Example sentences of "than [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So rather than sit at the counter and do it they they have rooms which you can go to and erm get interviewed |
| 2 | She 's all grey , rather than freckled at the moment , but this chick is still something very special to staff at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust . |
| 3 | Her eyes were wide with sworls of silver and blue brighter than looking at the sun at its zenith in the longest day of summer . |
| 4 | I do not know what the hon. Gentleman means , but I regret that , as ever — and typically of Labour Members — the hon. Gentleman seems to glory in gloom and despondency in identifying the more negative aspects of things , rather than looking at the positive . |
| 5 | Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent . |
| 6 | Rather than looking at the proposal we decided that it was so that 's what we did really and that 's why , if you have a look down there right , so all we 're doing then we 're working through the resources and allocating them room numbers erm and then when that 's done so that 's what we did for each of the little rooms . |
| 7 | It 's something very close to what I 'm saying erm and erm I 'm saying perhaps one thing in addition , which is that just as when we look into the future , which , as a historian , I 'm asked to do more often , I think , these days than looking at the past , but when we look into the future , we have different versions of what that future will be . |
| 8 | It 's probably no more pleasant than living at the centre of some large , dirty , crime-ridden city . |
| 9 | Then I went through the samples in my kitchen and realised that , rather than look at the non-mainstream areas , I could look at wines from perfectly accepted areas that broke the usual conventions ; or in one brilliant example , I could see what great traditional winemakers — in this case a pair of Burgundian grandees — could do when they decided to rough it a bit in France 's far south . |
| 10 | The idea of confidence runs thus : Rather than look at the probability of getting this precise result , we find the probability of getting a less likely observed result . |
| 11 | What is easier than to look at the most conspicuous item in the marketing budget and one which is largely the concern of an outside supplier , at that ? |
| 12 | Clearly , it shows a very much more complex structure than exists at the moment ( see Figure 3.1a ) . |
| 13 | The position of the mother would be one of even greater dependence than exists at the moment . |
| 14 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 15 | It is particularly attractive to firms with strong institutional placing power ; retail firms prefer to sell at issue price , retaining full fees as profit , rather than selling at the lower fixed reoffer price set by the lead manager . |
| 16 | In 797 Barcelona , the main Catalonian city , fell to the Franks and the Saracen governor , Zeid , rebelling against his master in Cordova , sought vassalage with the Christians rather than defeat at the hands of a fellow Moslem . |
| 17 | It was a time when children were encouraged to fantasize about machines and outer space rather than marvel at the open spaces where the deer and buffalo roamed . |
| 18 | Its universality as far as human life is concerned depends on when it actually happened , and we can do no more than guess at the date . |
| 19 | Nor can we do more than guess at the consequences of the Greek ignorance of Latin . |
| 20 | However , the reduction in railway employment was offset by the growth of activity in the Post Office , and changes in bus service employment were less than feared at the time of ‘ deregulation ’ ( 1987 ) . |
| 21 | I expect a Public Sector Borrowing Requirement in the current financial year of £35 billion , slightly lower than projected at the time of my Autumn Statement . |
| 22 | We need to look , then , for the specific practices that produce gender roles rather than stopping at the roles themselves . |
| 23 | Rather than alight at the Gare du Nord railway terminal , they stayed on for another stop , leaving at Châtelet in the centre of the city . |
| 24 | Lady followed her example rather than suffer at the hands of her infuriated master . |
| 25 | Though the next decade quickly reversed the conservatism of the 1950s , the notion that British fiction lacks experimental energy , or even just quality , still survives ; a partially accurate picture , based upon a lapse in the experimental tradition less complete than suggested at the time . |
| 26 | Much worse to begin too soon and reach the end too quickly , typed Goldberg , squinting at the manuscript before him , than to begin at the right time and reach the end too quickly . |
| 27 | Much worse to begin too soon and feel one has begun too soon than to begin at the right time and discover one has nothing to begin . |