Example sentences of "[adv] than [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are various ways of improving the lot of hens but we do need to ask the hens themselves rather than make up their minds for them . |
| 2 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |
| 3 | Rather than delve more into the riches of Dinah 's more earthy blues recordings , it concentrates on her versions of all too familiar standards , the staple diet of supper club crooners the world over ; |
| 4 | Many young people run away from home rather than face up to their problems . |
| 5 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 6 | Rather than face up to change , however , politicians , especially in the Conservative Party , campaigned for the use of the tariff to keep out foreign goods and to provide subsidies to British industry and so slow down the process of adjustment . |
| 7 | Rather than face up to the horrendous alienation implied by such strong electoral support for Sinn Fein , the Government has closed its eyes and now compels the population to do the same . |
| 8 | Whilst other people recognise that the alcohol-induced sense of unconditioned acceptance is a false sensation , the sufferers from addictive disease may cling to it even to death rather than face up to the reality of the need to accept any conditions in life . |
| 9 | Sometimes , though , we can be so afraid of what other people think that we shut up rather than speak up . |
| 10 | If they are unusually anxious or irritated , they may find the noise just too much to deal with and stalk off in a feline sulk rather than squat down for a good meal . |
| 11 | Rather than carry on with such negative action , John and Colin decided to do something more constructive and let the general public know just what their activities involved . |
| 12 | My people feel that the right hon. Gentleman would have been better employed if he had rushed to comfort the bereaved rather than carry out a song-and-dance act among people in Dublin , or even watch a rugby match . |
| 13 | Free Colombia also said it wanted to liquidate Escobar , but preferred to gather intelligence on his whereabouts rather than carry out attacks . |
| 14 | Consequently increased emphasis needs to be placed upon the role of assessment , rehabilitation and transfer rather than discharge back into the community . |
| 15 | tends toward resignation rather than protest especially in |
| 16 | Yet , rather than think out new and just ways of distributing the riches to which we have all fallen heir , it uses those riches as the basis for deadly quarrels . |
| 17 | Rather than examine just one of Tony Revell 's acoustics , we thought we 'd take a look at two instead . |
| 18 | Leese 's ludicrous argument appeared even more bizarre , given his inflexible belief that acquired characteristics could not be inherited and that genetic endowment and not environment , culture or education determined behaviour ; when applied to mankind these ideas led him to criticize Spengler and other nationalists for seeing culture rather than race as determining human action . |
| 19 | McClellan proposed a different series of categories based upon what he called the function of material , rather than level alone . |
| 20 | I think one of the things the American companies often do is that , rather than set up on a green field site , they often buy into an existing company , erm , and therefore it 's , it 's , it 's a , it 's a somewhat different form of investment to the |
| 21 | As the system is updated , nothing is lost for storage is so cheap that it is always more cost effective to slap a primitive TEI type header on each block of data and transfer it to the next store rather than sort out what is likely to be needed from what is not . |
| 22 | Mrs Duffy left at once , but Clare felt it would be more polite to linger for a while , rather than rush out after the couple , as if the wedding had been an annoying chore . |
| 23 | rather than walk round with wads in your pocket every day , they liked to be able to work on a day to day pay system |
| 24 | The president , Sir Lawrence Byford , talked me out of it yesterday by imploring me to stay and fight my corner rather than walk away . |
| 25 | Rather than walk back on your own . |
| 26 | There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups . |
| 27 | ‘ I am determined that we build solidly rather than build fast . ’ |
| 28 | American Can chose to move into an existing modern building rather than build afresh . |
| 29 | Bachelard himself preferred to give examples of such ruptures rather than theorize how they took place . |
| 30 | Normally printers of this type are classified as non-impact but this version actually deposits carbon rather than burn away a layer of silvering . |