Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NUWM was at the centre of most of the violent clashes with the police in the early 1930s , though this tactic was later changed to the more peaceful and probably more effective " hunger march " which took the unemployed through the countryside and down to London rather than leaving them isolated in the Distressed Areas . |
| 2 | When are the teachers going to stop being political animals and get down to teaching rather than try to score points off the Government ? |
| 3 | It 's all down to confusion rather than deliberate ignorance , so it 's worth covering the whole idea of shareware , how it differs from other types of software such as public domain , and what the user 's obligations are both legally and morally . |
| 4 | Data on a wide range of trace elements , especially thorium , uranium and the rare-earth elements , down to concentrations less than one part per billion ( 1:10&sup9 ) , have been obtained from natural waters and experimental solutions from several projects , including those concerned with the mobility of nuclides in the geosphere . |
| 5 | Small wonder , then , that A. J. P. Taylor 's advice was to ‘ run away to sea rather than go to a secondary modern ’ . |
| 6 | First , that the loyalty of most rural and many urban people is still to tribe rather than nation ; second , in the continuous drift towards authoritarian systems of government ; and , third , in the failure to resolve peacefully a system of succession of heads of state . |
| 7 | The agreement follows Chivers decision last year to sell its publications directly to libraries rather than through the wholesale market , and the consequent closure of its own wholesale library supply business . |
| 8 | ‘ Kenny had been given permission to fly up to Stockport later than the rest of the lads because one of his children was ill . |
| 9 | Both the French government and French farming unions traditionally favoured linking farm incomes mainly to prices rather than to " social handouts " ( although , according to the Financial Times of May 22 , there was in late 1991 " a growing realization by farming leaders that some kind of social help was needed to enable an ageing farming population with few successors to retire peacefully " ) . |
| 10 | Many other prey species flee upwards to safety rather than downwards . |
| 11 | This can have a rather unsettling effect over a long period — the family man can not promise to take his children to the seaside or his wife out to dinner more than a week ahead without the chance that he might be in India , California or Scotland at the time he promised . |
| 12 | I had caused her further troubles by having boils and having to be brought back to England earlier than planned . |
| 13 | This again throws the emphasis on to skills rather than coverage of facts , although a comprehension of the structures of subject disciplines ( even the idea that subjects have structures ) is an important element . |
| 14 | He talked about those who had been fired by the spirit but had lost touch with the soul ; about unassimilated shadows which foisted evil on to enemies rather than bringing responsibility back home ; he talked of tight-ropes and sword-bridges and the narrow course between the clashing rocks . |
| 15 | Aye cos if it was like family you could lay it on to family easier than you could lay it on to somebody |
| 16 | Whilst other people recognise that the alcohol-induced sense of unconditioned acceptance is a false sensation , the sufferers from addictive disease may cling to it even to death rather than face up to the reality of the need to accept any conditions in life . |
| 17 | Gazzer felt closer to Marie now than he had ever done before , and it mattered to him very much that she should take him seriously . |
| 18 | The situation in Europe and especially the history of Serbia must have influenced her in her choice of subject and in this sense her book looks forward to Buchan rather than back to Anthony Hope . |