Example sentences of "than [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense . |
| 2 | Upfront and honest , she is concerned about rights and wrongs and would rather die shouting for a cause than hide behind a corporate banner . |
| 3 | In those days , she might have been no more mad than to fall for a handsome stranger and carry his child . |
| 4 | It is a better strategy to create resources for industrialization to go for a rich peasant economy than to go for a middle peasant economy . |
| 5 | Would not it be far better to seek an effective non-proliferation treaty than to go for a new generation of nuclear weapons ? |
| 6 | It is easier , for example , to say ‘ Jezebel ’ than to go into a particular description of a certain sort of woman . |
| 7 | It has been much easier to give an overdraft than to go through the whole process of studying a plan for the business and coming up with longer term loan financing . |
| 8 | In many cases the large size of a company , which is the source of its market power , may enable it to make cost savings which , although not fully passed on , more than compensate for the distorting effects of an uncompetitive market structure . |
| 9 | However , most people who join the industry feel that the interesting nature of the work and career opportunities more than compensate for the unusual hours they are expected to work . |
| 10 | As a consequence , greater virulence should be favoured if enough offspring of other wasps can be infected to more than compensate for the subsequent loss of extra offspring from the current host . |
| 11 | These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields . |
| 12 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 13 | For those who would like a more relaxing evening , what better than to sit at an open air cafe , sipping an ice cold beer , listening to the local brass band in the village square and watching the sun slip down behind the mountains — perfect ! |
| 14 | And in my experience , this sort of transcendence is not involved in anorexia nervosa , where the material world has to be grappled with and controlled , rather than dismissed as an ultimate unreality . |
| 15 | For example , electronic ignition is a lot simpler than struggling with an old distributor . |
| 16 | The West had now to adapt itself to a lengthy period of Cold War competition with the USSR rather than prepare for an imminent crisis . |
| 17 | Rather than stay in a stuffy room we decided to carry on with our lessons out of sight of the road in the back garden , which was more distracting but more pleasant . |
| 18 | The advance of this critical period , however , can not easily be linked to the idea of a body clock which tends to run fast and so produce daily rhythms which are timed too early because , when daily rhythms have been investigated in these patients , it appears that daily rhythms are irregular , rather than altered in a particular direction . |
| 19 | Manucci 's account of Mughal India is as full of gossip as Bernier 's , but the precarious manner in which he chose to live his life meant that his book has rather more action in it : rather than fussing about the relative merits of Parisian and Mughal architecture , he fights as an artilleryman in the Mughal civil war , has his caravan ambushed by bandits , battles with a pressgang and is finally besieged in a fort on an island in the Indus . |
| 20 | Extensive canvassing showed the race issue to be , at best , marginal , more than counter-balanced by a strong pro-Taylor vote from many non-Tory constituents . |
| 21 | In this latter group of patients it may be more efficient to proceed directly to a trial of amiodarone or ICD placement rather than to proceed with a lengthy course of serial drug testing . |
| 22 | I find knitting from a pattern in the Design Controller even easier than knitting with a mylar sheet . |
| 23 | The speakers hardly whine and Jim Reid now sings with a US accent , rather than mumbling in a Scots one — it all sounds improbably adult-oriented . |
| 24 | But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself . |
| 25 | Rather than wait for the groaning lift , I use the stairs . |
| 26 | The prospective councillors will number two dozen ( rather than the sparse but active dozen originally sought ) ; there will continue to be a rather odd balance of journalists and lay members , selected rather than nominated by a quangoid committee . |
| 27 | The prospective councillors will number two dozen ( rather than the sparse but active dozen originally sought ) ; there will continue to be a rather odd balance of journalists and lay members , selected rather than nominated by a quangoid committee . |
| 28 | In 1977 , the Labour Health Secretary David Ennals said : ‘ In the present economic climate the Government can do little more than provide for the increasing number of old people , leaving a small margin for improvements in method of treatment . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Science ’ became rather more flexible around 1870 , when organised labour looked like becoming a permanent actor on the industrial scene , rather than appearing in an occasional brief walk-on part . |
| 30 | The point ( compared with cooperative acquisition ) is that all the purchased items are centralized at a site on the University of Chicago , rather than scattered amongst the participating libraries . |