Example sentences of "than [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , most of the research on families is based on clinical samples of families with problems rather than research on ‘ normal ’ families . |
| 2 | It is claimed to draw 920,000 two- or three-dimensional vectors per second , and comes with one EISA slot , and rather than tread on its partner 's toes , Samsung hopes to build complementary markets in imaging and scientific visualisation , going entirely through indirect channels . |
| 3 | Cut and sew is very much easier than shaping on the machine so do try it if you have not already done so . |
| 4 | Mr Bewick was criticised strongly yesterday by Mr Sells for carrying out too many operations rather than reflecting on the ethics involved . |
| 5 | An Olympic movement looking ahead rather than reflecting on it 's noble past was how one I O C Committee member described Atlanta 's win over Athens , Bobby Charlton part of Manchester 's bid was n't so sure . |
| 6 | The company is expected to tout the chip as providing the industry 's best dollar/pound-per-MIPS rather than competing on absolute performance . |
| 7 | The worst union representatives are those who create problems rather than solve them , who continually find fault with management rather than build on strengths . |
| 8 | He sat down on a small bedside chair , leaving Culley and Dawson no other option than to sit on the bed , which they did , side by side , like travellers on a train . |
| 9 | I 'd rather stand than sit on the Kop , and it 's obvious that certain of Shankly 's thoughts and methods are still considered and used . |
| 10 | You have more of the ‘ good times ’ and less of the routine day to day jobs when your child can get bored and irritable — I think it does a child good to get to know and trust somebody different , such as a childminder or a nanny , rather than depending on his or her mother entirely for everything . |
| 11 | With such support , pupils have often sorted out ideas and ended by convincing each other , rather than depending on their teacher 's ideas . |
| 12 | I decided it was a good idea to write things down rather than depending on the tape because erm I 'm not actually going to get round to transcribing the tape quickly enough to use it as minutes . |
| 13 | The leader was perhaps doing no more than drawing on the enthusiasm detectable in each of the two components of the party for the idea of citizenship . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's cheaper than experimenting on people , and there are far fewer risks and restrictions . |
| 15 | The philosophy of the Warnock Report ( Department of Education and Science , 1978 ) greatly influenced the content of the 1981 Education Act , particularly with its recommendation that varying and individual educational needs should be acknowledged , rather than prejudged on the basis of categories . |
| 16 | Rather than compromise on welfare payments , they were prepared to resign and leave social butchery to the Tories . |
| 17 | Rather than compromise on these principles , he preferred to withdraw from the scene and wait out his opponents . |
| 18 | The emphasis of paraprofessional training needs to build upon and extend the qualities and skills that these workers bring to the team rather than to concentrate on socializing them to professional or organizational ways of doing things . |
| 19 | As the volume of water required for lockage of the existing traffic was 1,000,000 cubic feet only , it is obvious that it would have been more effective in the saving of water to reduce leakage rather than to concentrate on reducing the passage of water through locks — and much cheaper . |
| 20 | for example , rather than concentrate on food restriction , you might choose to concentrate primarily on increasing consumption of filling , high-fibre , low-fat foods like wholemeal bread or jacket potatoes . |
| 21 | Rather than concentrate on restrictions it is much easier , at least initially , to consider the positive aspect of healthy eating . |
| 22 | Conversely , those individuals who began life in the managerial and professional middle classes may seek power and status rather than concentrate on stress avoidance or a guaranteed supply of money from their careers . |
| 23 | The difficulties of this task are compounded by a natural unwillingness to admit any independent criteria for judging a particular reading , since Althusser 's aim is to interpret Marx in his own terms , rather than to impose on him any independent ( and ideological ) standards . |
| 24 | It is the chief active ingredient in vinegar but the world 's consumption of about two and a half million tonnes per year is used for more than sprinkling on fish and chips . |
| 25 | ‘ Duw , there 's nothing I like better than to work on my own ideas . ’ |
| 26 | Nothing is more fundamental than to work on a precisely accurate plan from the outset . |
| 27 | ‘ Now we lease rather than buy on hire purchase so we can match the payments on equipment to its lifetime and its earnings . |
| 28 | We lease rather than buy on hire purchase so we can match the payments on equipment to its lifetime and its earnings . |
| 29 | Its frail old shell served little other purpose than to squat on the ground and prevent any adjacent developments from creeping across it . |
| 30 | The spectra of solid samples often contain more bands than expected on the basis of the molecular symmetry of single , isolated molecules . |