Example sentences of "than [verb] [pron] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Dorrell continued : ’ In the past the Inland Revenue has , I am told , felt able to accept that the allowances paid to volunteers did no more than reimburse them for their actual expenses . |
| 2 | It 's a measure of their commitment to the cause of good design that their paramount concern is to make a page whose information can be readily absorbed , rather than to devise one for which the reader might need sunglasses . |
| 3 | The aim will be fulfilled if the teacher 's aid encourages self-help skills and good personal organisation by the pupil rather than doing everything for him in the way of fetching and returning materials . |
| 4 | As with values , it is probably best to assess your opponent 's objectives rather than to ask him for them . |
| 5 | If the animals had in any proper sense rights , we should no more be entitled to put them to death without a fair trial … than to torture them for our amusement . |