Example sentences of "than pay the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has been much nicer than paying the 5% or so charged on bank loans even when interest rates in Japan were at a record low . |
| 2 | Charityware resembles shareware , but rather than paying the author directly you are asked to make a charitable donation and inform the author . |
| 3 | Firstly , it should be remembered that raising well-equipped military forces may sometimes have been no less expensive than paying the enemy to go away . |
| 4 | you see go to a football match , or buying some er electrical appliance appeal to them far more than paying the rent ! |
| 5 | A London based international construction company closed down all its operations in Northern Ireland rather than pay the protection money required . |
| 6 | Rather than pay the bribes and suffer the losses resulting from delays , people took the risk of fines for disobeying the law . |
| 7 | Coastal erosion , the advance of the sands , had interested him insofar as it had destroyed the estate of a landowner who then chose to relinquish the property rather than pay the requisite taxes . |
| 8 | People who go to prison for non-payment of the community charge do so because they choose to lose their liberty rather than pay the amount that is rightfully theirs to pay . |
| 9 | Of course at this stage , rather than pay the cancellation charge , the buyer might as well take delivery . |
| 10 | In Sweden , again , there was a series of efforts during the eighteenth century to regulate more rationally the salaries paid to different ranks of diplomat , though there as elsewhere it was easier to do this than to pay the salaries regularly . |