Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] than [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old people are , of course , entitled to the same social courtesies as we are , and it can be very irritating for them if they are made to feel that they are regarded as has-beens who have nothing better to do than to sit around waiting to be visited at our convenience . |
| 2 | On one occasion , when George Brown was to give a seminal broadcast on a new financial plan , Wigg , who had been assigned by the Prime Minister to ensure , or to endeavour to ensure , that Brown arrived at Broadcasting House respectably sober , could think of nothing better to do than to consign him in the early afternoon to the sitting-room in my flat at Ashley Gardens . |
| 3 | To be alone , to have nothing to think about except oneself … to have nothing more to do than to die without a supreme approbation ! |
| 4 | A young relative writing to me recently expressed the feeling that she had always found it easier to give than to receive . |
| 5 | Subtraction : Working on the basis that most of us find it easier to add than to subtract , why not use addition to make the subtraction process simpler . |
| 6 | The Christians soon acquired a reputation even among the pagans for being generous with their money ; they thought it better to give than to enquire too closely into the merits of the recipients , and were therefore occasionally easy game for confidence tricksters . |