Example sentences of "than [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing is more heartbreaking than to see a beautiful glider damaged by incompetent handling on the ground . |
| 2 | In eight out of ten catchments the report 's authors calculated that the immediate cost of water treatment or blending was less than the ‘ local cost ’ of farming measures , but , once Exchequer savings from reduced agricultural production were included ( i.e. savings in public grants and subsidies paid to farmers to produce crops ) , in most cases it was cheaper to establish protection zones with curbs on farming than to treat the polluted water . |
| 3 | Many Americans would prefer to think that Lee Iacocca singlehandedly saved Chrysler from bankruptcy than to accept the real story : a large team of people with diverse backgrounds and interests joined together to rescue the ailing company . |
| 4 | Oh nothing is worse Than to flog a dead horse |
| 5 | In these conditions it should not be necessary to use direct-feed chemical fertilizers , herbicides , or pesticides other than to meet an occasional crisis , probably caused by a slip-up in our husbandry . |
| 6 | ‘ What greater joy than to find a loving companion ? |
| 7 | Nothing can be more exasperating to the borrower of library books than to find a vital page or two missing from the denouement of his thriller . |
| 8 | You will also find that to generate the right question is usually more difficult than to find the right answer . |
| 9 | It makes more sense to enquire into his attempts to reform this woman , and then to glorify her and her child in a whole series of marvellous drawings , than to establish a dubious fatherhood he in any case assumed at the outset , emotionally and spiritually and with the utmost delight . |
| 10 | Very frequently judges sought to bring the parties to an amicable settlement ( which was more likely to be observed ) rather than to pass an outright sentence . |
| 11 | In practice the express remedies were actually in many cases fairly limited , so that the effect of such guarantees was rather to avoid the manufacturer 's liability than to provide an additional remedy . |
| 12 | After early work on the design and building of hostels for the Ministry of Supply , Holford was recruited to the Reconstruction Group to serve Lord Reith at the Ministry of Works ; his job , together with that of a team assembled under him and a career civil servant , H.L.G. Vincent , was no less than to secure an immediate strengthening of the planning system and the encouragement of planning work in local authorities . |
| 13 | In other words the objective is to escape from an uncomfortable position rather than to reach a particular destination . |
| 14 | While he did not glamorize the Munich settlement , he insisted that ‘ the Prime Minister was right to choose the catastrophe of yielding to improper procedure rather than to choose the terrible catastrophe of war . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's better to remain a maid , than to wed the wrong man . ’ |
| 16 | Is n't it a far better use of public money to create training and job creation rather than to buy a prime site with public money ? |
| 17 | ‘ At least I 'm old enough to know better than to buy a crappy kitsch china schweinhund like this , ’ he retorted . |
| 18 | The article , then , is exploratory rather than definitive , inciting theory rather than assuming it , attempting to open up some territory or to clear some ground rather than to fortify a final position . |
| 19 | In fact , on a fast PC with an average hard disk , it can be quicker to load a smaller file and decompress rather than to load the full-sized equivalent . |
| 20 | It is more useful to argue the variable nature of the relationship between the individual and society than to assume a linear evolution towards the autonomous self . |
| 21 | He knew better than to expect a detailed answer . |
| 22 | In the present circumstances , it is more important to widen the Community — to include the nations of EFTA and the new democracies of eastern Europe — than to deepen the political union among the Twelve . |
| 23 | We might feel inclined to say : Well , that is a pity , but it would be a greater evil to interfere ; it would be worse to make the law uncertain than to leave a particular hardship unredressed . |
| 24 | Children often match the colours of their equipment , but sometimes the smallest spade is the same colour as the largest bucket and further conversation can be encouraged as they discover it is not always easier to fill a small bucket with a large spade , than to fill a large bucket with a small spade . |
| 25 | It would be far more useful to Africa to have a smaller amount of total aid on this basis , than to retain the present system where thinking and strategy is dominated by donors , to the extent that national governments have almost lost control over public initiatives in their own countries . |
| 26 | It will nearly always be easier subsequently to reach agreement to extend the partnership than to persuade an elderly partner to stand down voluntarily before the contractual date : hence the relative unpopularity of agreements which simply permit a partner at his option to retire upon reaching a certain age . |
| 27 | So it was much easier if you had n't got a lot of money to fake some action , and produce some fake Boer war newsreels than to do the real thing . |
| 28 | The ‘ opt out ’ method taken by the current system is not ideal but it is preferable for a system to admit it 's ignorance than to submit an incorrect suggestion . |
| 29 | If the speaker 's main intention was to communicate information about temporal order , she would be more likely to use a temporal connective such as before , after or then than to use a causal connective . |
| 30 | Since a number of key personnel served in more than one section and since the new body had plenary as well as sectional meetings , it makes better sense to speak of a single " Commission " than to use the plural terminology of contemporaries . |