Example sentences of "than [verb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We had no motive other than to enjoy our holiday , ’ said Auguste a little pathetically . |
| 2 | When she saw him , she let out a little cry ( that bit took ages to rehearse : every bit that required Lady Laetitia to do more than flash her tits took ages ) , then turned and ran to the end of the room . |
| 3 | But it looks much quicker than re-tracing our steps . ’ |
| 4 | She 's cut out for better things than wasting her time on some blue-eyed , grease-stained English Romeo . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Avoiding further confrontation , the East Germans release the British soldier without further incident , other than contacting his insurance company the next day . |
| 8 | Tony did no more than repeat his run of the morning . |
| 9 | Few things are more infuriating for a woman who is denied comfort for her own tears than to see her partner being sympathetically and sensually attracted to a strange woman who is grieving . |
| 10 | As it is , it 's the family who takes responsibility for denying the baby existence , though permitting its death rather than allowing its life . |
| 11 | Certainly if farmers wish to have a suitably skilled and motivated labour force by the late 1980s they will have to do more to recognize the farm worker 's quite legitimate aspirations and to help rather than hinder his search for ‘ a place in the sun ’ . |
| 12 | I have a tendency to cast people by talking to them , rather than seeing their work , on the assumption that if you have a good casting director they do n't send you rubbish . |
| 13 | He loves driving , rather than seeing his car as a way of getting him from A to B , and sees his car as a status symbol , and means to power and freedom . |
| 14 | Herzen had founded a " Free Russian Press " almost immediately after arriving in England in 1853 , but the fifteen flysheets and brochures he published between then and 1855 did little more than lose him money . |
| 15 | ‘ I accused him of that , ’ I said , proud of having anticipated Ellen 's diagnosis , ‘ and he told me he 'd rather lose the election than lose his children . ’ |
| 16 | The General Assembly on Sept. 22 voted by 127 votes to six ( Kenya , Swaziland , Tanzania , Yugoslavia , Zambia and Zimbabwe ) with 26 abstentions , to exclude the FRY from its proceedings and to ask it to apply for UN membership , rather than accepting its claim to succeed automatically to the General Assembly seat formerly held by the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( SFRY ) . |
| 17 | I was surprised at the violence of his remorse — after all , he had only hit me — and I remember thinking , quite irrelevantly , how much more true to life the old dramatists were than modern ones , making their characters utter loud cries and throw themselves about the stage in moments of anguish , rather than deliver their parts poker-faced , through stiff lips . |
| 18 | If we want studies of sex difference to work towards our liberation rather than perpetuating our subordination , we have to take this problem very seriously . |
| 19 | Medical research company Medirace , which is trying to develop a drug to treat cancer and Aids , is more than tripling its size through an £87million takeover . |
| 20 | Hardly more than easing its weight |
| 21 | Dr Scott , from long experience , did no more than wrinkle his nose at the odour of decay , and spent twenty minutes there , mostly occupied with a careful consideration of the head . |
| 22 | Dublin , with a load of chromium-polluted effluent , decided that going home for his tea was a more attractive proposition than completing his run . |
| 23 | For him it was a question of identity rather than creed and , particularly in a period of rising anti-semitism , he could no more deny his ancestry than change his name . |
| 24 | Collect rainwater to use on the garden rather than using your hose . |
| 25 | Green was certainly unlucky , losing to Wales 's Mark Newton in a bout in which he admitted he was drawn into a slugging match rather than using his skills . |
| 26 | In elections to the Landtag ( provincial parliament ) in Upper Austria on Oct. 6 the extreme right Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) more than tripled its share of the vote , winning 17.7 per cent ( 5 per cent in the last Upper Austria provincial elections in 1985 — see p. 34110 ) and 11 seats ( three hitherto ) . |
| 27 | Between 1970 and 1986 the Ivory Coast , often regarded as one of Africa 's success stories , more than tripled its cereals imports , its external debt rose more than thirty-fold , and food production per capita barely kept up with population growth ( World Bank , 1988 , Tables ) . |
| 28 | Since 1985 , Heidrick and Struggles in London has more than tripled its number of consultants — from five to fifteen — most of them at first new to search and comparatively young . |
| 29 | I decide to change , it 's easier than painting my nails again . |
| 30 | He threw his energy into doing what he knew he did well — keeping the customer satisfied ( sabotage attempt number three ) rather than widening his market , putting up his prices and concentrating on how to make more money . |