Example sentences of "than [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 2 | Any good effect of these moves , however , was more than cancelled by publication , without any accompanying statement of Government policy , of the report of the ill-conceived May Committee on that same penultimate day of July . |
| 3 | And off-screen , too , he 's had reasons to be less than charmed by life . |
| 4 | Britain 's trade gap narrowed in February to seven hundred and fifty million pounds from eight hundred and fifty-eight million , but the figures are worse than expected by City analysts . |
| 5 | Even if you go overdrawn you will find charges for Switch are cheaper than paying by cheque . |
| 6 | Rail travel to Prague costs only slightly less than going by air . |
| 7 | As your fitness increases you should find that you are naturally walking places rather than going by bus or car . |
| 8 | It was even better than going by barge . |
| 9 | ‘ But this is more than offset by growth in sales of products like fish oil and evening primrose oil , where sales increases are of the order of 20% . ’ |
| 10 | It speeds up , yes , but level by level , rather than row by row . |
| 11 | It is peculiarly frightening to have an accident in a tunnel , but that should not obscure the fact the Severn tunnel in particular , and the railways in general , have a very good accident record and that travelling by rail is safer than travelling by road . |
| 12 | He said the bus services in the town often did not have ramps needed to get a wheelchair on board , and long journeys by bus were often more uncomfortable than travelling by train . |
| 13 | RUGBY UNION : England World Cup star Paul Ackford will come out of retirement on Saturday to help Harlequins in the Pilkington Cup final against Bath after their pack was more than halved by injury , sending-offs and withdrawals . |
| 14 | We can go to London tomorrow — I 'd much prefer to drive there with you than go by train . ’ |
| 15 | The absence of a price mechanism in state-provided health care distorts the relationship between demand and supply and forces a form of political or professional rationing which is more arbitrary and unfair than rationing by price . |
| 16 | Time and labour can be saved by simultaneous posting in one operation ( about five times faster than posting by hand ) . |
| 17 | Unlike Morrissey , however , Gedge 's thirst for knowledge was mainly academic , rather than fuelled by literature or art . |
| 18 | To some extent , then , kin can take on the status of friends , perhaps involving special kinds of obligations and pressures , but also subject to the influence of factors such as distance and the preference of the couples themselves , rather than determined by blood relationship . |
| 19 | Capital expenditure of £54.9m was more than covered by cash flow generated from operati |
| 20 | The issue of banknotes is the sole function of the issue department , the notes being fiduciary backed by government securities rather than backed by gold . |
| 21 | Careful planning is essential , and remember that production from a small plot can be more than doubled by intercropping and catch cropping . |
| 22 | A much lower rate than predicted by chancellor Norman Lamont on last week 's budget . |
| 23 | In the United States most of the great curriculum projects in the ‘ sixties had been subvented rather than controlled by government and in both countries university personnel had been heavily involved , bringing with them , in almost equal measure , a power of creative innovation and an unacceptable academic arrogance which ignores realities in schools and distrusts anything ‘ political ’ as a threat to ‘ academic freedom ’ . |