Example sentences of "than [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the ’ prudence ’ concept is followed there should be a tendency to undervalue rather than overvalue stock in the building industry . |
| 2 | It was a common enough pressure in Hollywood , where all the studios played the committee 's game rather than risk loss at the box office . |
| 3 | Most PAYE settlements involve minor technical errors and misunderstandings rather than deliberate disregard for the P11D and other reporting regulations . |
| 4 | Rather than reject Marxism on the grounds that it had been disproved by history , as Merleau-ponty had done , he sought to account for Stalinism through a dialectical analysis of the specific history of the Soviet Union since the Revolution : theory and practice , he argued , had become separated with the result that the former had become ‘ sclerosed ’ while the latter had become ‘ blind ’ and ‘ unprincipled ’ ( I , 50 ) . |
| 5 | Deprived , and often also dirty , these ageing social outcasts , rather than ask help of the community , chose to huddle together . |
| 6 | How his ancestors had left the meat that Queen Victoria had sent over to them to fight in the streets rather than accept help from the English . |