Example sentences of "[noun sg] than [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the wholesale destruction of Youth be considered a saner method for world betterment than training the Boy , ’ he added as the bitterness showed through , ‘ then the club movement will not press its claim . ’ |
| 2 | On the other hand , my opinion is that , efficacious though it proved to be , there are better methods of inducing scepticism than applying a hard rubber , wielded in the sleeve of a gown , at high speed to the side of the head . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He looked like a man with nothing more on this mind than reaching the bar on the far side of the room — and yet she could feel a tension in the muscle of his arm , see it in the set of his mouth . |
| 5 | I said from the outset that , in the eyes of the TCCB , the MCC and the International Cricket Council , the gouging of a cricket ball is a lesser crime than rocking the boat . |
| 6 | I can think of nothing more damaging to law and order in the metropolis than having the hon. Gentleman as chairman of such an authority . |
| 7 | It may be difficult to explain why a few minutes spent reading fourteen lines of Shakespeare should be a higher pleasure than reading an equivalent length of a James Bond story , but the analyses of literary criticism elucidate how in the former case one is living those few minutes in intensified awareness with an extraordinarily extended span , from the texture of the words sounding in one 's inner ear to the remotest implications for the living of one 's whole life . |
| 8 | In the treaties with the States-General of 1654 and 1667 the English government succeeded in having its claims accepted by its rival ; and so sensible a man as Sir William Temple felt that nothing had ever given him greater pleasure than forcing the Dutch to give way once more on this point in the peace negotiations of 1674 . |
| 9 | A greater difficulty than finding the finance may lie in persuading old hands of the value of such opportunities for learning . |
| 10 | A follow-up study showed that very few of them ever had any higher ambition for using the money than buying a house or two for the family and perhaps a shop or pub . |
| 11 | There are few more cost-effective ways to invest relatively small sums of money than reinstating the support funding for tourism . |
| 12 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 13 | The first navigation of the Straits of Magellan was a far more difficult problem of seamanship than crossing the Atlantic … |
| 14 | This is obviously a safer course than renewing the writ although it was said in Sisknys v Hanley ( 1982 ) The Times , 26 May that the fact that the plaintiff 's solicitor could have but did not use this substituted service procedure was not a good reason for refusing renewal . |
| 15 | The plasma ACE level could turn out to be more useful for risk assessment than identifying the ACE genotype . |
| 16 | He 's more interested in being a writer than playing the drums , and reckons ‘ the situation is really … mercurial . ’ |
| 17 | Nothing is guaranteed to make an expert less sympathetic to your case than having an argument about when they are likely to be paid . |
| 18 | Well , they 'd got the skeleton that wanted a big brass lock but er oh you know , lovely and er it was more trouble getting the thing through the pan to get er the case than putting the insides in it , if you follow what I mean . |
| 19 | I went to the cinema considering that that would be of more benefit than taking a Latin exam that I could not pass . |
| 20 | This seems to be a major bugbear of some guns , making them harder work than applying the adhesive from a tube . |
| 21 | The court must therefore be satisfied that the order will positively contribute to the child 's welfare and must not make an order unless it considers that doing so would be better for the child than making no order at all . |
| 22 | By section 1(3) of the Act of 1989 Parliament has required a court exercising this jurisdiction to have regard to a number of considerations and by subsection ( 5 ) has directed the court to make no order , notwithstanding an agreement between the parties , unless it considers that doing so would be better for the child than making no order at all . |
| 23 | This is because s1(5) of the Children Act precludes the court from making an order unless it considers that this would be better for the child than making no order at all . |
| 24 | ( c ) Presumption of no order The court can not make an order under the Act unless it considers that this would be better for the child than making no order at all ( s1(5) ) . |
| 25 | That 's about the only difference between writing a short answer question than writing a long answer question , is that the long answer is a , is a good idea to have a diagram . |
| 26 | He 's obviously the kind of guy who spends more time snogging at the bar than watching the band . |
| 27 | He 's obviously the kind of guy who spends more time snogging at the bar than watching the band . |
| 28 | Comments such as ‘ Its more like cut to the core than pushing the limits ’ were heard by , Estates Facilities Services Manager , Winfrith . |
| 29 | Yet what is more deserving of anyone 's attention than getting the sales orders upon which the survival of the enterprise depends ? |
| 30 | It should be emphasised , however , that a recurrent and persistent pattern of many of these items is a much more accurate diagnostic indicator of addictive ; ease than noticing the smell of alcohol , looking for episodes of unkennels or examining for constriction of the pupils or other signs drug use . |