Example sentences of "than [v-ing] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go round the animals rather than walking through a group of them . |
| 2 | I ask him about his days as a commodities broker on Wall Street — Koons spent his days as a struggling artist working on Wall Street rather than starving in a garret — and he directed his answer to Ilona , because the anecdote shows the charming , apple-pie side of his nature . |
| 3 | Rather than dying for a reason she does n't comprehend . ’ |
| 4 | Furthermore , the escapement is hinged to the key rather than fitting into a slot and the hammer points towards the player . |
| 5 | Better than believing in a god . |
| 6 | Rather than looking in a magazine and buying something that that erm |
| 7 | This will mean that funding will go where it is most needed locally rather than according to a set of priorities determined in Whitehall . |
| 8 | Mathematics has become dehumanised , rather than developing as a means to explore patterns and relationships in the real world . |
| 9 | if Frank can get some first team football in spain i guess he feels that it will be better for his career than waiting for a chance at leeds — a chance that much likely will not come up . |
| 10 | It 's late now , and it 'll be quicker than waiting for a cab — and it 's insured for all drivers . |
| 11 | Taking a funeral policy can cost less than paying for a funeral plan by instalments but it depends on average life expectancy . |
| 12 | Allocations under this heading are based upon estimates of actual numbers of pupils , with the result that discretionary expenditure on children above the minimum school leaving age is compensated , rather than adhering to a principle of assessing basic needs equitably . |
| 13 | He used to say that nothing could be more ludicrous than going to a football match and then reading somebody else 's account of what you had already seen . |
| 14 | I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are . |
| 15 | All that was easy to believe now , it was easy to imagine the drunkenness , and Timothy Gedge letting the facts slip out because he did n't care , because he 'd find it enjoyable , even better than going to a funeral . |
| 16 | I found being introduced to people individually , as they arrived , much easier than going into a room full of new babies and it was good to share experiences . |
| 17 | Trailing 6-3 , Cardiff won a last-chance scrum on the Swansea line and the players pressured Hall into running the ball rather than going for a drop goal which would have given them a draw . |
| 18 | So nothing could be more natural than going for a walk and holding hands with mum . |
| 19 | However , rather than leading to a debate on the nature and aims and purpose of English studies , the Cambridge Crisis generated , on the one hand , a defence of pluralism , and , on the other , a retrenchment in the name of the unique value of the English classics . |
| 20 | Jonjo O'Neil says racing on Sunday is a much better idea than racing on a Monday when most people are at work . |
| 21 | They are more likely to do this if they are seen to be making a direct and positive contribution to the school 's consultative and decision-making processes , rather than observing from a distance in a way that underlines the ‘ us-them ’ relationship . |
| 22 | He goes out alone … and sometimes he goes to the bank and draws out large sums of money … it 's worse than dealing with a child … the most wearing part is the mental strain , not the washing and things like that ; it 's the having to take the lead all the time … [ 24 ; 1H I can stand the strain at the moment , but I ca n't say for how long . |
| 23 | After a hard day at the office — in Joey Dunlop 's case the Carrowdore 100 — our world motorcycle ace likes nothing better than unwinding with a cup of tea and a bite to eat . |
| 24 | There is a great deal of potential here for criminalising conduct that amounts to little more than arguing with a policeman , which it should be one of the aims of public order law to prevent . |
| 25 | When the younger counsellor shares these experiences with the older counsellee they are both doing far more than embarking on a process of recalling the past , they are sharing a common heritage which has been formative for the young as well as the old , although less directly so . |
| 26 | That 's fun — nothing is more boring than playing to a metronome . |
| 27 | As an exercise in questioning ‘ traditional ’ ideas regarding masculinity and femininity this work contends with basics such as there is more to femininity than putting on a skirt ! |
| 28 | It is in the outpatient department that many people feel particularly vulnerable as they wait in a cubicle , wearing paper gowns with no idea of what is happening , as staff rush around self-consciously doing more important things than talking to a patient . |
| 29 | This is a lot worse than talking into a tape-recorder ! |
| 30 | Fighting for a place in the Leeds United line-up must be better and more important than fighting for a place in Norway 's World Cup squad . |