Example sentences of "way than " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm incredibly lazy but I do think I 've found the right way or at least a better way than hers to live . |
| 2 | She proceeded to do this earnestly , seriously , and she sounded like an old steam-engine wheezing from the depths of the water ( that idyllic sound , now long forgotten , which to those who never knew it can be described in no better way than the wheezing of an old woman breathing in and out by the edge of a pool ) . |
| 3 | It may be possible to distract a horse in some other way than in giving it food , so that it tolerates being shod . |
| 4 | If you 're brought up with your dad having a very strict view about what people should like , in a more severe way than my dad , then you would be bound to get worried , because your parents never say ; ‘ You look good enough ’ . |
| 5 | Although I suggested in the last chapter that it was easier for Brian Way than for Peter Slade to challenge the formal drama traditions within the schools , it could not be said that either of them had very much impact on what drama meant and still means to interested people outside our educational institutions . |
| 6 | But you can not sense radiation in any other way than by measuring it with a sensitive instrument . |
| 7 | This possibility of resumption , of the fulfilment of the promise of endless flow temporarily threatened by interruption , seems to me to operate in a quite different way than the cinematic cut , occupying a different structure of time , a different relation to fantasy , and motivated less by desire , loss and lack . |
| 8 | Whatever changes may occur , it is for you , the buyer or seller , to protect your interests , and there is no better way than by carrying out your own survey , whether you have a professional/mortgage survey or not . |
| 9 | .. requires consultation with the redundant employee so that the employer may find out whether the needs of the business can be met in some other way than by dismissal and , if not , what other steps the employer can take to ameliorate the blow to the employee . |
| 10 | He wanted to cover himself with glory , and what better way than getting accepted by this new elite . |
| 11 | A boy or girl who appears to be rejecting parental values may be developing in a more healthy and normal way than one who follows the parent 's party line and gives no trouble . |
| 12 | This would not end the wars , but it would in effect be a declaration from the Israelis announcing that whilst they intend to fight to keep the disputed territory , they are nevertheless admitting that their right to it is no different from that of anyone else , and until the world produces some better way than fighting , this is how they will-operate . |
| 13 | To look back through a history of censorship in libraries is an instructive and fascinating experience ( and there is no better way than through Thompson 's Censorship in public libraries in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century ) . |
| 14 | Thus ‘ etheric geography ’ opens up another possibility of interpreting the landscape in a more subtle and complete way than has usually been done . |
| 15 | It was considered the less discreditable way than a commission of bankruptcy , said Thomas Gisborne . |
| 16 | The essential difference , I feel , is that they are operated by humans in a much more direct way than a computer or beatbox . |
| 17 | Women are generally more perceptive in this way than men , he says , but it is something anybody can develop . |
| 18 | It is certainly more fun to shoot video this way than to take unrelated pot-shots , and it is infinitely more interesting to watch . |
| 19 | The Bill would outlaw discrimination in employment , housing , education , leisure facilities , transport and public services in a more effective way than the existing legislation . |
| 20 | Next morning , Mildred was jolted awake by the bell ringing in a much more frantic way than usual . |
| 21 | It had become , as it were , welded into one thick compact mass , nearly as hard as wood , and which it was impossible to separate , unrole , or divide in any other way than by cutting … |
| 22 | It was quite refreshing to see and read that someone else saw these things and could articulate them in a better and more entertaining way than I could |
| 23 | ‘ We 've paid a heavy price for our mistakes this season and I ca n't explain it any other way than to say it 's bad luck . |
| 24 | However , even outer clothing must have required fastening and such wear would also have arisen if they were worn on undergarments in such a way as to come into contact with the inner face of the coarse outer garments ; such extreme wear is perhaps more likely to have occurred in this way than on the outside . |
| 25 | There were no street lights any more and cars could n't use their headlights , and it was being said that more people were being killed this way than if a real war had come upon them . |
| 26 | I can think of dozens of Corbetts which are finer mountains in every way than many of their higher counterparts in the Munro bracket . |
| 27 | The idea of recycled clothes seemed more exciting in a way than modern clothes . |
| 28 | The secret is to use the claw weight in a different way than that illustrated in the instructions . |
| 29 | The strategy adopted for the defence of absolutism and reason is firstly to protect philosophy from the intrusion of the sociology of knowledge and secondly to assert that there is simply no other way than having the absolute standards of reason . |
| 30 | It was better that way than making him ask . |