Example sentences of "than do [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is better , ’ he concluded , ‘ to be a sheep than a wolf , better to be ruined than to do the ruining . ’ |
| 2 | So it was much easier if you had n't got a lot of money to fake some action , and produce some fake Boer war newsreels than to do the real thing . |
| 3 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 4 | I ca n't imagine anything worse than doing a function for three or four because by the , by the laws of average how the hell are you gon na get it out to them all as it should be ? |
| 5 | Sean was reportedly less chuffed about doing this than doing an ‘ ollie shove-it ’ , a very hard skateboarding manoeuvre — however , he did go on to break his leg in two places soon afterwards when he fell off said contraption . |
| 6 | There is no easy solution to this one , other than doing the first ones at a safe altitude , which means at some speed since it is difficult to fly slowly at any height or distance . |
| 7 | If you bought that many bonds then you would effectively be losing around £3.50 a week in interest , not much more than doing the pools . |
| 8 | This stage of training an owl is much more difficult than doing the same stage with a falcon , because with a falcon you just stick a hood over its head and let it get used to all the different noises . |
| 9 | Next Saturday my Medau friend Camilla and I are each going to swim 100 lengths non-stop ( as the ‘ Medau Duo ’ ) in the national charity swimming marathon ( as you might guess , it 's called a ‘ swimathon ’ ) , so have been collecting sponsors , which is rather more arduous than doing the actual swimming . |
| 10 | After collecting all the cash , which is sometimes more difficult and more time consuming than doing the ride , I am pleased to report that the ‘ 24 hr Tour de Matthey ’ has raised a total of £2,800 which is great news , a big thank you to everyone who contributed . |
| 11 | It 's more effective than doing the research at the coast . |
| 12 | Why did he say he would rather resign than do a deal over PR , unless he knew he would n't have to ? |
| 13 | Rather than do a keyhole job on Loyd , TODAY asked him to choose his ideal home from the hundreds of celebrity houses he has visited . |
| 14 | When seen in conjunction with the Cloister Court , of which it forms the northern side and which offers some fine Tudor brickwork , it presents a showpiece of a rather more homely kind than do the grand stone courts of some other colleges . |
| 15 | The influence of Carstairs may still be detected in the handwriting of many Americans who , generally , apply a higher standard to calligraphy than do the English for similar purposes . |
| 16 | This gerbil is strictly nocturnal in contrast to some of the more common rodents , and as a result it suffers more predation by the owls than do the others . |
| 17 | There is a case to argue for twins , though genetic similarities have more to do with their parallel lives than do the stars . |
| 18 | Possibly the Allan Hills present a more complete barrier to ice flow than do the Yamato Mountains , which may let numerous specimens ride past them . |
| 19 | The results could be vaccines against flu that provide much longer immunity against influenza , than do the present killed-virus vaccines . |
| 20 | They come together much less frequently , from distinct and different settings , and they know much less about each other than do the members of a hospital team , who gain a natural and unforced understanding of each other 's roles and characteristics , and adapt accordingly . |
| 21 | There are certain routine practices , customs and procedures in our society whose consequence is that black people have poorer jobs , health , housing , education and life chances than do the white majority . |
| 22 | The popular tabloids , on the other hand , charge considerably less for their advertising space per thousand readers than do the qualities and this forces them to try to maximize sales . |
| 23 | Both types of survey show a far higher figure for crimes committed than do the official statistics produced by the police . |
| 24 | The fractional-order beam intensities can be written , by analogy with holography , as It can be shown that the first and second terms are actually the squares of amplitudes of scattered waves , and their major components have lower frequencies than do the third and the last terms , and can therefore be suppressed ( refs 8 , 14 ; P.H. and D.A.K. , unpublished results ) . |
| 25 | In other respects as well , choice theories confine the scope of legal liability more narrowly than do the ‘ harm to interests ’ theories . |
| 26 | But we make common cause in attaching more significance to them than do the theories ( except perhaps for Idealism ) discussed so far . |
| 27 | However one interprets the data , there is , therefore , good evidence that the working class have more frequent contact with a wider range of kin than do the professional and managerial class . |
| 28 | If — as appears to be the case — detected offenders typically start from a position of social disadvantage ( which means that the obligation to obey the law weighs more heavily upon them than on others ) then punishment will tend to increase inequality rather than do the opposite . |
| 29 | The peculiar circumstances of the Slovene nation 's historical experience help to explain why Slovenia today enjoys a higher standard of living , a higher level of industrial and educational achievement , and a greater degree of ‘ westernization ’ than do the other Yugoslav republics . |
| 30 | Both reformers and opponents had expected a more striking change in the size of the electorate but in so far as it introduced a new class to political influence the Great Reform Act deserves to be considered a revolution no less and perhaps more — than do the events of 1830 in Paris . |