Example sentences of "[det] [noun] than [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll save a lot of wear and tear on your hands if you buy a stainless steel trowel , because nothing causes more blisters than using a rusty trowel . |
| 2 | I went to the cinema considering that that would be of more benefit than taking a Latin exam that I could not pass . |
| 3 | When the data base for syntactic analysis is a body of naturally occurring speech rather than experimentally elicited material , analysis and interpretation of that data is liable to raise even more problems than finding a way to collect it in the first place ( see 7.2 ) . |
| 4 | For certain technologies , notably strategic defence against nuclear weapons , researching makes more sense than deploying a half-baked system . |
| 5 | A tenon saw : Even if you plan to do no more carpentry than cutting a veneered chipboard shelf to length , you 've got to have a saw . |