Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] than [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Families are to be encouraged to live in their own homes rather than to rely on the state ( in the form of local authorities ) for the provision of council housing . |
| 2 | In this latter group of patients it may be more efficient to proceed directly to a trial of amiodarone or ICD placement rather than to proceed with a lengthy course of serial drug testing . |
| 3 | Its purpose is to diagnose and remedy weaknesses rather than to exclude from further study the students who do not perform well . |
| 4 | The conclusion ‘ that the overriding consideration must be to prevent war rather than to prepare for it , ’ was inescapable . |
| 5 | The emphasis of paraprofessional training needs to build upon and extend the qualities and skills that these workers bring to the team rather than to concentrate on socializing them to professional or organizational ways of doing things . |
| 6 | All courses have an underlying philosophy that emphasises the positive value of bilingualism , recognises the importance of anti-racist approaches to curriculum , materials and methods , acknowledges the role that mother tongue may play in learning and draws attention to the fact that bilingual students may have already studied the subject in their own country and need to transfer knowledge rather than to learn from the beginning . |
| 7 | This forces you to reflect on successes rather than to bask in them . |
| 8 | As the volume of water required for lockage of the existing traffic was 1,000,000 cubic feet only , it is obvious that it would have been more effective in the saving of water to reduce leakage rather than to concentrate on reducing the passage of water through locks — and much cheaper . |
| 9 | ‘ we are persuaded that , there being no authority to prevent us , it is preferable as a matter of justice to hold parties to their clearly expressed bargain rather than to introduce for the first time in 1971 an extension of a doctrine of land law so as to deny the efficacy of that bargain . |
| 10 | IF you like to feel at one with nature when you are having a tipple , you could do a lot worse than to make for the upstairs bar in the Shaftesbury Inn on Belfast 's Antrim Road . |
| 11 | Again we see how much easier it is to be absolute in allegiance to a doctrine rather than to enquire into the beliefs upon which it is founded . |
| 12 | To say what it ought to be would be to express attitudes of his own , which he does not regard as the task of the kind of philosopher like himself who is , in his professional work , trying to understand ethical discussion rather than to participate in it . |
| 13 | However , it is the job of the draftsman to produce certainty for his client rather than to rely on general legal principles . |