Example sentences of "[to-vb] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidently , there is more to our belief that the flipping caused the wipers to start to work than has so far been specified . |
| 2 | Overall , the evidence suggests that schools are more likely to increase than reduce the share of the budget devoted to support personnel . |
| 3 | To impose upon a man who , through natural causes , has been made ill to a certain extent , very grave injuries such as were sustained by this plaintiff and which reduces his capacity to bear natural ill health , is in my judgment more likely to increase than reduce damages . |
| 4 | You will also need a plumbline to ensure that a frame or end panel is vertical ; this is more accurate and easier to see than using a spirit level . |
| 5 | He is more likely to borrow than barter , since he does not want to part with his own . |
| 6 | Ironically , a formal process of strategic planning often does more to inhibit than to enhance innovative conceptual thinking … . |
| 7 | He struggled even more when four men pounced upon him and pinned him to the ground , but his frantic movements were more an attempt to breathe than to escape . |
| 8 | There was also general agreement that logistic stocks and infrastructure on the far side of the barrier should be kept to a minimum — a principle that was easier to propound than fulfil . |
| 9 | The function of government intervention is less to tell people what they ought to like than to allow them better to achieve what they already like . |
| 10 | There is more to these pieces than just a virtuosic exterior , though I should add that they are perhaps a great deal more amusing to perform than to listen to ‘ en bloc ’ . |
| 11 | The Government , responsive to its own Liberal supporters , was more concerned to accommodate than to confront conscientious objectors . |
| 12 | The opportunity may , therefore , exist for settlement at this stage and there is no doubt that it is preferable so to proceed than to achieve settlement at the door of the Court . |
| 13 | There is more here to enjoy than to carp about , abut as with the Chopin Waltzes , the rather close digital piano image seems slightly artificial in its bright presence . |
| 14 | MATURITY IS : Being quicker to affirm than to condemn . |
| 15 | Perhaps I needed more courage to retire than to carry on . |
| 16 | His walk , attitude and gestures were those of a self-confident man , a little addicted to be indifferent to others , and far more disposed to lead than to follow . |
| 17 | Certainly , this has not been yielding the same profits as four years ago , but the Japanese are not entirely absent from the sale rooms nonetheless , even though more often in order to sell than to buy . |
| 18 | And Lawrence may be keener to buy than to sell . |
| 19 | People tend to invest more time deciding on a house purchase or what car to buy than deciding what to do with their lives and how to develop themselves . |
| 20 | On the whole the royal courts of Europe were more concerned to administer than to define the law : as in canon law , there was no clear distinction between legislative and judicial functions , and so the former was normally hidden in the latter . |
| 21 | It is better to journey than to arrive : the masterpiece versus fake debate continues over the Getty Kouros |
| 22 | Thirty years later , the rapid reconquest of the duchy by the French owed much to the threat posed by the French king 's artillery against the defences of towns which preferred to surrender than to make a fight of it . |
| 23 | Starting with breakfast at 7am , Kramer 's stays open until two in the morning : there are few better ways to unwind than browsing to Vivaldi or jazz late at night . |
| 24 | Both are more likely to escape than do anything . |
| 25 | Participation is an easier word to use than to implement , as was discovered by the would-be implementers of the 1969 Skeffington Report , and by many idealistic councillors in the 1980s . |
| 26 | From here it 's a doddle to sort out train times and connections — it 's probably cheaper than trying to ring up and get through to BR 's phone lines and definitely easier to use than wading through the paper version . |
| 27 | Everything cooks very slowly in a slo-cooker because the heating element is extremely gentle and costs no more to use than leaving a light bulb switched on for a day ( a few pence ) . |
| 28 | These and other ideas do more to confuse than to clarify . |
| 29 | ‘ You think people have nothing better to do than listen to you . ’ |
| 30 | We have better things to do than kill each other . ’ |