Example sentences of "than [to-vb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was better not to go out than to go and fall down . |
| 2 | There are bedside books but no bedside ideas ; and books , plays and films are now assumed to exist less to amuse or console than to stimulate and provoke . |
| 3 | Rousseau ( 1762 , p.54 ) wrote in Émile : ‘ Childhood has its own ways of seeing , thinking and feeling ; nothing is more foolish than to try and substitute our ways ’ . |
| 4 | However , region has a history as a concept within geography and it is better to use a new term than to try and alter the definition of a long-established one . |
| 5 | Was it really better to love and lose than to try and avoid the inevitable pain by not loving at all ? |
| 6 | Men thus instructed often found it easier to get on with it than to try and explain the danger all over again . |
| 7 | The answer too is other than to try and work towards the two communities will agree on something and that 's how your how you 'll like it . |
| 8 | Logically most of us would agree that it must be better had these unfortunate beings not been born , than to suffer and die so needlessly . |
| 9 | In corporate terms it has to be made more dangerous to acquiesce than to dissent and this is not an easy trick to turn . |
| 10 | When they are stuck , it is so much more attractive to tell them what I think than to encourage and cajole them to tell me what they think . |
| 11 | It aimed to extend the scale of human social , political and cultural units : to unify and expand rather than to restrict and separate . |
| 12 | " He summoned a meeting , where a simple plan was very simply found : since they had nothing left but their lives and their bodies , they chose to die nobly rather than to betray and abandon their king " . |
| 13 | He can do no more than to respect and serve them both.l |
| 14 | All this is , I know , easier to say than to do and there are times when everyone feels shy . |
| 15 | Although it was originally intended to receive exhibitions rather than to devise and produce them , the new federal Kunsthalle is now setting its sights higher . |
| 16 | If to tax and to please , no more than to love and be wise , is not given to man , may I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment on seeking to do the impossible . |
| 17 | What better way to end a dinner party than to relax and linger over a glass of port and a generous chunk of Stilton . |
| 18 | Before you begin to think that it might be safer to starve than to eat and run the risk of food poisoning , it 's important to get the whole matter of food poisoning into perspective . |
| 19 | He was genially detached , as though brought along to Sleet for no better reason than to admire and be pleasant . |
| 20 | Here the individualistic , childhood-makes-man approach is relatively trivial and , paradoxically , can do little more than to complement and compound the worst aspects of the holistic fallacy by narrowly explaining adult character as a function of cultural conditioning and contemporary family circumstances . |
| 21 | Their survival value is clear : when severe injuries first happen it may be more important to get away at all costs than to stop and attend to them . |
| 22 | Only since the general adoption of the policy of specialisation engendered by the Industrial Revolution has it become common to demolish and rebuild rather than to adapt and extend . |