Example sentences of "[noun pl] than [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 's no bigger drain on public funds than financing the dole . |
| 2 | You 'll save a lot of wear and tear on your hands if you buy a stainless steel trowel , because nothing causes more blisters than using a rusty trowel . |
| 3 | The vice-chancellor said the creditors ' committee had been given insufficient time and information to judge the proposals , which were negotiated by BCCI liquidator Touche Ross , particularly whether accepting Abu Dhabi 's package would recover more money for creditors than suing the majority shareholders . |
| 4 | Here , experience of a particular sector is less important as a previous record of achievement in searching for such individuals than having the necessary weight and calibre to be able to attract those people . |
| 5 | A careful , just and public system of this kind may be a fairer way of deciding between competing bids for scarce resources than leaving the fate of an elder to the personal impressions or abilities of a practitioner . |
| 6 | The formulation of a course for validation placed a greater burden on college resources than offering a centrally devised course but he felt that this was offset by the ability which a college now had to react quickly and flexibly to meet local demands . |
| 7 | However , previous attempts to change those procedures at Lloyd 's have usually presented more problems than privatising the water authorities . |
| 8 | When the data base for syntactic analysis is a body of naturally occurring speech rather than experimentally elicited material , analysis and interpretation of that data is liable to raise even more problems than finding a way to collect it in the first place ( see 7.2 ) . |
| 9 | There are few simpler things than cooking a salmon . |
| 10 | He helps in a lot of other ways than catching the ball . |
| 11 | What better way to appreciate your flowers than practising the art of sample collecting ? |
| 12 | The people who were devoting their lives to transforming society into an egalitarian paradise could not be expected to live like other people who had nothing better on their minds than scratching a living . |
| 13 | Well precisely for that reason , that not only this particular person , but lots of other people at times cause trouble , and I 'm not always there erm and Pauline , who 's next to me , who you 'll probably talk to in a minute — she 's over eighty , she 'll kill me for telling you that because she does n't look it , she only looks about forty , but — erm she stuck in there and people are frightened and erm worried about her , and the fact is that erm there 's no other way of calling the police than having a phone . |
| 14 | While I ca n't say I actually enjoyed the experience — as usual , two shirts flaked me out and put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day — I did find the whole process a whole lot easier on the nerves than throwing a glass of water across a shirt in the hope that somehow the creases , along with the water , would eventually evaporate . |