Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] than [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is more difficult for man to look up than to look down . |
| 2 | It was better not to go out than to go and fall down . |
| 3 | After the pilot 's personal safety , the safety of the aircraft must be the next most important consideration ; it is always safer to land out than to risk trying to get back with marginal height . |
| 4 | Grendon is unlike all other prisons in Britain , not least because it 's easier to get out than to get in . |
| 5 | It is not hard to see how attempts to value popular culture or television , or to legitimize their academic study , come up against Adorno and Horkheimer as a check which it may be easier to think around than to think through . |