Example sentences of "[noun pl] than [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne Tunstall would rather drop dead at his feet than accept him after this . |
| 2 | ‘ I guess some of us ‘ types ’ have better things to do with our lives than dedicate ourselves to the attraction of the opposite sex . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Which girl is bad ? ’ asked Nour , his hair dark gold from the wetting of the shower , and I felt I would rather swim in the pool with the crocodiles than tell him about the girl like a cat . |
| 4 | There are plenty of other ways than throwing yourself from a walkway . ’ |
| 5 | Localised knowledge is put to better use and in the right circumstances it may be less costly to establish area factories/offices than to control everything through Head Office ( eg. costs of transportation and travelling may be less ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Because my family were lawyers and self-employed , I 've always had the feeling that I would rather hold my future in my own hands than have it in somebody else 's . |
| 7 | Unmarried teenage mothers are more likely nowadays to keep their children than to place them for adoption . |
| 8 | One is a problem of content : it is appropriate for feminists to celebrate their diverse sexual choices ( lesbianism or spinsterhood , for instance ) but not , perhaps , to reduce ourselves to body parts ( I would have problems referring to myself approvingly as a cunt , or even as a slut , since I would rather challenge the necessity for a linguistic category of ‘ unchaste ’ women than embrace it with joy ) . |
| 9 | Furthermore , it is more advantageous for management to subscribe shares than to acquire them by transfer , because they may then be entitled to income tax relief pursuant to s574 Taxes Act 1988 if the venture fails . |