Example sentences of "[adv] than [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That infamous attire strangling his glorious body — really a pastiche of desirability — inspired battalions of people who should know better than to wear Lycra shorts . |
| 2 | If you want special dishes with a difference that still have a sense of occasion and which are both tasty and good for you , then you could n't do better than choosing Tilda Basmati rice . |
| 3 | He should have known better than to think Ben would not ask that question . |
| 4 | Hereabouts , Beryl Love 's ashes must have been scattered beneath a rose bush , though he knew better than to think Ernie might have invested in a memorial plaque . |
| 5 | Despite this deprivation , and despite the fact that the difference in their age was only a year , he survived the early and mid-1930s much better than did MacDonald . |
| 6 | She knew better than to disobey Julius when he used that particular tone of voice , though . |
| 7 | The policeman should have known better than to expect Duncan to fall for a cheap trick like that . |
| 8 | Maybe more so than say Sandwick and I find like Rendal folk you could tell some of them even yet . |
| 9 | When we chatted , Hastings looked as composed as if he 'd just spent the afternoon at his office rather than sending Wales homeward to Cardiff to think again . |
| 10 | Fitzroy Maclean and Bill Cumper , the engineer , managed to obtain a pair of small black inflatables , with the intention that the team would operate them rather than using SBS personnel . |
| 11 | She felt rather than heard David 's gasp of horror . |
| 12 | The King now prepared to mount an attack on Granada and , thanks to the request of his queen in a personal letter to Rodrigo , El Cid joined him , raising the siege of Leira just as the city was about to capitulate rather than fail Alfonso . |
| 13 | The Press and Information Ministry , rather than re-registering Izvestiya as the Supreme Soviet newspaper , on July 20 appealed to the Constitutional Court over the legality of the Supreme Soviet resolution . |
| 14 | Rather than ignore Philips 's cherished necessity principle , the Government turned it on its head . |
| 15 | ‘ No matter what he says or does , no matter what happens to force me towards him — I 'd die rather than marry Damian Flint ! ’ |
| 16 | They would have endured the worst torment he could have devised rather than betray Resenence Jeopardy . |
| 17 | Rather than match China 's firmness , it can be confidently predicted , the Hong Kong authorities will follow past form , cease muttering about their shock and horror over Tiananmen , and return to bland assurances that the negotiations with Peking about a post-1997 ‘ Basic Law ’ for Hong Kong are going well . |
| 18 | Ruckelshaus , a republican lawyer , also hit the headlines when he resigned as Deputy Attorney-General in the midst of the Watergate crisis rather than fulfil President Nixon 's order to fire Archibald Fox , the special prosecutor . |
| 19 | But rather than seeing Gloucester as a weak independent power eclipsed by a strong court connection , one should probably , as in East Anglia , think of him as part of that connection . |
| 20 | But rather than seeing Gloucester as a weak independent power eclipsed by a strong court connection , one should probably , as in East Anglia , think of him as part of that connection . |
| 21 | However , rather than seeing Jill Duffy and others like her as ‘ pathologically obsessed ’ with housework ( and thus as unrepresentative of the wider housewife population ) it makes more sense to view their behaviour as a rational response to a problematic situation . |
| 22 | Amy has also learned to take responsibility for her own happiness , rather than trusting Joe to invest and harvest it for her . |
| 23 | Rather than quoting Churchill ( or more precisely , it appeared , the British Trotskyist Isaac Deutscher ) Pravda reminded its readers of Lenin 's assessment of Stalin , and of the verdict of the party congresses of 1956 and 1961 . |
| 24 | Right from the start , the people who dreamed up the reforms made the mistake of including buzz-words — the ‘ internal market ’ and ‘ opted-out ’ are the most glaring examples — which seemed intended to flatter Mrs Thatcher rather than to inform Mr Average . |
| 25 | The King could reasonably take the view that he was doing no more than exercising the right to encourage , one of Bagehot 's famous trinity of rights , and that he was encouraging his Prime Minister in achieving his aims , rather than pressing MacDonald to adopt a course which was unwelcome to him . |
| 26 | Rather than eliminating NHS under-funding and the resulting problems , I think they will increase the bureaucracy , without any guarantee of better patient-care . |
| 27 | For their part , the BEA were anxious to prevent detailed intervention , and tried ( though not always successfully ) to insist on the protocol of official exchange through their secretary , rather than permitting Murray and the other civil servants direct access to specialist BEA personnel for information on particular policy issues . |
| 28 | But rather than have Mercedes back in the factory , the company preferred to pay her wages through the Ministry of Labour and would n't let her return to work or even come near the factory . |
| 29 | When the Girls left to get married at the end of each show , rather than risk Jennie 's haphazard choice of replacements , she sent over the two Head Girls who were almost resident in America , Rene Todd or Dorothy Sabine , to make their own selection . |
| 30 | And , rather than allow Eldorado to be a drain on the Corporation for years to come , the show is expected to be the first on his hit list . |