Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [verb] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the I L P wanted to lay down more militant lines the Labour Party wanted to throw them out anyway , and so the I L P-ers all decided that er the best thing to do was to leave rather than get thrown out . |
| 2 | Firms within the zones seem to have been doing better than equivalent companies elsewhere . |
| 3 | It must have been a dismal job for those children , who , like children everywhere , would have preferred to have been playing rather than handling ton after ton of cold wet ore and stone . |
| 4 | He had been careful not to tear her dress , but everything else seemed to be ruined irrevocably , not the least the inward psyche of Sally-Anne herself , which seemed to have been raped more than her body , if that were possible . |
| 5 | She is one of Hollywood 's longest-lasting leading ladies , said to have been paid more than three million dollars for Housesitter which is released in Britain next week . |
| 6 | The areas beyond these terminal reaves contain burial and religious monuments which in some cases must be earlier ; so perhaps some respect of older features is implied , an aspect which can be seen elsewhere where barrows and barrow cemeteries seem to have been avoided rather than ignored when the later fields were laid out . |