Example sentences of "than [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officer was than joined from the next flat by security guard Christopher Coyle , 39 . |
| 2 | The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense . |
| 3 | Upfront and honest , she is concerned about rights and wrongs and would rather die shouting for a cause than hide behind a corporate banner . |
| 4 | If you are a well-known personality , attractive looking and charming , you will find your task much easier : people tend to respond to such individuals rather than reacting to the content of their message . |
| 5 | In those days , she might have been no more mad than to fall for a handsome stranger and carry his child . |
| 6 | Some take the profoundly defeatist view that the kicking and screaming which would accompany a successful revolt would do even more damage than sticking with the lady . |
| 7 | If diarrhoea is described in some particular terms rather than others ( e.g. if it described as empacho ) the patient is more likely to consult a traditional practitioner than to go to a health clinic . |
| 8 | I 'd sooner come to Cheltenham than to go to a holiday abroad . |
| 9 | She was beset by the realization that she desired nothing more than to go to the Hall as Anne Mowbray 's companion . |
| 10 | However , since she needed to fill her time until his return , what better way than to go to the capital city , and spend some days taking a look round ? |
| 11 | Would not it be far better to seek an effective non-proliferation treaty than to go for a new generation of nuclear weapons ? |
| 12 | It is a better strategy to create resources for industrialization to go for a rich peasant economy than to go for a middle peasant economy . |
| 13 | It is easier , for example , to say ‘ Jezebel ’ than to go into a particular description of a certain sort of woman . |
| 14 | It has been much easier to give an overdraft than to go through the whole process of studying a plan for the business and coming up with longer term loan financing . |
| 15 | Cut and sew is very much easier than shaping on the machine so do try it if you have not already done so . |
| 16 | They have also been successful in encouraging many traditional pet shops to sell pre-packed pet foods , rather than loose from a sack . |
| 17 | Mr Bewick was criticised strongly yesterday by Mr Sells for carrying out too many operations rather than reflecting on the ethics involved . |
| 18 | And those who take part in groups have to show a parallel commitment to working within the spirit of the process ; putting as much energy into listening as in talking , staying on task , collaborating rather than competing in the pursuit of common objectives . |
| 19 | Though in theory taking life was contrary to the tenets of Buddhism , it was considered more shocking to kill animals for other persons , or for their hides , than to kill for a meal . |
| 20 | However , most people who join the industry feel that the interesting nature of the work and career opportunities more than compensate for the unusual hours they are expected to work . |
| 21 | As a consequence , greater virulence should be favoured if enough offspring of other wasps can be infected to more than compensate for the subsequent loss of extra offspring from the current host . |
| 22 | In many cases the large size of a company , which is the source of its market power , may enable it to make cost savings which , although not fully passed on , more than compensate for the distorting effects of an uncompetitive market structure . |
| 23 | The popularity of arbitrage portfolios suggests that the advantages more than compensate for the risk that the value of the arbitrage portfolio will deviate from the index at delivery . |
| 24 | These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields . |
| 25 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 26 | He sat down on a small bedside chair , leaving Culley and Dawson no other option than to sit on the bed , which they did , side by side , like travellers on a train . |
| 27 | For those who would like a more relaxing evening , what better than to sit at an open air cafe , sipping an ice cold beer , listening to the local brass band in the village square and watching the sun slip down behind the mountains — perfect ! |
| 28 | Mr Prichard remembers his grandmother as a warm but private person who liked nothing more than to sit beside the Thames at her home in Cholsey and to tend her beloved roses . |
| 29 | Whether it 's the Police Band or one from a nearby mill town , there are fewer nicer ways to end a summer day in Leeds than to sit in a deckchair at sunset , listening to the haunting sound of the trumpets and trombones . |
| 30 | What could be more refreshing , for instance , than to sit in the sun sipping a glass of one of the latest fruit wines ? |