Example sentences of "the [adj] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the purpose is more to encourage the faithful than to change minds or hearts . |
| 2 | In part , this was because of the spread of liberal ideas and institutions since 1815 ; governments were tending to be less the oppressors of the governed than identified with them , though this process had still far to go in 1880 . |
| 3 | But McGrath , who has had eight operations on his knees , revealed this could be his swansong , saying : ‘ I will decide at the end of the season , but I 'd rather quit at the top than drop down to a lower level , and the knees cause me a lot of pain . |
| 4 | Command of these rules and conventions is more likely to increase the freedom of the individual than diminish it . |
| 5 | The fact was , the Rector had no sense of priorities — he would be happier washing the feet of the poor than ordering a dignified social life such as a woman in Mrs Frere 's position had the right to expect . |
| 6 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 7 | He would rather fight in the open than wait to murder the other when he falls asleep , but is so much the weaker that to fight without an advantage would amount to suicide . |
| 8 | It will be in the female 's best interests to lay just four eggs and rear all the young than to lay seven eggs and produce a brood of weaklings . |
| 9 | When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area . |