Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | But sell rather than build . |
| 2 | IBM is a general partner but has less than 50% . |
| 3 | Eighteen percent of their mines have this so called deep cut system , but has more than fifty percent of all the fatal accidents in those eighteen percent of the mines . |
| 4 | ? Dogs can become pregnant at 12 months , but mature later than bitches . |
| 5 | The Bookshop also suffered from the recession in 1992 , but fared better than the book trade generally . |
| 6 | They are highspeed ones but run slower than in Europe . |
| 7 | They will not win the World Cup , but going further than England would be the next best thing . |
| 8 | Jay was intrigued , but knew better than to ask the question direct . |
| 9 | She was feeling a great deal better about everything , but knew better than to say so . |
| 10 | I tried to work out an obvious connection between scholarship and cocaine and could not , but knew better than to ask . |
| 11 | He looked from one to the other of their faces but knew better than to open his mouth . |
| 12 | Landgrebe , only the second graduate employed by the company , had taken over Peter Revers ' job when the latter went to New York and had responsibilities for scheduling and managing shops , but knew better than to express an opinion on artistic matters . |
| 13 | Paige was startled by his assumption , but knew better than to deny it . |
| 14 | It was largely based on the design for S. Sernin in Toulouse and was started after but completed earlier than the French church ( 423 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Funnily enough I was only third choice , but did better than the other two British swimmers , ’ he says . |
| 16 | The face was probably polished at some time , the reverse is rougher but beaten rather than cast . |
| 17 | It is the detailed , etched pictures that really tell the tale ; the text serves to reinforce the story but suggests rather than dictates the plot , with different monkeys taking over as narrator . |
| 18 | Enhanced staffing under PNP gave schools two broad possibilities : to continue the traditional arrangement of one teacher per class , but with smaller classes ; or to maintain class sizes but have more than one teacher working in some of them . |