Example sentences of "[adv] than [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew better than to leave that behind . |
| 2 | ‘ You ought to know better than to ask that . |
| 3 | The hard-bitten men round the table knew better than to make that mistake . |
| 4 | The tenor of the above letter seems to endorse rather than diminish that inference — Ed . |
| 5 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | I would er agree actually with what I think Mr was a saying on balance , that 's it 's best to go with the bit that you 've got rather than hold that up to , to er to come back to Road later . |
| 7 | Erm yeah , when er rather than saying that something is a heavy mass and it move and it 's got a good acceleration you can just say it 's got good . |
| 8 | Accordingly , rather than declaring that question ( 4 ) in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) has become otiose , I propose that the court should answer it in the negative . |
| 9 | Well I think you should get dressed rather than do that . |
| 10 | But in Britain we equate acknowledging man 's need for instant sex with approving of it , and rather than have that levelled at us , we reject the idea of licensed brothels . |
| 11 | Rather than have that happen she would take her chances on the boat . |
| 12 | Where the person ‘ is not in a position to express a view , the least unsatisfactory test is to ask what one would choose for oneself : would I choose death rather than have that sort of life ? ’ |
| 13 | In this respect , many of us in fact reform and bend English to our needs rather than allow that language to impose itself on our realities . |
| 14 | How often are they raised by adding on a small , discrete area to existing topics ( for example , ‘ Women in … ’ ) — thereby leaving the rest untouched — rather than acknowledging that feminism has generated a challenge to the whole field ? ( see BSA , 1986 , for a discussion of teaching in higher education ) . |
| 15 | You know , sooner than do that . |
| 16 | In 1944 , Bryn Weare more than repaid that debt by fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Resistance and he 's proud to repay it once more in 1992 . |
| 17 | Whereas a consumer using electricity only for lighting , an iron , a radio and a vacuum cleaner might use under 300kWh a year , the addition of one heavy current-using appliance like an immersion water heater or a cooker would more than quadruple that basic demand . |
| 18 | Edward III 's ecclesiastical patronage in the first twenty-five years of his reign was more than treble that of Edward I ( in thirty-five years ) and double Edward II 's ( in twenty-five years ) : the comparative figures , revealed by the researches of Dr Saunders , are 919 ( Edward I ) , 1419 ( Edward II ) and 3182 ( 1327–52 ) . |
| 19 | Better to go on as before than do that . |
| 20 | I tell you , I 'd rather go without than have that lot screw me . |
| 21 | I 'd sooner have summat else than use that . |