Example sentences of "than [v-ing] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is usually more valuable than generating an allowable loss for capital gains tax purposes . |
| 2 | just as when reading a favourite novel , we create the people and places described as we see them , so we draw on our own images and imagination to enrich our inner world , rather than accepting an unknown intruder — the voice on the tape . |
| 3 | Operating the 238S requires a separate mixer , which I actually find easier than using an all-in-one machine because working alone and trying to remember complicated bounces and mixes and all the things which have to go on tape is hard enough , so routing signals through the desk seems to make more sense to an already cluttered mind . |
| 4 | Buying two wooden spoons can be more fun at this time than purchasing an expensive set of china in later years . |
| 5 | This would not only save money and help to curb the growth of the world 's stocks of separated plutonium ; it might also help to persuade Russia to dispose of its plutonium , rather than weaving an economic pipedream around it . |
| 6 | She half believed him now , simply because she knew a man like Luke would n't invent something of this nature , but the belief was shot through with a conviction that he was talking about more than sating an inconvenient lust . |
| 7 | It 'll take more time than buying an off-the-shelf solution , it wo n't be so neatly packaged , and there are a few ‘ gotchas ’ for the unwary . |
| 8 | Frequently , the consequences are misdiagnosed and treated as causes but this is no more justified than asking an educational psychologist to treat the disturbed thought processes of someone in pain from acute gout . |
| 9 | Rather than regarding an Anglo-French Union as a core of European unity , Churchill believed that the essential beginning was reconciliation between France and Germany . |
| 10 | It may be difficult to explain why a few minutes spent reading fourteen lines of Shakespeare should be a higher pleasure than reading an equivalent length of a James Bond story , but the analyses of literary criticism elucidate how in the former case one is living those few minutes in intensified awareness with an extraordinarily extended span , from the texture of the words sounding in one 's inner ear to the remotest implications for the living of one 's whole life . |
| 11 | Even at this early stage of contact between white and black in Britain , it is clear that she would have been building on already existing racial caricature and prejudice rather than creating an artificial tide of hostility against black people . |
| 12 | The justices said that they did this , rather than making an interim care order , to ensure the bonding of the children with their mother for their long term benefit . |
| 13 | It was inevitable that I was fully occupied by my fear rather than watching an Egyptian film , Abla and Anter , a classic Bedouin love story . |
| 14 | Services also tend to take this segmented approach rather than offering an integrated package of support services to families . |
| 15 | The Faculty 's mathematics courses will appeal , however , to those who , rather than following an orthodox mathematics course , want to apply mathematical and statistical methods in a vocationally relevant way to real industrial , commercial and other problems . ) |