Example sentences of "than [vb infin] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quick end , rather than torture and rape at the hands of those barbarians in the hall . |
| 2 | Government comes to be seen as a matter of administration rather than rule and the ideologies of Machiavelli , Locke , Bentham , and Marx provide us with the modern cribs to politics ; a political training in default of a political education . |
| 3 | She said that her interview had laid stress on personal circumstances rather than experience and qualifications . |
| 4 | Patrilocal residence , where women join the households of their husbands rather than vice versa , and the continued strength of the system of domestic production , where families consume most of what they produce rather than buy and sell in the market , have always been seen as obstacles to capitalist development in the Third World and as strong reinforcements for the maintenance of feudal-patriarchal relations . |
| 5 | He hoped the Frenchmen would be content to drive him away from the high road rather than pursue and capture him , but as he quickened the mare 's pace , so the Frenchman spurred their own horses . |
| 6 | Rather than market and hierarchy being opposed to types , as in the Williamsonian formulation , it may be more appropriate to see them as alternative solutions to the problem of how to arrange functional alignment within the enterprise . |
| 7 | Traditional administration has been supplanted by active management with its focus on results rather than process and year-on-year improvements in performance . |
| 8 | In other cases , people had no inner-city ties , and ties with neighbours tended to be uniplex and open-ended , rather than multiplex and dense . |
| 9 | Writing as late as 1971 , John Erickson could still pinpoint a widespread frustration with the absence of a clear C.-in-C. of the Armed Forces and with military policy imposed by ad hoc command changes rather than clear and systematic institutional mechanisms and procedures . |
| 10 | We shall examine each of these four claims separately though recognising that they are inter-related and that there are also other claims for the undermining effects of social policy on economic growth — the poverty trap and its damage to incentives , the encouragement of a general attitude favouring leisure and pleasure rather than work and saving , the lack of enthusiasm generated for profit in a welfare state , and so on . |
| 11 | When not pressed too hard , the former prefer to disbelieve rather than believe and the latter to believe rather than disbelieve ; but both feel extremely uncomfortable if their tested . |
| 12 | ‘ Some of their success in attracting savings may have been due to people 's desire to save rather than spend and they are well placed to fund mortgages for those now planning to buy homes . ’ |
| 13 | But if it 's the same or related condition , we 're saying , it 's a continuation of the claim , rather than stop and start again . |
| 14 | Living should always be like this rather than drudge and more drudge . |
| 15 | Users planning to use the Pentium OverDrive upgrade socket on 80486-based machines should beware , says US PC Week ( but apart from individual users with only one machine , who actually wants to upgrade rather than bequeath and buy new ? ) : some machines with the P24T socket do not meet Intel Corp 's requirements for cooling , and if upgraded could overheat and fail , says Intel . |
| 16 | Users planning to use the Pentium OverDrive upgrade socket on 80486-based machines should beware , says US PC Week ( but apart from individual users with only one machine , who actually wants to upgrade rather than bequeath and buy new ? ) : some machines with the P24T socket do not meet Intel Corp 's requirements for cooling , and if upgraded could overheat and fail , says Intel . |
| 17 | His wars with France between 1511 and 1514 and between 1522 and 1525 brought no economic returns , the occupation of Tournai from 1513 to 1519 involved loss rather than gain and subsidy payments to continental allies involved the export of national resources ( 82 , p.209 ) . |
| 18 | The A flat was the only Polonaise Cortot recorded ( though Music and Arts have a Polonaise-Fantasie previously unissued and dating from 1947 and there is a 1923 recording of Op. 22 , mutilated rather than cut and minus its preceding Andante spianato — CD MACD615 ) which is regrettable considering the fire he brings to Poland 's most ebullient and regal dance . |
| 19 | Remember , if the height is marginal it may be safer to land across the field a little out of wind , rather than try and complete the turn with insufficient height . |
| 20 | this is your way of working back rather than try and remember every little detail because a lot of them are similar , easy to get confused between them but you think well hey what would happen , what happens with an acid and a base , what happens with an acid and an alkali , now those two are virtually identical they they are more or less identical . |
| 21 | I 'm very surprised your attitude is that we should cover it up and hide it away rather than try and elucidate its value for science . |
| 22 | Is the policy still to sit it out and wait rather than try and force your way into the prison ? |
| 23 | Rather than scowl and growl at his durn bad luck , Pierce hooks up with another bunch of musical buckaroos and ambles out on to his porch to sing the blues … the real blues , that is . |
| 24 | At the same time , some smart security companies have wised up and realized that such people are bad for business and they have duly set out to recruit the New Bouncer , who is trained to smile and defuse , rather than scowl and disembowel . |
| 25 | Good colour snaps are fine as long as you get the building in focus , take it in sunlight rather than shadow and stand back far enough to ensure the whole building is in the picture . |
| 26 | The ferreting season has just ended and those people with no more than a passing interest , perhaps a failed interest , will then be keen to dispose of their stock rather than feed and maintain them to the start of another season . |
| 27 | We are peers ( rather than boss and subordinate ) . |
| 28 | Rather than come and conquer physically — which they ca n't do anyway , since part of their consciousness is trapped — they nudge people 's minds in the direction they . |
| 29 | It could underline their responsibility for health rather than supply and encourage them to view managed units as a rather than the supplier of services . |
| 30 | And rather than sit and eat chocolate I can eat apples and fruit . |