Example sentences of "[adj] than [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing is easier than to obey a master who is perhaps exacting , but who rules over all details of life , assures one 's daily bread , and makes it possible to banish all concern from the mind . |
| 2 | Of course now it 's warm enough to start getting out in the garden , what could be better than to take a selection of water toys to play with in the paddling pool outside ? |
| 3 | There is nothing more irritating than to start a job , and find halfway through that you do not have a vital piece of equipment . |
| 4 | Perhaps he is a merry , convivial sort of fellow in private life , who likes nothing more than to crack a bottle of wine with his friends when there is no possibility of having to drive a motor-car afterwards . |
| 5 | ‘ I can wait for you , ’ she said huskily , and Claudia wanted nothing more than to leave a car that was rapidly becoming far too small for three . |
| 6 | There is ample room within the synaptic interactions of even 20,000 neurons for their properties to be those of the system rather than of its individual cells , and claims which were once popular that within insect and crustacean nervous systems one could find key ‘ command ’ neurons have gone the same way as , in eastern Europe , parallel enthusiasm for ‘ command economies ’ — that is , they turn out to be not a good way to organize individual behaviour any more than to run a country . |
| 7 | Its purpose Augean — no less than to perform an act of reparation for the sins of students everywhere . |
| 8 | has n't been , he 's been even more desperate than to get a goal , but he got one on twenty one . |
| 9 | Perhaps still smarting from his lowly position and lack of respect in Yenan 30 years before , he publicly condemned Deng as arrogant and dangerously ambitious : ‘ To discuss with Deng Xiaoping as equals is more difficult than to put a ladder against heaven . ’ |
| 10 | The bill , the most draconian to have been passed by any state , prohibited abortion in cases other than to save a woman 's life or in cases of rape ( if reported within five days ) or incest , where abortion would be permitted only in the first 13 weeks . |
| 11 | Like a chariot , a War Wagon can not move over obstacles or difficult terrain other than to cross a bridge or ford . |
| 12 | Great care was subsequently taken not to move Chalmers more than necessary other than to place a stretcher beneath him , although he could no doubt have walked from the field . |
| 13 | They therefore faced no option other than to make a go of the business . |
| 14 | Nottinghamshire originally sought a prohibited steps order to keep the perpetrator away from the family home , but was turned down by the High Court which said it had no option other than to make a residence order . |
| 15 | Dear , though , refuted any suggestions that his decision to leave Park , without a league win this year , was for any reason other than to win a place on the England ‘ B ’ tour to New Zealand — something he felt was unlikely if he stayed with Park . |