Example sentences of "than face [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 'll tell you this , I 'd rather go 12 rounds with Lennox Lewis than face a 25-yarder from our full-back Clive Freeman ! |
| 2 | I could no more return to that house alone than face the devil . |
| 3 | It 's easier to dismiss reports of low employee morale than face the facts and act accordingly . |
| 4 | They would rather play dead than face the pain of thinking about their wives and family and the ordinary small activities of family life which they did n't sufficiently value when they had freedom . |
| 5 | ESC founders Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington director and star of the Shakespeare tragedy say they would rather stay away from the Civic , one of the strongest dates on their world tours , than face the same problem again . |
| 6 | Whitehall mandarins have discreetly voiced hopes that the party leaders will cobble together an agreement rather than face a second election . |
| 7 | However , the tally of six underestimates the total effect because some MPs unsympathetic to Left-wing ideas may have decided to retire a little early rather than face a battle for re-adoption . |
| 8 | In the final analysis the need for a swift response to an immediate housing shortage after the war painted almost inevitably to a large-scale local authority housing programme , rather than face a period of delay while housing associations were geared up to the task . |
| 9 | ONE OF Czechoslovakia 's most prominent dissidents , Stanislav Devaty , has gone underground rather than face an appeal hearing which could have confirmed a 20-month jail sentence . |
| 10 | He revealed that BMW is prepared to withdraw from the US rather than face the economic suicide such regulations would bring . |
| 11 | I think I was just miserable , and it was far easier to believe the reason was something I could do something about , rather than face the fact that my depression was very complicated , based on things like my family not having much money , and feeling very isolated and different from the kids at school . |
| 12 | Rather than face the revolution that was simmering under the surface of German political life , they were more than happy to divert attention away from the real cause of the problems in the east and to let the Poles appear to be the troublemakers . |
| 13 | Rather oddly , in the context of a crisis in which the abolition of the House of Lords was under consideration , it seems to have been assumed that this reservation would present a realistic safeguard against a majority party in the House of Commons seeking to keep its government in power indefinitely rather than face the country . |
| 14 | In Britain , all bands are made up of burly chaps whose pent-up emotions cause them to split up by post and be rude to the bass player in print rather than face the separation . |
| 15 | Lineker , on the other hand , took his decision having already played in two World Cups , deciding it was in his best interests to seek a fortune playing in Japan rather than face the prospect of losing his status and even his England place as his legs began to fail him . |
| 16 | Local campaigners fear many pupils will play truant rather than face the taunts of classmates about their ragged clothes . |
| 17 | Secondary school classes have also grown , with more pupils staying on rather than face the dole queue . |
| 18 | They were not the only respondent of the survey who identified another clear advantage of headhunting , especially for the most senior positions : that staff who were prepared to move jobs actually prefer to be headhunted , rather than face the time-consuming task of ploughing through advertisements or the slightly demoralising task of putting their names down with agencies . |
| 19 | Rather than face the shame of interrogation , the Phoenix King took poison . |
| 20 | Most of us will try anything rather than face the pain , yet that is the only way out of it , and tears and weeping are an essential factor in the cure . |
| 21 | Outmoded models are still conventional wisdom and in geomorphology there are signs that , rather than face the new realities , there is a retreat into the more rarefied atmosphere of conceptual model-building and complex correlation structure diagrams . |
| 22 | She might prefer to accept that rather than face the horror of the idea of her husband , the King of Scotland , being thrown into a pit among commoners . ’ |
| 23 | It is worth remembering that one of Ælfric 's patrons , and the founder of his abbeys of Cerne and Eynsham , was the nobleman Ætheær who may have retired from court rather than face the growing influence of Eadric Streona . |
| 24 | Occasionally , rather than face the underwriting costs , purchasers may make the rights issue at a deep discount . |
| 25 | Some Tories even forecast that Mr Major would quit voluntarily rather than face the humiliation of a Tory leadership challenge . |
| 26 | Some Tories even forecast that Mr Major would quit voluntarily rather than face the humiliation of a Tory leadership challenge . |
| 27 | Facing the dragon of the left corridor was better than facing a typewriting ghost ! |
| 28 | Humane destruction is not easy to face , but fear of the unknown is often far worse than facing the truth . |
| 29 | As legal aid is available for appeals to the Employment Appeal Tribunal , the applicant has a chance of pursuing his unfair dismissal claim rather than facing the prospect of bringing a negligence action against the adviser . |