Example sentences of "than to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is more important to have a good character than to be clever or intelligent . |
| 2 | If a client proposes an asking price which appears unrealistic or unreasonable , it may be preferable to withdraw from the engagement rather than to be involved in protracted negotiations which are likely to have little prospect of success . |
| 3 | ‘ It is better to be beautiful than to be good . ’ |
| 4 | It may be easier to be fearful of all sorts of things than to be honest and say to yourself : ‘ The way I feel is entirely my own problem . |
| 5 | In this conventional hierarchy , it is morally worse to intend harm than to be indifferent whether harm results from one 's behaviour . |
| 6 | In this sense , the intent to harm someone may be less immoral ( or at least no more immoral ) than to be indifferent as to whom is harmed . |
| 7 | What better proof of heterosexuality than to be married ? |
| 8 | It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated . |
| 9 | In fact many women said it was kinder to cry than to be angry because , they claimed , if they said what they were really thinking their husbands would be so incredulous and so humiliated that the marriage would not survive . |
| 10 | It 's certainly true that drugs are assumed to have a special , morbid logic of their own , rather than to be aspecific case of general patterns of human behaviour . |
| 11 | I will quote you from long ago if you doubt it : ‘ Life holds no greater sadness than to be blind in Granada . ’ |
| 12 | I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live . ’ |
| 13 | Consequently rational members of organizations are more likely to stay loyal and inactive than to be vocal participants . |
| 14 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 15 | It is far more important to be moving forward in broadly the right directions than to be stuck still without the businesses going anywhere . |
| 16 | It seemed to me obvious at the time that to be a child was safer and easier than to be adult and that , specifically , to be a girl was safer and easier than to be a woman . |
| 17 | Rifts persistently occur within the human race , and one important cause could well be found in the tendency of human beings to group themselves together and rally around a particular banner for no other reason than to be able to identify another group as an ‘ enemy ’ upon whom can be laid the blame for hardship and misery suffered ; suffering which it has not been possible to attribute to any obvious cause . |
| 18 | Nothing could be more deadly than to be able to anticipate every move our partner will make . |
| 19 | John o' Groats is commonly but wrongly regarded as the most northerly tip of the country and because of this popular misconception attracts many visitors , most of whom come for no better reason than to be able to say they have been there and , having satisfied this ambition , turn round and return south . |
| 20 | It is therefore more important to understand the principles on which such lists are based than to be able to negotiate all the niceties of any particular list . |