Example sentences of "than [verb] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was beset by the realization that she desired nothing more than to go to the Hall as Anne Mowbray 's companion . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Cut and sew is very much easier than shaping on the machine so do try it if you have not already done so . |
| 9 | Mr Bewick was criticised strongly yesterday by Mr Sells for carrying out too many operations rather than reflecting on the ethics involved . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | What could be more refreshing , for instance , than to sit in the sun sipping a glass of one of the latest fruit wines ? |
| 19 | When painting during redecorating , I 've sometimes had to remove a telephone cable and staples from the skirting , to make a neat job of it , rather than paint over the cable . |
| 20 | Often , these strategies were invented by the pupils rather than taught by the teacher . |
| 21 | But seeing off Michael Meacher proved substantially easier than seeing off the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 22 | Annual railway construction more than trebled between the end of the 1880s and the boom years of the late 1890s . |
| 23 | Thus , in spite of substantial emigration , the population of Lewis more than trebled during the course of the 19th century . |
| 24 | That more than trebled under the Tories to £285 a week , or £14,800 per annum . |
| 25 | Even before 1905 , a solidly-based mass press had come into being , and in the last decade of the Empire there was an explosion in the publication of newspapers , while the number of books appearing more than trebled in the first decade and a half of the century . |
| 26 | You are to make yourself the master of a particular sub-topic or sub-sub-topic rather than prepare for the year 's examination in the whole subject . |
| 27 | I 'd rather stand than sit on the Kop , and it 's obvious that certain of Shankly 's thoughts and methods are still considered and used . |
| 28 | So rather than sit at the counter and do it they they have rooms which you can go to and erm get interviewed |
| 29 | Graham 's devotion to his family has always been such that he drives home every night from Test matches in London rather than stay in the team hotel . |
| 30 | From here it 's a doddle to sort out train times and connections — it 's probably cheaper than trying to ring up and get through to BR 's phone lines and definitely easier to use than wading through the paper version . |