Example sentences of "than [to-vb] it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , it costs less for New York and New Jersey to send their rubbish halfway across America than to tip it at home . |
| 2 | It is only recently that I discovered that we are all born potentially good , demanding love and wanting nothing more than to give it in return . |
| 3 | There is a sense in which the challenge to convention can become a convention in itself ; it is easier to say that a multitude of views will be tolerated than to put it into practice . |
| 4 | Well this is the risk you have to take but er , and it 's a , it 's a profit at this stage where er people are coming up to receiving lump sums in retirement and wonder how best to invest it , well seems to me there 's no better investment than to , than to put it into tax free sources that you have available to you . |
| 5 | There was no easier way of embarrassing another Arab state than to charge it with betrayal of the Palestinian cause . |