Example sentences of "than [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Universities tend to train academics and research workers to have very detailed knowledge of relatively narrow aspects of agriculture ; their farms are designed for experiment and demonstration rather than to impart practical skills and experience .
2 In the absence of a specific object , it was assumed that the IRA may have intended little more than to carry out its threat to keep ‘ the war in the Ireland ’ in the limelight during the election campaign .
3 Perhaps I needed more courage to retire than to carry on .
4 Looking specifically at the mid-range commercial systems marketplace , Wendler believes that by 1995 , users are likely to reach a point where the cost of implementing open systems will be less than to carry on as they are .
5 Then the time to locate an address in I 2 will be : I 1 will only be created when it is quicker to search I 1 and then the track to which it points in I 2 , than to carry out an average length search of I 2 .
6 Each such index can be used to give limited partial inversion , i.e. of one descriptor at a time , but they are generally provided and employed to allow the file to be accessed in ways other than by the major key , rather than to carry out an elimination of master file records not meeting some search criterion .
7 Victims were named but the report did not give details of those responsible , its remit being to document repression rather than to carry out a judicial investigation .
8 One answer is to discourage the generation of waste , directly by ’ polluter pays ’ rules , or indirectly through taxation ( eg , on non-returnable bottles ) — an idea easier to offer than to carry out .
9 Nevertheless , if cost effectiveness is seen as a relevant criterion , the potential savings in accident costs alone promise to more than recoup the outlay on the environmental traffic management schemes .
10 Rather than presume that a motorway is required , will my hon. Friend the Minister acknowledge that there is at least one other option — to leave things as they are ?
11 She had lived many times on the edge of danger and she knew better than to sink back to sleep .
12 ‘ Newspapers have promoted a witch hunt rather than reassure a worried public , ’ it says .
13 He could be Proustian : ‘ It is better to desire than to enjoy — to love than be loved . ’
14 ‘ We had no motive other than to enjoy our holiday , ’ said Auguste a little pathetically .
15 But more than fear I felt disgust ; almost all of the dogs were painfully thin and many were diseased .
16 PLAN will be supporting the government 's policy to integrate these children into existing family units rather than absorb them into separate institutions . ’
17 Thus the Lucas workers proposed a range of " telecheric devices " which would react to human intelligence rather than absorb it .
18 With a fight the frames were changed to white and yellow which reflects the heat rather than absorb it .
19 A hedge less than 5–6ft tall is , in my opinion , not much of a hedge at all in wildlife , game , and landscape terms .
20 People often prefer to rationalize after the event and convince themselves things went well and ‘ according to plan ’ , rather than compare what was actually achieved against the objective .
21 The officer was than joined from the next flat by security guard Christopher Coyle , 39 .
22 Superpower involvement has raised the stakes rather than lowered them .
23 Even the economic stimulus package that Congress defeated last week , which contained nearly half a billion dollars for the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) , the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and other federal research agencies ( see right ) , would at best have strengthened existing programmes rather than charting new directions .
24 Paul 's opponents found it easier to agree in synod on his unworthiness for office than to eject him from the episcopal residence .
25 As well as the advantages of uniformity ( which include ease of maintenance ) and cost , microprogramming offers greater flexibility than hardwired logic ; it is easier to alter a control store than to rewire a control unit .
26 Use tends to be higher in UK polytechnics , where the emphasis is on teaching rather than research ( see Castens ) .
27 The controversy is more pronounced in university libraries than in the UK polytechnics , where the emphasis is upon teaching rather than research , and where there are few special collections of the kind to be found in universities .
28 However , perhaps most critical of all in the early stages is social science practice rather than research .
29 The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense .
30 However , most of the research on families is based on clinical samples of families with problems rather than research on ‘ normal ’ families .
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