Example sentences of "[det] than [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's better this than wasting a load of money that carpets we 're gon na bin anyway |
| 2 | Better that than spending a miserable lifetime in the Windsor soup … |
| 3 | What better way to achieve that than having a top overseas player ? |
| 4 | Making love burns up more calories than playing golf and not that many fewer than throwing a frisbee . |
| 5 | ‘ Literacy means more than learning a code or writing a word . |
| 6 | The process involves no more than threading a strip beneath another one that runs across it more or less at right angles , and keeping on doing so at intervals with dogged persistence , pulling the strip tight after each threading . |
| 7 | For those who know how , doing yoga for half an hour in the morning , or meditating in a darkened room for ten minutes just before giving the speech will assist , or perhaps it will require nothing more than taking a deep breath before you speak . |
| 8 | In practical terms , selling a house through an estate agent can not possibly cost more than using a solicitor . |
| 9 | Both must be considered useful for nothing more than maintaining a battery 's charge . |
| 10 | It is now up to Ferguson to prove he is doing something more than repeating a cliched defence . |
| 11 | these proposals we regard as doing no more than initiating a programme of family welfare which will have to be kept under continuous review and modified and expanded in the light of experience and deeper knowledge . |
| 12 | ( Opposite , top ) Self-defence for a rhinoceros may be little more than casting a sleepily arrogant eye on the hungry lions surrounding it ; for an agitated elephant , on the other hand , it may be a vigorous charge . |
| 13 | Back in November , Mr Bush got a rude shock when his ‘ Energy Strategy ’ ( which amounted to little more than building a few more nuclear reactors and opening up every remaining square inch of Alaska to further oil exploration ) got kicked out by the Senate . |
| 14 | There was nothing he enjoyed more than seeing a couple of his subordinates at each other 's throats . |
| 15 | You can dish up lavish meals without doing anything more than popping a ready meal in the microwave . |
| 16 | But , having given permission and encouraged the port authority and dock company to move in and operate a port , which is a major long term undertaking , it is hardly reasonable to seek to stop or materially limit it without compensation and when the dock company is doing no more than making a success of that for which permission was granted . |
| 17 | Executive dress for both men and women means much more than finding a pair of unscuffed shoes in the morning . |
| 18 | Preparing for this Assembly involves much more than booking a few halls and sending out invitations . |
| 19 | Learning a language , as Halliday ( 1984 ) and Hymes ( 1971 ) amongst others have pointed out , involves more than acquiring a grammatical system that will generate well-formed sentences . |
| 20 | Then I mention that the only people who really use notebooks to the full , who worry about weight and battery life , are journalists because most other notebook users tend to take them from the car to an office or home , often using the mains and probably doing little more than running a spreadsheet . |
| 21 | Some day the boffins 'll make games with massive levels , innovative features , loads to see and do , much more than blasting a few planes and balloons . ’ |
| 22 | The cost of buying a complete system is claimed to be less than £1m — less than buying a licence for an IBM mainframe software upgrade . |
| 23 | Plenty of guys in this racket have found themselves in front of a jury for a lot less than picking a dame up off the floor . |
| 24 | The cost of this service would be substantially less than repairing a unit . |