Example sentences of "to [pron] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you find it hard to accept authority from younger nurses who may have less overall experience than you , try to explain your difficulties to them rather than allowing resentment to build up between you . |
| 2 | As a legal precedent section 2(5) of the 1981 Education Act was significant because it was addressed directly to governing bodies and assigned a primary role to them rather than the local authorities . |
| 3 | Transition through training is shown to be a process in which vulnerable young people are stratified into the slots allotted to them rather than being engaged in real decision-making about future choices . |
| 4 | But I might do it by talking to them rather than by writing to them . |
| 5 | The advantage of the hybrid model is that the courts retain some control over the regulatory rules in the sense that they are not bound to give effect to them rather than the general law if they are considered unreasonable . |
| 6 | The gangboys were in the entertainment mood tonight , and nothing appealed to them more than watching some asshole respray the ceiling with greymass . |
| 7 | Having said that , the £1.6 billion reduces to £0.7 billion once the time-value of money is taken into consideration , and this will be reduced yet again once the Government accepts proposals for Deferred Safestore which we submitted to them more than a year ago . |
| 8 | The Hilton should be able to fax this back to me rather than you trying to get it up to York . |
| 9 | Many of the Dublin deaf have a smattering of BSL and can talk to me better than I can talk to them . |
| 10 | I myself feel that the cat and the dog who live in the same house with me are fellow members of my family circle , closer related to me socially than the human neighbour next door whom I know only by sight and name , and infinitely closer than some odd Brazilian or Melanesian , with whom my only connection is that we are fellow men . |
| 11 | My main reservation about the book , which is more evident to me now than when it first appeared , is that Lodge has too direct and univocal an understanding of the elusive concept of ‘ literature ’ . |
| 12 | And he asked me a lot of very pertinent questions which seemed to me more than idle curiosity . |
| 13 | Jean-Claude insisted to me more than once that to trans-pose Le Grand Meaulnes it was essential to have had a childhood like his own . |
| 14 | He therefore considered them of a tradition quite different from that form of conservatism — so admirably defined by Russell Kirk in his study Eliot and his Age ( 1971 , 1984 ) — which , as Eliot said to me more than once , was the best and perhaps the only defence against the extremes of Communism and Fascism . |
| 15 | Basically you 'd er just stand back and ha Actually in my platoon of fifty men it happened to me more than it happened to anybody else because I came from Glasgow . |
| 16 | It was most peculiar sitting there among all the cameras wearing an earphone and talking to someone more than two hundred miles away . |
| 17 | In so far as Hartman 's book wants to be read as a form of fiction , one can make the adverse literary-critical point that the prose is dense and cloyingly arch , with a crooning , caressing quality about it , suggesting the tone of a man talking quietly and earnestly to himself rather than trying to communicate anything to others . |
| 18 | Golding 's voice sank to a murmur , as if he were talking to himself rather than Derek . |
| 19 | He smiled to himself rather than to her , the mark of a shy man who was intermittently confident with women , she hoped , rather than the smile also of someone who enjoyed cheating on his expenses . |
| 20 | ‘ Something about you suggests you 've never been deeply involved in a relationship , ’ he mused , seeming almost to be speaking to himself rather than to her . |
| 21 | ‘ He was speaking to himself rather than to me at the time , but I recall Jeff muttering under his breath something about having to go to the mainland soon … ’ |
| 22 | There go the family jewels , thought Agger to himself more than once . |
| 23 | That was great and started a whole year of being in America for me , which was seeing David as a major star and also for myself , experiencing life as it should be as a major star , with your cars and people looking after you and the record company being polite to you rather than treating you like shit and not working . |
| 24 | It is one of those informal and cheerful places to change from one country to another , unlike the lower , busier frontier posts , with bureaucrats who will more likely wave to you rather than ask to see your passport . |
| 25 | It is n't easy to talk naturally to a piece of machinery and your performers may find it easier to talk to you rather than directly to the camera . |
| 26 | Well probably in your early days you 'll probably do a mix , but if y the quicker you can get to only work , and even to the extent I mean I went out and bought my own book that had personal recommendations on the front and I would actually show that and say look John the only way I actually work , while I get everything ready you might like to look through because it 's the only way I work , I purely work on a personal recommendation basis and that enables me to get quality clients like yourself erm and I can devote time to you rather than have to go out looking for people to tell my story |
| 27 | ‘ Why did he come to you rather than me ? ’ she asked , through lips grown strangely dry . |
| 28 | That shall be to you better than light |
| 29 | That will be to you better than a light and safer than a known way ’ . |
| 30 | If the repayment is made to you more than a year after the end of the year for which the repayment is due — and is more than £25 — the Inland Revenue will automatically pay you ( tax free ! ) interest . |