Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A project in which the children 's desire to acquire information will engender high motivation would seem a far more appropriate way of achieving this than putting them through special library lessons , divorced from any meaningful context . |
| 2 | Giving credit for extended periods is always more risky than giving it for shorter periods . |
| 3 | This is easier than doing it with numbers , any day . |
| 4 | This is much easier than keeping them in piles in a cupboard or closet . |
| 5 | It seemed easier than confronting her in their bedroom . |
| 6 | Intrigue and treachery , especially from former officials , were advertised in public as besetting him from all sides . |
| 7 | Better that than learning it from my visitors or this evening 's paper , I suppose they thought . |
| 8 | Better that than buying summat for |
| 9 | It 's a very positive way of letting out pent-up aggression and far less dangerous than slashing someone across the face with your stick — and I 've got the scars to prove it . ’ |
| 10 | You , you know how I feel , I mean er Rob does a lot of good work but he keeps it all to himself and we 've got ta be bigger than keeping it to ourselves , it 's everybody 's responsibility vocational education from right down from year seven right the way across the board , they 've got ta |
| 11 | Cuddling on the couch with your husband in front of other people is frowned upon just as much as kissing him in the street . |
| 12 | When he spoke , it seemed to her that he was listening to his own thoughts as much as conveying them to her . |
| 13 | This means not taking on someone who is too highly qualified and would be easily bored or dissatisfied as much as finding someone with the ability to do the job . |
| 14 | I 'm sorry if landing you with the girl 's clothes is an embarrassment . |
| 15 | This is obviously far more satisfactory than leaving it to a widely dispersed class of persons each of whom may lack the skill , interest and financial resources required if he is to take action on his own . |
| 16 | Better than shoving him in a creche in n it ? |
| 17 | Separating sheep from goats within a school was little better than separating them into different schools . |
| 18 | But again , it 's the cheapest plan , and it 's a plan that today could be better than having none at all . |
| 19 | pull it up , well they might leave it and just co disconnect it but they they 'd have to bring it in , I do n't it 'd be better I think if we had ours in the back because the , the telephone thing comes in from the back be better than having it in the , in the passage really . |
| 20 | It was not ideal , it was not what he had anticipated , far from it , but it was better than abandoning it to Adam . |
| 21 | ‘ Take it from me , kid — ambushing 's a lot better than smacking him in the snout . |
| 22 | and it 's cheaper than ordering it off the catalogue . |
| 23 | Since OCLC already have records from Missouri and New York Botanic Garden Libraries , I realised that a large proportion of our records would therefore already be in the OCLC system , and buying-in existing data is much cheaper than creating it as new records . |
| 24 | It 's cheaper than buying one across the road . |
| 25 | This , however , is not at all uncommon when regressing someone to such an early age , for babies do not have an awareness of time in the same way that adults do . |
| 26 | In any event the handing of the letters to the son could amount to no more than using him as a messenger . |
| 27 | Ribbing in the stitches on either side of the cable draws the work in more than allowing it to ladder down , which makes working a sample piece very important . |
| 28 | If you locate your own specimens it is worth so very much more than catching one with a name . |
| 29 | Karen would n't commit adultery behind Dennis 's back , but there was nothing that excited her more than doing it under his nose . |
| 30 | There is nothing to be gained by translating dollars into pounds in this story any more than doing it in a bank , so the money is untouched . |