Example sentences of "than [to-vb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a three-eight Webley revolver , which Mallachy derided as an infamously inefficient piece , issued for God knows how long to British Army officers , and policemen , and other types who knew no better than to accept it as their side-arm . |
| 2 | The nice complication then arises that to entertain the Copernican system seriously as a potentially true physical description , and subsequently to reject it , could be a more radical position than to accept it in the former sense . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , it costs less for New York and New Jersey to send their rubbish halfway across America than to tip it at home . |
| 4 | In other words , the aim is to neutralize a troublesome feeling rather than to replace it with a positive feeling . |
| 5 | It 's faster to read data from the cache than to load it from the hard disk . |
| 6 | What could be more arrogant than to deny it to them ? ’ |
| 7 | It is only recently that I discovered that we are all born potentially good , demanding love and wanting nothing more than to give it in return . |
| 8 | There is a sense in which the challenge to convention can become a convention in itself ; it is easier to say that a multitude of views will be tolerated than to put it into practice . |
| 9 | Well this is the risk you have to take but er , and it 's a , it 's a profit at this stage where er people are coming up to receiving lump sums in retirement and wonder how best to invest it , well seems to me there 's no better investment than to , than to put it into tax free sources that you have available to you . |
| 10 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 11 | He has grasped that it is more profitable to attack the Government for incompetence and negligence than to present it as a systematic and all-too-competent conspiracy against the people . |
| 12 | One such article , written by the General Secretary , was ordered to be printed and the editor had no option other than to deliver it to the printers . |
| 13 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 14 | There was no easier way of embarrassing another Arab state than to charge it with betrayal of the Palestinian cause . |
| 15 | Freud 's psychology belongs to the kind which seeks to understand human behaviour rather than to explain it on a scientific basis ; that is , it is verstehende psychology rather than erklärende psychology . |
| 16 | To take a trivial example , it is a cost rather than a benefit for me to pay my children to clean my car rather than to take it to the automatic car wash , even if the car wash charges more than my children . |
| 17 | The technology necessary to produce films , and television and radio programs , is so much more advanced in the industrialised countries than in the LDCs , that it is frequently much simpler and cheaper to import material than to produce it in the Third World . |