Example sentences of "than [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul 's opponents found it easier to agree in synod on his unworthiness for office than to eject him from the episcopal residence . |
| 2 | The nice complication then arises that to entertain the Copernican system seriously as a potentially true physical description , and subsequently to reject it , could be a more radical position than to accept it in the former sense . |
| 3 | Edmund Langley , born in 1342 and created Earl of Cambridge in 1362 , was granted part of the Warenne inheritance to maintain his estate , but his marriage to Isabella , youngest daughter of Pedro I of Castile , was used to further Gaunt 's diplomatic schemes rather than to provide him with an adequate endowment . |
| 4 | " If that 's the trouble , you could n't do better than to entrust her to the skilled understanding of the Sisters . " |
| 5 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 6 | In other words , the aim is to neutralize a troublesome feeling rather than to replace it with a positive feeling . |
| 7 | It 's faster to read data from the cache than to load it from the hard disk . |
| 8 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 9 | It is interesting to note that it is the present policy of some authorities to allow such a prisoner to die rather than to submit him to the indignity of forcible feeding . |
| 10 | If you do not know what documents you have and how they relate to one another , your priority should be to put them in order rather than to transfer them to an electronic system . |
| 11 | He has grasped that it is more profitable to attack the Government for incompetence and negligence than to present it as a systematic and all-too-competent conspiracy against the people . |
| 12 | One such article , written by the General Secretary , was ordered to be printed and the editor had no option other than to deliver it to the printers . |
| 13 | On one occasion , when George Brown was to give a seminal broadcast on a new financial plan , Wigg , who had been assigned by the Prime Minister to ensure , or to endeavour to ensure , that Brown arrived at Broadcasting House respectably sober , could think of nothing better to do than to consign him in the early afternoon to the sitting-room in my flat at Ashley Gardens . |
| 14 | ‘ Personally , I ca n't think of anything I 'd like more than to have you as a brother-in-law . ’ |
| 15 | Freud 's psychology belongs to the kind which seeks to understand human behaviour rather than to explain it on a scientific basis ; that is , it is verstehende psychology rather than erklärende psychology . |
| 16 | At the weekends when my Ma and Dad wanted a bit of peace , it was usually easier to send me to bide with Uncle Bill than to take me in the bus to my Uncle Geordie at Dalkeith . |
| 17 | To take a trivial example , it is a cost rather than a benefit for me to pay my children to clean my car rather than to take it to the automatic car wash , even if the car wash charges more than my children . |
| 18 | The technology necessary to produce films , and television and radio programs , is so much more advanced in the industrialised countries than in the LDCs , that it is frequently much simpler and cheaper to import material than to produce it in the Third World . |