Example sentences of "[pron] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Keith would sooner help someone than hurt them . |
| 2 | ‘ It is easier and quicker to do a task for someone than promote independence . |
| 3 | No doubt those whom we so recently persuaded to seek their bread elsewhere are hungry because they are idle , vicious , and ill-conditioned and think it easier to rob such innocent and harmless passers-by as I than to toil in the fields . ’ |
| 4 | Given the very real threat of political vetting , many in the community think it is better to say nothing than risk the wrath of government . |
| 5 | I would rather abandon Eton , Winchester , Harrow and all the rest of them than sacrifice the advantage of the grammar school . ’ |
| 6 | As always with selective , individual cases , there is more to them than meets the eye . |
| 7 | Loaded symbols Giles Sutherland reviews an exhibition of Philip Braham 's landscape paintings and finds more to them than meets the eye |
| 8 | Following the meeting a revised order was issued which , while not complying with all of the islanders ' requests , was considerably more acceptable to them than had been the original directive . |
| 9 | I 'd rather it was with them than buying expensive misfits all the time . |
| 10 | The high strength of thin fibres may be due in part to the fact that such fibres are very easily bent and it is therefore easier to bend them than to scratch them . |
| 11 | It 's easy here , Hilary , Monica and Yvonne are more like your mates than your mum , it 's easier to talk to them than to talk to my mum . |
| 12 | And what more practical way of repaying them than to ensure that their own little seedling of bonheur had time to sprout and shoot , to root and burgeon ? |
| 13 | According to this view , the working classes had more to unite them than divide them , and the separateness of states was a piece of mystification which helped to perpetuate capitalism . |
| 14 | By Nov. 1 1943 the German C-in-C Southeast had concluded ‘ that Tito 's forces had to be treated as a full military threat and not merely as insurgents and that it was more important to defeat them than to prepare against the less likely threat of an Allied landing ’ . |
| 15 | On the practical side , Beccaria makes the quite unwarranted assumption that more serious crimes are more attractive and of necessity require more serious punishments to deter them than do lesser ones . |
| 16 | But we make common cause in attaching more significance to them than do the theories ( except perhaps for Idealism ) discussed so far . |
| 17 | Indeed , it could be argued that the collective influence of the processes discussed in this chapter have made a greater impact on the cities and those living within them than has inner-city policy . |
| 18 | He obviously possessed great talents , though he perhaps thought more highly of them than did others ; and he also had a unique capacity for arousing antagonisms and hatred . |
| 19 | ‘ Although it was an ensemble piece , ’ said Richard Lester , ‘ I felt that Michael and Rita Tushingham were the co-leads because we structured the film more around the two of them than did the play , which was a fairly even four-hander . ’ |
| 20 | It would be it would be better for them than doing all the extensions together cos doing all the extension booklets |
| 21 | It is far better to think through the principles in advance and to act consistently with them than to improvise . |
| 22 | Foreign banks would rather persuade Russian entrepreneurs to deposit their profits with them than consider extending loans . |
| 23 | ‘ Dying on your partner ’ , he said ‘ is much fairer and more financially beneficial to them than divorcing them . ’ |
| 24 | I 'd rather the mountain killed me than die in some hospital . ’ |
| 25 | Hadst thou not rather stay with me than go to my sister ? |
| 26 | They were trying more to come one place ahead of me than to win a medal . |
| 27 | Enjoying my fishing , including the enjoyment I would have derived from seeing a friend catch , is more important to me than compiling a longer list of big fish than anyone else . |
| 28 | ‘ Some say I 'm a dour type of person , and maybe I am at times , but nothing means more to me than winning . |
| 29 | But he warned : ‘ There is no greater challenge in rugby for me than to play against England before my own people . ’ |
| 30 | Surely he deserves better of me than to gaze at him with my policeman 's eyes . |