Example sentences of "than [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if Dr Mumby 's right , Turtle fans may find that rather than helping the good guys , they could instead get a cow bunger clobbering from the Turtle team by turning into the baddies . |
| 2 | I feel there can be few more worthy objects for the book-collector who is suitably placed geographically than gathering the printed products of his town or city through the centuries . |
| 3 | Arguably , the defence has no evidential burden to discharge in this situation , for , since the defence is seeking to do no more than deny the basic elements of the prosecution 's case , any assertion of consent by the defence should be placed before the jury . |
| 4 | It would be worthless to dwell on the strengths and weaknesses of the regrading exercise here , other than to acknowledge the apparent difficulties associated with it . |
| 5 | Bernice felt rather than heard the two explosions , like a double heartbeat , and then the corridor was filled with flames . |
| 6 | Dulles did more than make the customary recommendations that the policies of the colonial powers keep abreast of local political aspirations . |
| 7 | The benefits which you would derive from a properly set up and run computerised accounting system should more than out-weigh the additional costs involved . |
| 8 | However , it must be stressed at the outset that we can do no more here than to indicate the basic principles involved , and give illustrations of a few of the almost innumerable variants of basic methods that exist . |
| 9 | Regrettably , most other television programmes , notably ‘ fly on the wall ’ documentaries from Yorkshire Television and Central have sought to expose the inadequate conditions in which many mentally handicapped people live , especially in long stay hospitals , rather than discuss the progressive steps being made in the care of the mentally handicapped in Britain today . |
| 10 | The firm reckons that discounters will eventually end up cannibalising each other 's market share rather than damaging the bigger chains . |
| 11 | The general principles just outlined apply in sale of goods , for although there are sections of the Sale of Goods Act governing the assessment of damages , those sections do little more than embody the general principles . |
| 12 | No more low-tech warming of domestic water supplies — these scientists were trying nothing less than to mimic the early stages of photosynthesis , it collecting solar photons and trapping their energy in an act of electronic charge separation . |
| 13 | There has been much debate since the Judicature Acts as to whether they did something more than fuse the two systems at a procedural level , namely to change the substantive law . |
| 14 | This number more than met the 1,119 houses that were needed in 1951 to eradicate undesirable overcrowding and subtenancy . |
| 15 | On his instructions , the bombardment was intense but lasted less than a day , its object being to take out selected points in the enemy 's defence , rather than to destroy the Austrian trenches . |
| 16 | Gohlke tells a more subtle story than made the early headlines . |
| 17 | In the video Jones is , in the main , observing rather than advocating the ruthless antics of the hard men . |
| 18 | Finding ways of soothing political opposition to the dumping of highly radioactive waste could prove more difficult than solving the scientific problems . |
| 19 | Rather than store the complete words in a lexicon , such systems store the probabilities of letter transitions . |
| 20 | It 's easier to guess why a reduction in market share is taking place than obtain the basic facts and make improvements . |
| 21 | From what I have said so far it may sound as if the Prague School did no more than restate the Russian Formalists ' theories in more systematic language . |
| 22 | Fitting the new components is a little more difficult than removing the old ones . |
| 23 | Mr. Noyce firmly believes that the work of Outreach is even more important than providing the improved facilities at the church itself . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Rather than disappoint the young actors plans are in hand to perform The Wizard of Oz instead . |
| 26 | Remember attracting just one additional child from outside the area will , under LMS , more than repay the entire costs of printing the prospectus . |
| 27 | The strategy adopted for the defence of absolutism and reason is firstly to protect philosophy from the intrusion of the sociology of knowledge and secondly to assert that there is simply no other way than having the absolute standards of reason . |
| 28 | Rather than having the unskilled parts of the operation — the lifting and placing — performed by the robot , and the skilled part — the welding — performed by the welder , the opposite solution was adopted . |
| 29 | There is no easy solution to this one , other than doing the first ones at a safe altitude , which means at some speed since it is difficult to fly slowly at any height or distance . |
| 30 | The government should devote its energies to making sure that criminals are caught and imprisoned , rather than undermining the civil rights of citizens . |