Example sentences of "than [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shouting at the two children talking when they should n't during assembly rather than praising the other two hundred for sitting quietly is typical of a pre-occupation with failure . |
| 2 | Wisely , three representative images are chosen for detailed state by state analysis , rather than encumbering the whole catalogue with such voluminous information . |
| 3 | But if Dr Mumby 's right , Turtle fans may find that rather than helping the good guys , they could instead get a cow bunger clobbering from the Turtle team by turning into the baddies . |
| 4 | Had he and the Bishop already decided even before Spruce came that they would set Theodora on ( one , after all , of their own kind and bound by clerical obedience ) rather than helping the normal , if crude , processes of the law ? |
| 5 | I feel there can be few more worthy objects for the book-collector who is suitably placed geographically than gathering the printed products of his town or city through the centuries . |
| 6 | It would have been simpler and more effective , he wrote , to lock the doors and seal up the entrances , simpler and more effective and cheaper than manning the whole building . |
| 7 | Peter began by saying he had decided to use his spare time for research rather than editing a new series . |
| 8 | I am not about to dismiss the poor as part of a force for change , but there is a great deal more to it than organizing the poor to help themselves . |
| 9 | Rather than proving an insoluble methodological problem , these contradictions are , in fact , a key finding in the research . |
| 10 | This is usually more valuable than generating an allowable loss for capital gains tax purposes . |
| 11 | As table 3 shows , the key legal services used by businesses tend to be the sort that are need-driven — litigation , commercial property and employee legislation — rather than reflecting a broader and continuous relationship . |
| 12 | It is clear that the lessons of ‘ 92 have not been learned and again Managers would appear to be telling Senior Management what they want to hear , rather than reflecting the real situation . |
| 13 | Rather than suggesting a different incentive system , which would enable the agency to maintain at least some timber harvesting in many of the forests on the list , the agency is deliberately limiting its options . |
| 14 | I found myself working twelve to fourteen hours a day , barely coming up for air , and looking forward to finishing the book so that life could begin again — rather than enjoying the day-by-day process of writing , and living life to the full . |
| 15 | There is nothing more dispiriting , he says , than seeing a young doctor who has spent years on a project and has no thesis to show at the end of it because the project was ill-considered and ill-supervised . |
| 16 | It is a wonderful thing to see , and somehow gives you a greater thrill than seeing a conventional float slide under the surface . |
| 17 | Rather than inventing a unique fictional world , it creates a recognisable reality that calls for accuracy . |
| 18 | In some schools , at any rate , this seems to have performed a rhetorical function in conforming to the guidelines , rather than producing a realistic statement of an established and developing provision . |
| 19 | Rather than producing a brave new economic world , the ECSC and its High Authority had constantly to wrestle with national objections and intransigence . |
| 20 | just as when reading a favourite novel , we create the people and places described as we see them , so we draw on our own images and imagination to enrich our inner world , rather than accepting an unknown intruder — the voice on the tape . |
| 21 | In 1987 the Community agreed to a package of measures which will create greater fare competition , will allow the airlines to increase market shares at each other 's expense ( rather than maintaining a rigid fifty/fifty split ) and will allow other airlines ( both from the bilateral partners and from other states ) to ply for trade on particular routes . |
| 22 | The idea of tailoring spreadsheet functions exactly to your specific requirements is much more attractive than building a cumbersome series of macros . |
| 23 | Back in November , Mr Bush got a rude shock when his ‘ Energy Strategy ’ ( which amounted to little more than building a few more nuclear reactors and opening up every remaining square inch of Alaska to further oil exploration ) got kicked out by the Senate . |
| 24 | Will he use this opportunity to ask British Steel to consider modernising the Dalzell plate mill in Motherwell rather than building an expensive new plate mill , which would be less profitable for British Steel ? |
| 25 | But , because the hammer points towards the player , the rotation of the key moves the check away from the hammer when the key is played , rather than bringing the two closer together . |
| 26 | This is much slower than using a desk-top publishing system , but enforces consistent formatting and , some day , should assist in putting the journals into a database so that the information can be accessed easily . |
| 27 | Rather than using a traditional ‘ foreign language lesson ’ participants are often asked to learn a craft skill in another language . |
| 28 | Such ‘ elastic ’ connection lines make drawing box charts such as flow diagrams , hierarchy charts , PERT diagrams etc. much easier than using a normal drawing package . |
| 29 | You 'll save a lot of wear and tear on your hands if you buy a stainless steel trowel , because nothing causes more blisters than using a rusty trowel . |
| 30 | The notion of centrifugal launchers was based on the idea that rather than using a long , straight runway , the aircraft could take-off following a circular path around a tower , or possibly a more mobile type of launcher , rather in the manner of ‘ round-the-pole ’ model aircraft . |