Example sentences of "than have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are most interested in how you come across to other people , whether they think you are witty or pretty , rather than having a genuine interest in them and their views . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's worse than having a teething baby , ’ Ruby grumbled . |
| 3 | Voters will get a better deal with a hung parliament and are more likely to get the decisions they want , rather than having a single party riding roughshod over their wishes , as in the community charge , claims Liberal Democrat candidate Suzanne Fletcher . |
| 4 | But the recession may even be healthy in making it more difficult to publish the second-rate , he argues : rather than having a clear strategy of which subjects they would concentrate on , far too many academic publishers were happy simply to print a selection of the manuscripts they were sent , including multi-authored books and conference proceedings which tended to be of limited academic market . |
| 5 | It would be better to operate on the present system and to get that right than to have a discriminatory cow premium . |
| 6 | And what nicer way to round off the evening than to have a quiet nightcap on the terrace with new-found friends , or take a gentle moonlit stroll along the beach . |
| 7 | I 'm a secretary to pay the rent , and a very lazy ex-ballerina with no ambitions other than to have a happy life and be free . |
| 8 | But even if one considers those women in the modern western world who are less fortunate , they still have , for example , an entirely different legal status than had a first-century woman . |
| 9 | In terms of legislative proposals , lobbying the assembly is more important in the United States , especially for groups wishing to exercise a negative or veto power to stop a proposal rather than have a new proposal passed . |
| 10 | In my professional view , cos if the new settlement has to be in is ch is i has to be within the greenbelt then it 's better to go for peripheral development rather than have a new settlement in the first place . |
| 11 | Trusts within this locality , er are , a little bit further afield than , than , are actually looking a towards Patient Focused Hospitals , where in actual fact everything , every , every treatment a patient is dealt with on the ward , rather than have a skilled nurse undertaking part of the treatment , there will be multi-skilling so er the member of staff will be multi-skilled to perform almost every single aspect of erm care directly on a ward . |
| 12 | than have a full scale asthmatic attack . |
| 13 | So what you need to do is rather than have a big block of writing okay which is going to look not really in the format of this kind of newspaper is it ? what you tend to get in the tabloids is loads of these little ones . |