Example sentences of "than [prep] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Welfare feminists were concerned with the health and welfare of working-class women , especially the relief of their poverty , rather than with pressing for changes in the role of women in the family . |
| 2 | In fact , we 'd much rather spend any extra time available for getting these students through their modules than in trying for the additional assessment . |
| 3 | Many people spend more time planning a holiday than in preparing for retirement , which may well occupy up to thirty years of life . |
| 4 | But one thing seems clear : during the past decade the Government has been more intent on reducing the powers of local authorities than on providing for fundamental changes in the social conditions of the inner cities . |
| 5 | Decisions on the propriety of stocking a particular publication must depend very much on his or her own judgment and good sense , rather than on waiting for legal counsel . |
| 6 | The massive exodus of the rural populace to towns in Spain or abroad , which began in earnest towards the end of the 1950s , bore witness to the priority given , in the Francoist scale of values , to preserving the patrimony of the strong , rather than to caring for the welfare of the weak . |
| 7 | In all such cases the prevalence of such actions and the possibilities for their control are better accounted for by addressing the question of what it is that usually inhibits the actions , rather than by accounting for how the motivations arise . |
| 8 | I believe that by arguing along these lines socialists may be able to raise more popular support than by arguing for ‘ nationalisation ’ and ‘ planning ’ in the abstract . |