Example sentences of "[adj] than [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing easier than to turn the husband into a trustee for his own wife . |
| 2 | But what was simpler than to drive the car to Streatley , siphon petrol out of the Rolls into it ( possibly even siphon some into a can as well , to top it up near London ) and then drive back ? |
| 3 | I 'd like nothing better than to spend the night with you . ’ |
| 4 | But when MacDonald saw the King again at 10.20 p.m. , to report that he ‘ had no alternative than to tender the resignation of the Cabinet ’ , the King ‘ impressed on the Prime Minister that he was the only man to lead the country through this crisis and hoped he would reconsider the situation . |
| 5 | D : A daring character who likes nothing more than to crack the whip and digs anything that has a bit of a history connected to it |
| 6 | The number of levels is arbitrary , but it certainly is apparent that there is a very light , superficial , cliche level of communication that serves little more than to acknowledge the presence of another person . |
| 7 | The efforts made at that time by Sartre , Camus , Merleau-Ponty et alia to rehabilitate Nizan achieved no more than to illustrate the impossibility of reasoned dialogue with the French communist party at moments of extreme ideological polarisation . |
| 8 | ABOUT 2,000 young Sunday footballers intend to rally in Dundee City Square this weekend in protest at council plans more than to triple the cost of pitches and dressing rooms . |
| 9 | Britain doubted whether the UN could do more than to postpone the day when Soviet domination over Korea was established . |
| 10 | For an instant there was nothing she wanted more than to feel the heat of them on hers . |
| 11 | A different sort of response to art is to use it as a means of learning more about the society in which it was produced ; this may be felt by a theoretician to be more important than to know the artist 's intentions , which , it can be argued , are determined by society . |
| 12 | My thesis is that the remedy is not to discard voluntary bodies but to infuse them with a new purpose and to make new demands upon them ; and I have suggested that the new purpose is nothing less than to preserve the individuality of man . |
| 13 | Even here , the test of imminence discussed in Moss v. McLachlan suggest that there must be a clear and present danger that the conduct in which he is engaging will give rise to a breach of the peace , and it is demonstrable that the constable has no reasonable alternative course of action open to him other than to ask the speaker to desist , as by , for example , calling for assistance . |
| 14 | Yet nearby landowners had little option other than to tolerate the threat to law and order which the existence of open villages implied because the closed parishes to some extent relied upon the open ones to provide a pool of reserve labour which could be used during periods of peak demand like harvest , but which would not at other times become a charge on the poor rate . |
| 15 | I do not wish to take up much time other than to remind the Minister of the five-point agenda with which the NFU would like him to be armed in the poker games of Europe . |
| 16 | It is n't intended to go anywhere , just fill the time of day … on and on and on with no point or purpose other than to fill the time , like the rocking of a chair . ’ |
| 17 | Last night Conservative Central Office could provide no details on the lease it had bought , other than to say the freehold is owned by the Vauxhall Pension Fund . |
| 18 | After initial claims that Travolta was the hero of the hour , the star ordered his Hollywood spokesman not to comment , other than to confirm the plane landed safely . |
| 19 | There is no way out for you , other than to take the course we offer . ’ |
| 20 | He had no choice other than to negotiate the release of the youngsters . |
| 21 | The Louisiana Human Life Bill , passed by the state legislature on June 27 , provided punishments of 10 years ' " hard labour " and fines of up to $100,000 for doctors who performed abortions for any reason other than to save the life of the woman . |
| 22 | Even when it has that opportunity , because directions have to be sought , it is clear , as we have seen above from Sullivan v West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive , that it has no power to exclude such evidence at the interlocutory stage other than to limit the number of witnesses . |
| 23 | The French Dragoons crossed the frontier with drawn swords , but the weapons served no purpose other than to dignify the moment with a suitable melodrama , for there was not so much as a single Dutch customs officer to oppose the invasion . |
| 24 | A SKIP guard is always ready , and its execution has no effect other than to start the process which it guards . |
| 25 | According to the classical view , poetic style is purely decorative , playing no part in communication other than to please the hearer 's aesthetic sense.9 However , this view implies that figurative utterances may be paraphrased without loss of meaning , and as , for example , Coleridge ( 1906 : 263 ) points out , once it is recognised that " language is framed to convey not the object alone , but likewise the character , mood and intentions of the person representing it " , then it should not be surprising that the test of a " blameless style " is its " untranslatableness in words of the same language without injury to the meaning " . |
| 26 | When after a moment it had not moved , I resorted to the car horn , but this had no effect other than to make the creature commence pecking at something on the ground . |
| 27 | Dean Rusk declined to discuss it other than to make the observation that |
| 28 | Significantly , while Philips have been hurrying to launch the first full size CD-I players , Sony — notionally , Philips ' CD-I partners — have made no announcements about CD-I plans other than to show the palmtop device and to speak obliquely about other announcements to follow . |
| 29 | He has even looked benignly bored in the final days of preparation ; he has no need , other than to satisfy the boxing historians , to climb into the ring again . |