Example sentences of "than to give " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are planning to give a particularly large sum , it is always more advantageous to give out of income by covenant than to give a capital sum . |
| 2 | ‘ What could be more democratic than to give people a direct say in these things ? |
| 3 | In politics it is more blessed not to take than to give . |
| 4 | There is , perhaps , nothing more difficult than to give a precise and consistent meaning to the word ‘ property ’ . |
| 5 | It is only recently that I discovered that we are all born potentially good , demanding love and wanting nothing more than to give it in return . |
| 6 | it is usually easier to give examples of individual words ( which distinguish dialects , styles , etc. ) , than to give examples of pronunciation , grammar and textual organisation ; |
| 7 | it is easier to give relevant , but isolated , examples than to give more systematic and sustained descriptions and analyses ; and description is easier than discussing the principles underlying the examples . |
| 8 | In most cases it is better to improve your credit control than to give a discount to entice payment . |
| 9 | Its somewhat sketchy character suggests , in fact , that his main purpose was simply to finish what he had begun rather than to give urgent or forceful expression to his views . |
| 10 | West Germany was still very prosperous in the late 1970s , improvements were being made in living standards and Schmidt was able to limit the difficulties in the economy , even if he often seemed to react to events rather than to give the country any real sense of direction . |
| 11 | Now , if for no other reason than to give me pleasure , will you please smile ? ’ |
| 12 | 789–90 that his oldest son , Charles , should marry one of Offa 's daughters may already have been more an attempt to ‘ patch up bad relations ’ than to give effect to good ones , and , when acceptance of this extremely prestigious offer was made dependent by Offa on one of Charlemagne 's daughters marrying Ecgfrith , so affronted was Charlemagne that he gave orders that no one from Britain and the Anglian race was to land on the sea-coast of Gaul for the sake of commerce . |
| 13 | If that did n't work , it was more logical to let her express her anger in the safety of her mother 's arms than to give her an irrelevant bottle , dummy or biscuit . |
| 14 | Since it was possible to examine only a sample of such studies , what follows is aimed to reflect the fact of risk related fertility patterns rather than to give an accounting of the extent and paths of influence . |
| 15 | ‘ Adolph , I would like nothing better than to give you the chance to start your life again , but Colonel Goreng … he 's the cautious one . |
| 16 | The trick is to keep the line direct to the float , without disturbing the float more than to give it a slight lift . |
| 17 | members to members , and not perhaps for officers to interfere too much other than to give you background information , and it has been falling off , let me just say that . |
| 18 | ‘ He has proved a better confidential secretary than to give revealing answers , despite his weakness for the opposite sex — however beautiful , ’ Ven replied . |
| 19 | The other answer is that erm certainly some trials have been done with patients not being diagnosed by a computer , but by giving initial information like their age , their date of birth , erm where the pain is , etc. erm actually interacting themselves with the computer , and studies have shown curiously that patients actually prefer to use a computer rather than to give this information to a doctor . |