Example sentences of "[adv] than going " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he says well , I can wait till tomorrow , better than going back and coming again . |
| 2 | All that was easy to believe now , it was easy to imagine the drunkenness , and Timothy Gedge letting the facts slip out because he did n't care , because he 'd find it enjoyable , even better than going to a funeral . |
| 3 | I was 33 by then and played till the end of the season , which was at least better than going out on an injury . ’ |
| 4 | I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are . |
| 5 | Wherever possible , though , he recommends turning to family and friends for emotional help with the problem , rather than going it alone . |
| 6 | They have been issuing equity instruments ( eg , convertible bonds and warrant bonds ) on the capital markets rather than going to their bank managers for costly old-fashioned loans . |
| 7 | As your fitness increases you should find that you are naturally walking places rather than going by bus or car . |
| 8 | Richard Agutter , head of Peat 's merger and acquisition network , said the relatively low average values indicated that British companies were making cross-border deals for strategic reasons ‘ rather than going for the mega-deals ’ . |
| 9 | Far better , it seemed to me , was the simple strategy of waiting for nature to come to you , rather than going clumsily to look for it . |
| 10 | It will be able to negotiate directly with the Council on proposed amendments rather than going through the Commission and , in the last resort , it will be able to reject the agreed position of the Council on legislation , although it is unlikely to do so often . |
| 11 | When released from prison he shows how he relied on others , by needing to be with the church after release from prison rather than going off and licking his wounds by himself . |
| 12 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 13 | Trailing 6-3 , Cardiff won a last-chance scrum on the Swansea line and the players pressured Hall into running the ball rather than going for a drop goal which would have given them a draw . |
| 14 | ‘ In the end , we played positionally rather than going for an all-out assault , otherwise we might have had an even bigger score . ’ |
| 15 | As Mr Lawrence explains , ‘ it 's tilted the balance in favour of borrowing rather than going to shareholders … |
| 16 | Why ca n't people accept things for what they are rather than going all out to destroy the things they do n't agree with ? |
| 17 | With Plehve far from the field , Auffenberg , rather than going in pursuit , should change direction and strike the advancing armies of Ruzski and Brusilov from the north , while the Second Army , from Serbia , at last in position , struck from the south . |
| 18 | Almost always , where there is a strong market position in a mature consulting environment , the needs are consolidation , client management and strong attention to quality rather than going out and finding new clients . |
| 19 | Rather than going it alone , 3Com Corp , San Jose has picked Cascade Communications Corp to help it enter the Frame Relay market . |
| 20 | There was some fretting over the question of whether trading one parent for another rather than going public would put Unix right back where it was when the Open Software Foundation was formed . |
| 21 | I think you actually reflect what is truly political much more accurately that way , rather than going anywhere near political propaganda which , to me is the opposite of art . |
| 22 | People tend to admire common sense and strong business instincts rather than going for those who can out- think the competition . ’ |
| 23 | Here is an extract from a letter written by an indignant rentier to his bailiff ( Driver , no. x ) : When in the next century Alexander the Great , after winning the battle of Issos in Cilicia , turned south against Egypt rather than going immediately east towards the Iranian centre of the Persian Empire , his decision , as we shall see , was strategically sensible ; what is surprising is that the Persians surrendered so quickly , not trying to defend Egypt at all , although economically Egypt probably mattered more to the Persian upper class than any other satrapy . |
| 24 | We found that a lot of young couples that because you do n't go to church on a regular basis but erm , to go along with their parents ' wishes too , rather than going through a big church wedding in a church , they go to a hotel and they have the erm , wedding ceremony and the reception all in the hotel , and are married by a minister . |
| 25 | I wanted to put that in , rather than going on about the deprivation and the tragedy of divorce and broken families . ’ |
| 26 | And also for the enjoyment and personally , the the satisfaction you get , rather than going home at five o'clock and forgetting all about . |
| 27 | Because we use the output from our page printer as camera ready copy rather than going to the expense of typesetting we are unable to use scanners to integrate pictures into the text as we make the pages up . |
| 28 | Clifford was , in the imagery of the authors of The Unseen Universe , one of those on the voyage who remains in the engine-room seeing how it works , rather than going on deck to see where the ship is going . |
| 29 | ‘ The British diet has started to change , but a far greater rate of progress can be achieved if we now shift to a positive message about what to eat , rather than going down the old road of saying do n't eat certain foods . |
| 30 | ‘ Do you ever wish you 'd farmed rather than going in for horses ? ’ |