Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I m sorry , Mr Beamish , but he 'll be away all day and I thought I 'd better come along rather than leave it till tomorrow . " |
| 2 | He believed that the Scottish Secretary 's estimates were probably based on the operation of the system once it had bedded down rather than looking at initial assumptions . |
| 3 | It 's becoming fashionable to buy in rather than build specialised servers — IBM Corp and Digital Equipment Corp are both doing it , and now ICL Plc has gone to Burlington , Massachusetts-based Xylogics Inc for the Annex Three and Micro Annex XL communications servers under an OEM agreement that will see the UK company marketing them as the DRS local network terminal server line with its DRS 6000 range of Sparc-based and DRS 3000 iAPX-86-based Unix systems . |
| 4 | The hand keeps moving all the time , warding off rather than stopping . |
| 5 | They begin to look back rather than construct a future for themselves . |
| 6 | Secondary school classes have also grown , with more pupils staying on rather than face the dole queue . |
| 7 | This means that in most cases it is more likely to be a matter of relaxing the forward pressure to allow the aircraft to level out rather than pulling it out with a positive backward pressure on the stick . |
| 8 | This was not only because I would rather have won than lost anything , but also because , winning being unlikely , I would rather have opted out altogether than lost . |
| 9 | If a number of people are present , invitations to summarize can be shared around rather than becoming the prerogative of one person . |
| 10 | The birds do n't help themselves because when they are frightened they fly into the air and circle around rather than head for the trees . |
| 11 | Even though customers might not receive the allocation of shares requested , once their money was effectively in their hands they might decide to shop around rather than return to Nationwide . |
| 12 | To conclude I think that we should go along rather than hope sort of an aspect of Conservative philosophy which is that people should be encouraged to earn money and they should be encouraged to save money and that therefore in this case this means proposing this Conservative motion , though I hope they will actually have the common sense to withdraw it . |
| 13 | She turned her head , staring at him , noting how he looked down rather than meet her eyes , and knew at once that he was lying to her . |
| 14 | drive slowly — it 's safer and it consumes less fuel ; avoid sudden stops and use the gears to slow down rather than making sudden brake stops |
| 15 | If you rent a place to live in rather than work in , you may need to see a solicitor about any of these legal matters : |
| 16 | He began to notice that those juveniles who were on his line of flight deferred to him , preferring to back off rather than confront him . |
| 17 | Unless wages rise more slowly or output picks up faster than seems likely , Germany faces higher inflation and a growing deficit in foreign trade . |
| 18 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 19 | Head of Department : ‘ This will pose severe problems for some … may put off rather than motivate them … may backfire on us ! ’ ( verified note of meeting ) |
| 20 | And it was very difficult to erm to get to get much activity going in the flats cos people 's people 's aim was to get out rather than to improve the conditions or or work on local issues . |
| 21 | BBC network television has gone a step further and introduced a sexual harassment hotline , which , though it sounds like one of the services advertised in David Sullivan 's tabloid journals , is intended to root out rather than promote unwanted lubricity . |
| 22 | Built from the debris of planets , moons and comets , the sphere had originally been designed to completely enclose its star , collecting all the energy it gave out rather than letting the vast majority of it escape away into space . |
| 23 | As the problem which prompted the question has been resolved by the Inland Revenue , will my hon. Friend pass on to its staff the thanks of many Members of Parliament for dealing with issues that we have raised on behalf of our constituents and say that we hope that the problems will continue to decline as tax rates come down rather than go up ? |
| 24 | Most companies , including employment agencies , were thinking of laying off rather than taking on staff . |
| 25 | The 15th was an obvious birdie hole but Wadkins thinned his drive and , after much deliberation , decided to lay up rather than go for the carry . |
| 26 | Sometimes , though , we can be so afraid of what other people think that we shut up rather than speak up . |
| 27 | True , we have seen the evil of fur coats ( those in Lynne Truss 's story bite back rather than coset the wearer ) , but we have yet to heed Helen Simpson 's caution that even New Men may well be beasts in gourmet cook 's clothing . |
| 28 | Many firms now buy in rather than make components themselves , and overcome the problems of controlling quality and delivery by forming very close relationships with suppliers sometimes in return for single-supplier status . |
| 29 | this is your way of working back rather than try and remember every little detail because a lot of them are similar , easy to get confused between them but you think well hey what would happen , what happens with an acid and a base , what happens with an acid and an alkali , now those two are virtually identical they they are more or less identical . |