Example sentences of "[subord] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I 'd sooner come to Cheltenham than to go to a holiday abroad . |
| 2 | If diarrhoea is described in some particular terms rather than others ( e.g. if it described as empacho ) the patient is more likely to consult a traditional practitioner than to go to a health clinic . |
| 3 | She was beset by the realization that she desired nothing more than to go to the Hall as Anne Mowbray 's companion . |
| 4 | However , since she needed to fill her time until his return , what better way than to go to the capital city , and spend some days taking a look round ? |
| 5 | Though in theory taking life was contrary to the tenets of Buddhism , it was considered more shocking to kill animals for other persons , or for their hides , than to kill for a meal . |
| 6 | He sat down on a small bedside chair , leaving Culley and Dawson no other option than to sit on the bed , which they did , side by side , like travellers on a train . |
| 7 | Whether it 's the Police Band or one from a nearby mill town , there are fewer nicer ways to end a summer day in Leeds than to sit in a deckchair at sunset , listening to the haunting sound of the trumpets and trombones . |
| 8 | What could be more refreshing , for instance , than to sit in the sun sipping a glass of one of the latest fruit wines ? |
| 9 | It is easier to stop doing something than to continue with an activity but with greater efficiency . |
| 10 | It is not to be doubted that there are still thousands of mainframe users that want nothing more than to continue with the kind of computing they have always known , using the environment with which they are familiar , and in which they have invested a large part of their lives . |
| 11 | She rarely came out of Merchiston Lodge , except to go to the village , and it was quite a pleasure , she discovered , to be driving away from it . |
| 12 | Its frail old shell served little other purpose than to squat on the ground and prevent any adjacent developments from creeping across it . |
| 13 | Once again it is more important to explore the problem with students than to come to an answer . |
| 14 | She knew , as she carried articles that required hanging up through to the wardrobes , that she was not going to tresspass any further on Ven 's generosity than to partake of a cup of tea with him . |
| 15 | Now she took care to change the subject and what could be more natural than to talk to the vet and his sister about Faustina and to speculate on what she might be doing at this moment . |
| 16 | Erika was still not completely sure what the text meant but one thing about it was clear , people had better things to do than to dwell on the past and surely — it came upon Erika in a flash of intuition — surely the State was doing just that : not , of course , leaving the dead unmourned , and certainly not forgetting the evils of Fascism , but moving forward — preaching a socialist gospel — and not merely preaching it , doing it : making a fairer , better , juster Germany . |
| 17 | Disknet gives the user no other choice than to stick to a routine of checking each incoming diskette for viruses . |
| 18 | Disknet gives the user no other choice than to stick to a routine of checking each incoming diskette for viruses . |
| 19 | Charles Bosanquet assured his readers that ‘ the London poor are accustomed to the notion of being visited and more inclined to complain of being neglected than to look on a visitor as an intruder ’ . |
| 20 | Members of congress are , in any event , likely to be in awe of the president ; a direct telephone call from him will carry special weight as Tip O'Neill reports : ‘ The men and women in Congress love nothing better than to hear from the head guy . |
| 21 | There was no other way in except to walk through the priory , but a stranger would be stopped by the porter and seen by any of the community , be it nun or one of the lay workers . |
| 22 | ‘ What better note to end it on than to win in a team situation and when you are playing for your country ? |
| 23 | She knew better than to walk around the front of the house . |
| 24 | I am less concerned to focus on the psychopathology of individuals than to point to a collective , cultural condition ‘ and the tendencies of people who make it up ’ ( May , 1969 ) . |
| 25 | You might find this hard to believe but I 'm the kind of person who likes nothing more than to potter about the house in a pair of jeans and a sweater and eat spaghetti Bolognese . |
| 26 | ‘ No , it 's not , in he said , ‘ It 's a Suo , and I should know.in I knew better than to argue with an expert , so I said nothing and quickly caught it instead . |
| 27 | For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness . ’ |
| 28 | All courses have an underlying philosophy that emphasises the positive value of bilingualism , recognises the importance of anti-racist approaches to curriculum , materials and methods , acknowledges the role that mother tongue may play in learning and draws attention to the fact that bilingual students may have already studied the subject in their own country and need to transfer knowledge rather than to learn from the beginning . |
| 29 | The regional materials of each area , once so varied , began their slow demise as bricks , for instance , became cheaper to import from the Midlands than to bake in the village kiln . |
| 30 | ( Incidentally , it was harder to work out that there was a question than to think of the answer ! ) |