Example sentences of "than to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is , after all , an actor 's part and perfectly accessible — he prefers , too , to be acted rather than to be read . |
| 2 | He has miraculously survived all this , and even being education secretary , but how would he measure up to being chairman , in a party where , in times of stress , to be party chairman is a greater thing than to be a secretary of state ? |
| 3 | It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated . |
| 4 | Kylie has managed to maintain her sense of humour because she more than anyone understands that in her business it is better to be written about than to be ignored . |
| 5 | Did you know that there is nothing they like better than to be starved ? |
| 6 | One principal advantage of an integrated approach is that it helps to spread employment throughout the year rather than to be concentrated in peak periods . |
| 7 | Let us remember that it 's not the popular , attractive people who need our help most , but the lonely and the unpopular … those it might be easier to laugh at than to be seen helping . |
| 8 | Is it really any better to be saying to another religious tradition what John Hick presumably says , namely : ‘ Your God is really my God ’ , than to be saying with Polycarp and the Proconsul : ‘ Your God does n't exist ’ ? |
| 9 | ‘ In India ’ , Rosa Luxemburg wrote , ‘ nationalism is an expression of the rising indigenous bourgeoisie which seeks to exploit the country for its own ends rather than to be drained by English capital ’ . |
| 10 | The sense of rescue undoubtedly gives a special strain of idealization to these comments , but this seems to go back to the childhood experience rather than to be a retrospective gloss . |
| 11 | I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live . ’ |
| 12 | To see a disturbed animal rehomed several times and to witness the disastrous consequences and schizophrenic mess of a dog which results , one soon realises there are worse things which can happen to a dog than to be humanely destroyed . |
| 13 | It iss better to find out for yourself , our Guider says , than to be told . ’ |
| 14 | Believe me , it is far harder at such times to sit and look on than to be in the middle , ’ he told Sunday Express readers . |
| 15 | ‘ Could anything be worse than to be beaten in two Cup finals ? ’ |
| 16 | What greater occupation then can a man have than to be tending this jewel box and factory and searching for ideas ? |
| 17 | In keeping with Ackoff 's principle ( 1988 ) that ‘ It is better to plan for oneself , no matter how badly , than to be planned for by others , no matter how well' ’ , individuals who have contributed to the policy-making process are likely to be in a position to serve the organisation more effectively . |
| 18 | If you are told that someone ‘ had seen what has happened ’ , that person is more likely to be having questions addressed to them than to be posing questions themselves . |
| 19 | The inexorable way in which it became directed towards , or associated with a ‘ god ’ of some sort , can be regarded as having no other significance than to be a source of evidence that without a god and religion in some form , there would be for man an intolerable vacuum in his existence . |
| 20 | Rifts persistently occur within the human race , and one important cause could well be found in the tendency of human beings to group themselves together and rally around a particular banner for no other reason than to be able to identify another group as an ‘ enemy ’ upon whom can be laid the blame for hardship and misery suffered ; suffering which it has not been possible to attribute to any obvious cause . |
| 21 | The role of the community group is more than to be a channel through which individual needs and requests ( however exclusive or partisan ) are articulated to local government . |
| 22 | Nothing could be more deadly than to be able to anticipate every move our partner will make . |
| 23 | What better proof of heterosexuality than to be married ? |
| 24 | In 1940 , any refugee of military age was less likely to be called up than to be sent down , to an internment camp . |
| 25 | Far better to be tested today and have the chance to put right what is shown to be wrong than to be tested tomorrow and be found wanting . |
| 26 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 27 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 28 | Their subconscious mind , however , has not progressed beyond the guilt stage and they continue to see themselves in their inner mind as bad people who deserve nothing better than to be victims . |
| 29 | It 's certainly true that drugs are assumed to have a special , morbid logic of their own , rather than to be aspecific case of general patterns of human behaviour . |
| 30 | One royal source says : ‘ There is nothing she would like more than to be given away by Peter with Zara acting as a bridesmaid . ’ |