Example sentences of "than [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For rather than research coming up with unequivocal findings which can then influence and be integrated in a professional and neutral way into policy and practice I will try to demonstrate how political interests and values , in all their guises , influence and pervade the relationship in a variety of ways . |
| 2 | Another criticism is that public expenditure cuts , rather than helping to control unemployment ( by cutting inflation in a monetarist model ) , have either caused or exaggerated current unemployment ( see Ch. 20 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Sometimes he 'll help Paul with funeral arrangements — usually nothing more taxing than helping to transport and carry the coffins . ’ |
| 4 | After all , what better way is there to get to know the countryside and to become aware of the natural world than to go walking in the countryside ? |
| 5 | A back strap that is too tight will encourage bulges above and below , and a bra that relies on straps rather than shaping to hold breasts in place can cut grooves in your shoulders . |
| 6 | With such a disturbing audience of one , Leonora took far longer than intended to serve the meal . |
| 7 | That 's more than flock to watch Madonna OR Jackson at Wembley — and it 's all thanks to you . |
| 8 | However to take no action would be worse than to risk insulting the dead . |
| 9 | After the pilot 's personal safety , the safety of the aircraft must be the next most important consideration ; it is always safer to land out than to risk trying to get back with marginal height . |
| 10 | It is always easier to stick to the tried and true than to risk doing something different . |
| 11 | Would n't it be better than bring cooped up like an animal in that place ? ’ |
| 12 | If the catapult is moved other than to pivot to face the target , then it may not shoot that turn . |
| 13 | Apart from indicating the couch and offering him the wine she had done no more than sit watching him , occasionally rubbing a deep scratch on her arm . |
| 14 | It may , therefore , be more productive to work within the limitations imposed by the data than to continue to explore art-styles as a root to chronological precision when this does not seem possible because of the unknown number of unknown variables . |
| 15 | He made no further sign of life as they drew near than to continue to watch them . |
| 16 | OMG figures it was easier for Next to join the organisation than to continue to explain why it was n't a member . |
| 17 | Ever since they had made love the night before she had wanted nothing more than to continue touching him . |
| 18 | Dr Michael Russell of the Addiction Research Unit , commented : ‘ Nicotine replacement has less than 5 per cent of the risk of smoking ’ , while Dr Chris Steele , who runs a smoking cessation clinic in Manchester and is the author of books on giving up smoking , added : ‘ A smoker with any smoking-related disease would be far , far safer to change over to nicotine gum than to continue smoking . |
| 19 | She used treats and kindness rather than nagging to persuade her mum to kick the habit for at least two weeks . |
| 20 | JOHN SMITHS HAS dominated the Glasgow bookselling scene for even longer than Thins has been preeminent in Edinburgh , but there are differences . |
| 21 | This ‘ Doyler ’ fellow talks about the break-up of his marriage as though we 're expected to feel sorry for him , rather than cracking open a jerobaum of Bollinger , and saying ‘ you did the right thing there , my man . |
| 22 | On the other hand , the Diary was less than impressed to get such a list from one of Scotland 's newer agencies detailing containing one horrendous spelling error . |
| 23 | 2 Exploring proposals rather than counter proposing |
| 24 | Rather than strive to apply the most advanced technology available , the Soviet designer is conditioned to ask , ‘ what is the simplest solution which will do the job ’ ? |
| 25 | No one can doubt that it is far better to aim to prevent job problems arising than to try to cure them by means of a law suit . |
| 26 | than to try to take a mean and petty advantage of anybody or anything . |
| 27 | Even tariffs may have helped by making it better business to own factories inside a market than to try to break into it from outside : the Germans and Swiss supplied the French textile industry in 1900 from eight factories inside France , Germans made chemicals in Russia , and other Germans invested heavily in the coal mines of French Lorraine . |
| 28 | It 'll be easier to clean the whole lot off than to try to repair the mess . |
| 29 | She liked nothing better than to try to match a stranger 's characteristics and behaviour with a particular sign , then try to find out if she was right . ’ |
| 30 | The little waves ‘ strike ’ the shore , the high part of an advancing wave is a ‘ hump ’ ; looking to another portion of creation , it would surely be better , but impossible , just to ‘ observe ’ the behaviour of migrating starlings than to try to understand it through the conflicting ‘ explanations ’ that have been proposed for it . |