this year , it will be the most amazing turnround in corporate history . |
| 14 | VSAM uses a modified form of B-tree , so that the number of keys and pointers is the same , and index entries are greater than or equal to the keys pointed to rather than taking some intermediate value . |
| 15 | Up to and including the 1988 social security changes , the basic policy response to the growing numbers of lone-parent families has been to add to or modify the existing system of benefits rather than make any fundamental changes . |
| 16 | I say metamorphosing because it is our firm intention to continue the natural development process which has been going on in recent years , rather than make any radical changes just because we are now a university . |
| 17 | To understand and enjoy Versailles , several days are necessary : rather than make several trips from a Paris base itself , it is better to stay in the town . |
| 18 | Rather than face this , they would sooner crush and kill — in the danger , there is pathos , as Havel has the humanity to see . ’ |
| 19 | When I lost a temporary job in a local Traffic Office , I packed my things rather than face another bleak winter and with seven shillings and sixpence in my pocket I went to some friends in south-east London . |
| 20 | Sean wished that he had gone down to Birdie Mac 's and knocked on the door for a bar of Kit-Kat , anything rather than face these two . |
| 21 | At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats . |
| 22 | But rather than offer more praise , we would like to offer something else . |
| 23 | Rather than swallow any more of what to him was the worst kind of mealy-mouthed claptrap , he gave up the vital therapy of letter writing and lapsed into total silence . |
| 24 | As it was , however , the US was slowly , and not too slowly , getting itself into a position where its responsibilities tended to supplant rather than complement those of the French : and this was something which at least had to be offset against all the delays that would ensue in European rearmament . |
| 25 | ‘ I want to see more of that , ’ said Allan , ‘ People looking for an answer from TOP first , rather than trying some other way and only using the philosophy as a last resort . |
| 26 | To do the project justice and allow time for the respondents ' concerns to be dealt with , this amount of time is required rather than sending all surveys out in one block . |
| 27 | Rather than copy this ‘ accidental ’ compound radius , Fender have chosen to equip the reissue with a simple 12″ radius board and .098″ wide medium jumbo frets — big , but not as big as the .110″ wide ‘ jumbo bass frets ’ referred to by the man himself . |
| 28 | One explanation for this might be that , rather than using this method to bring in temporary labour , service establishments with a predominantly low skilled labour force rely on casual workers . |
| 29 | With their lack of English they were unable to explain why they chose to go hungry rather than eat such a choice dish . |
| 30 | Mr. Allen : Will the Hon. Gentleman consider using some of the time of those operators for the installation of a fax machine which could be used collectively by right Hon. and Hon. Members rather than duplicating many times a facility that could be provided and serviced by one additional member of staff , or even by current members of stall ? |