Example sentences of "[vb infin] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accept the fact that some buyers will inevitably respond negatively , but be confident that more will buy than if no close had been used . |
| 2 | Boldly patterned and strongly coloured rugs need more space than those with more delicate compositions and pastel shades . |
| 3 | Anthony Scrivener referred to the Bill as unique in jurisprudence because a defendant can be guilty of the aggravated offence even though he does no other act than commit the basic offence , and the event which makes the crime aggravated is outside his or her control . |
| 4 | ‘ I only know that there is more that I do not know than that I know , , I answered . |
| 5 | It was pointed out that candidates obtaining low marks in public examinations were demonstrating more of what they did not know than what they did know . |
| 6 | Taking steps to ensure that Queen Victoria was informed of Leopold 's candidature while ignoring Napoleon III was in itself an insult , for France was certainly more directly concerned in the matter than England and the Emperor had better need than the Queen to be told directly . |
| 7 | Well , how much more of an invitation does a man need than that ? |
| 8 | For goodness sake , how much more of a statement do you need than your house burning down ? |
| 9 | As the troubadour Pous de Capdeuil put it , " What more can kings desire than the right to save themselves from hell-fire by mighty deeds of arms ? " |
| 10 | When the idea was broached I had told Ira Dilworth that I would sooner resign than transfer to Toronto and he agreed entirely . |
| 11 | Why did he say he would rather resign than do a deal over PR , unless he knew he would n't have to ? |
| 12 | He had already done that ; what greater proof did he want than her immobility in his arms ? |
| 13 | Leaks were a constant hazard of the first 1979–83 Thatcher Government and none did us more damage than this . |
| 14 | It was a charge that was to dog us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections , and which did us more damage than any other health issue . |
| 15 | In fact the report was so useless that it did more damage than had Mitterand kept silent . |
| 16 | The big problem with this sort of fine-tuning , advisers said , was that it usually did more damage than it corrected . |
| 17 | As for the will to be a nation : paradoxically , the Thatcherite decade of celebrating the international market over notions of the national good , of decentralising the national interest into five million privately-owned share packages , did more damage than any amount of scheming from Brussels . |
| 18 | He said he hoped his contrition would end the controversy as ‘ dragging on such issues always does more damage than good ’ . |
| 19 | mouse does more damage than Puddy |
| 20 | If the husband did not fulfil his obligation to maintain , then on balance it was considered preferable for the wife to go out and earn than for the whole family to become chargeable to the Poor Law . |
| 21 | the evidence that we 've found out already from C H C is that the operation of the N H S reforms has restrictive patient choice because crucially those referrals to London teaching hospitals which used to made as a matter of course if treatment is unable er , unavailable in Harlow have actually been largely stopped , I got the detailed figures from the purchasing director erm er , recently in the C F C minutes and it shows a miniscule number of patients being referred to London teaching hospitals erm , and this is clearly the reason as this points out in this paper that London teaching hospitals are in serious financial problems and four of them , indeed are being threatened with closure by the Tomlinson report and I think many patients in Harlow would much rather as er , people have pointed out , go to er , Middlesex and U C H , should they still exist than to go to Colchester and er , but this is this a key question , so on the the basis of the this consortium does n't meet those criticisms indeed , make the situation worse I move that we oppose it in principle that Vince reports on that line . |
| 22 | He then states that he would rather not exist than live to have to serve and be in awe of a man no better than himself . |
| 23 | ‘ We can not forecast the success of a reversal operation in an individual case , but we can now tell each patient that it is more likely the operation will succeed than fail , ’ she said . |
| 24 | If I 'd less sense than I have , I 'd have believed them . |
| 25 | There has probably never been more choice for places in which you can invest than now . |
| 26 | Yes , and in one day here you 'll find more to see and do than two weeks spent almost anywhere else . |
| 27 | What more can I do than apologize ? |
| 28 | Grades are more to be blamed for what they do not do than for what they do do . |
| 29 | It is a sign of the times that Mr Franco 's plan is being praised more for what it did not do than what it did . |
| 30 | What more could I do than I had already done ? |