Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Olympic movement looking ahead rather than reflecting on it 's noble past was how one I O C Committee member described Atlanta 's win over Athens , Bobby Charlton part of Manchester 's bid was n't so sure . |
| 2 | The hand keeps moving all the time , warding off rather than stopping . |
| 3 | By paying now rather than waiting , shall I be saving money in the long run ? |
| 4 | If this is the case , it is better for employees to know and understand this before going abroad rather than to go out with high hopes only to return to Britain dispirited . |
| 5 | a hexagon like that with a going inwards rather than sticking outwards , |
| 6 | Secondary school classes have also grown , with more pupils staying on rather than face the dole queue . |
| 7 | You need to select flat water conditions with no more than a Force 3 otherwise you will be concentrating too hard on staying upright rather than thinking about the exercises . |
| 8 | With the present London Philharmonic exceptionally alert , the skipping rhythms in compound time are sprung as infectiously as ever , nudging now rather than jabbing the listener . |
| 9 | Ah yes , the mystic east , flying carpets , romance on all sides , and on the long sandy beach around the translucent waters of the bay at Ortakent you can laze your days away doing little else than looking deep into each other 's eyes . |
| 10 | This suggested a hung parliament with Neil Kinnock leading a minority government , and Tory campaigners are furious that the BBC did not mention the party 's share of the vote , which would have shown it performing much better than predicted . |
| 11 | FOR FAR too long , glasses have been a matter of seeing well rather than looking good . |
| 12 | It remains true that sport is really all about competing well rather than winning , but when defeat becomes too common , particularly in activities in which we think we should excel , the moment may have come to do something drastic . |
| 13 | As this trip was taking much longer than planned , due to many orbits and several beautiful parts of the coastline flown as slowly as possible , we expedited lunch , and were soon airborne heading north to pick up the coast again . |
| 14 | By the time the children have grown up , the marital relationship can be very empty , often extending little further than sharing the same house . |
| 15 | Most companies , including employment agencies , were thinking of laying off rather than taking on staff . |
| 16 | In these models the economy is assumed to be adjusting continuously rather than moving in discrete jumps at intervals ( annual or quarterly ) corresponding to the available data . |
| 17 | JUST WHAT Arsenal might have achieved in Europe this season must remain a matter for speculation , but as they sit on top of the Premier League today manager George Graham insists on thinking ahead rather than looking back . |
| 18 | holding a ‘ dress rehearsal ’ beforehand so that the members of the panel can get used to working together rather than having to learn while the interview is in progress . |
| 19 | 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 . |