Example sentences of "than [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days , she might have been no more mad than to fall for a handsome stranger and carry his child . |
| 2 | ‘ Than to go for strychnine — that 's what it looks like to me , and you can see that he had a rough passage out . |
| 3 | Would not it be far better to seek an effective non-proliferation treaty than to go for a new generation of nuclear weapons ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Presbyterian , Daniel Williams , persuaded a meeting of London Dissenting ministers not to present an address of thanks to the King for the Indulgence , and argued that " it was better for them to be reduced to their former hardships , than declare for measures destructive of the liberties of their country " . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But the promotion of Gillian Shephard to the Cabinet should more than compensate for any misgivings ’ , Sangster said . |
| 8 | As luck would have it , my best friend is the most wonderful cook in the world , and her contributions to any cottage holiday more than compensate for those who come with a tin of sardines in tomato sauce and a Pot Noodle . |
| 9 | It could be the key to success because Coventry have free-running young players who can more than compensate for Quinn 's lack of mobility . |
| 10 | SEP had simply assumed that expenditure on upkeep would more than compensate for any deterioration of its warehouses ’ . |
| 11 | This may seem to be a gloomy picture but it must be noted that , in relation to work , age is not a large aspect of individual differences compared with natural endowment , and that increases in ability can more than compensate for small decreases in capacity . |
| 12 | In any branch of government , civil or military , promotion always came easier to a man who could add political interest to ability , and on occasion the active support of a great man could more than compensate for very limited abilities . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields . |
| 18 | The extra resources available from the uprated grant and loan more than compensate for what the majority of students could have claimed . |
| 19 | It has been suggested that the high levels of motivation found among successful mature students more than compensate for lower levels of formal qualifications which many have . |
| 20 | But they are ideally cast as Captain von Trapp and Max Detweiler respectively , and their imposing stage personalities more than compensate for their limitations as singers . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The West had now to adapt itself to a lengthy period of Cold War competition with the USSR rather than prepare for an imminent crisis . |
| 24 | It is better to begin abolishing serfdom from above than to wait for it to begin to abolish itself from below . |
| 25 | Cost , not quality , ideology not competence , delivery for profit rather than service for people — those are the slogans that we have had from this regime . |
| 26 | However , imperfectly practised , this approach at least recognises that health care intervention must supplement that of the parents rather than substitute for it . |
| 27 | And the writer can only conjure up this gift for the reader if he/she is prepared , first of all , to write plainly what he/she believes to be true , rather than fall for the surface sweetmeats which seem to satisfy but which , like sugar , leave the reader hungry minutes later . |
| 28 | Friends believe he may take the post rather than wait for a by-election to resume his career . |
| 29 | We made the decision to go despite the lack of an organized UK presence — we are on-air with a new series running from January to March 1991 and we wanted to make contacts before then , rather than wait for MIP-TV to come around in April . |
| 30 | Rather than wait for a third guy , Lee sets his ball down quick and hits it . |