Example sentences of "go [adv] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
| 2 | Even if the second pre-condition is met , Albert Reynolds is unlikely to go further than to promise that a referendum would be held , if everything else was agreed . |
| 3 | Lord Reid went on to say that the reason that the court will not enforce a restraint which goes further than affording protection to the legitimate interests of a party is because too wide a restraint is against the public interest . |
| 4 | If the answer to any of these three questions is that the restraint goes further than required , the restrictive covenant is likely to infringe Article 85(1) . |
| 5 | It was better not to go out than to go and fall down . |
| 6 | Would they accept what he had said and let them go rather than cause a scene ? |
| 7 | Oh yes , erm I think it was generally , er , they had to match the colouring of the rooms that they 'd got , the furniture they 'd got really because as far as the room was concerned er when , when the , new houses came onto the erm , ready for occupation , er they were all cream coloured inside and anyway and pale cream so they , they 'd got er any choice they wanted there it , really it was just to match their curtains , match their carpets , all their furnishings and erm , of course I suppose they , the rose coloured ones er went better than say the lemon coloured one and that because er people just er liked the idea of moving into a place that 's got a nice cosy glow in it , place sort of thing , but we never sell any at all , there 's , none of that type of fitting in , sold now . |
| 8 | He told himself that he was the last man who could reasonably be expected to advise or reassure on the problems of pregnancy and he sensed that Rickards 's unhappiness at his wife 's absence went deeper than missing her company . |
| 9 | She believed in love , but she had been too impatient , her eagerness to experience it persuading her to believe that what she had felt went deeper than liking and a mild physical attraction . |
| 10 | As to what counsel said there is a keen dispute which their Lordships can not resolve , beyond observing that there is nothing in the abbreviated note of the arguments in the district court to suggest that counsel went further than to point out that the immediate future of the B.M.F.L. prosecution was highly speculative . |
| 11 | The new deviance writers went further than suggesting that the appearance of crime ( on which positivists built their theories ) was in fact the product of the criminal justice system . |
| 12 | The HKRFU went further than asking . |
| 13 | This sometimes went further than raising the TOEFL entry fee and involved putting up guarantees for thousands of dollars for candidates . |
| 14 | Makarenko went further than making fun of educational inspectors . |
| 15 | I will not go further than to say ’ around 40 ’ , but we certainly intend to implement the programme that we set out in ’ Options for Change ’ . |
| 16 | Moreover , although the Rules sprang from this conflict , they did not in terms go further than saying that persons in custody should not be questioned without first being cautioned . |
| 17 | I 'd rather spend money doing that before they go out than send them out and the bloody things to have to come back again . |
| 18 | I tell you , I 'd rather go without than have that lot screw me . |
| 19 | To his credit , he had never engineered such postings and , in the early part of 1944 , he would rather have gone anywhere than remain in close proximity to Liza Tremayne . |
| 20 | There 's the often quoted comparison with our compatriots overseas that it 's cheaper to go overseas than stay at home , but I think , you know , with the range of accommodation , with the range of holidays now available in this country , I think the industry itself is competing very well and that the more and more people who find that they have n't yet discovered Britain will do so this year . |
| 21 | But when you think if you go to your corner shop and you , you do n't want a lot it 's cheaper to go there than to get in a car |