Example sentences of "than [to-vb] " 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 | She had lived many times on the edge of danger and she knew better than to sink back to sleep . |
| 10 | He could be Proustian : ‘ It is better to desire than to enjoy — to love than be loved . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We had no motive other than to enjoy our holiday , ’ said Auguste a little pathetically . |
| 12 | Paul 's opponents found it easier to agree in synod on his unworthiness for office than to eject him from the episcopal residence . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He considers that the nineteenth century cases of Camplin , Flattery and Williams accomplished no more than to include within rape sexual intercourse with an unconscious woman or one deceived by a specific type of fraud and that the 1976 Act merely declares the law as it was established at that time . |
| 15 | In those days , she might have been no more mad than to fall for a handsome stranger and carry his child . |
| 16 | It is better to learn a small section thoroughly than to surface-read it and then have to go back to do the whole thing again . |
| 17 | After the initial impetus has run out , he wrote , and before one has got in so far that it is easier to finish than to go back , it is then that it becomes hard to be sure of your footing , hard to know why you are doing what you are doing , hard to know if you are doing correctly what you are doing . |
| 18 | It was better not to go out than to go and fall down . |
| 19 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 20 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 21 | I realised Michael could save me maybe five years of work , but I figured I 'd rather go slow and steady than to go fast and have it all fall apart . |
| 22 | I knew better than to go in . |
| 23 | She was beset by the realization that she desired nothing more than to go to the Hall as Anne Mowbray 's companion . |
| 24 | If this is the case , it is better for employees to know and understand this before going abroad rather than to go out with high hopes only to return to Britain dispirited . |
| 25 | the evidence that we 've found out already from C H C is that the operation of the N H S reforms has restrictive patient choice because crucially those referrals to London teaching hospitals which used to made as a matter of course if treatment is unable er , unavailable in Harlow have actually been largely stopped , I got the detailed figures from the purchasing director erm er , recently in the C F C minutes and it shows a miniscule number of patients being referred to London teaching hospitals erm , and this is clearly the reason as this points out in this paper that London teaching hospitals are in serious financial problems and four of them , indeed are being threatened with closure by the Tomlinson report and I think many patients in Harlow would much rather as er , people have pointed out , go to er , Middlesex and U C H , should they still exist than to go to Colchester and er , but this is this a key question , so on the the basis of the this consortium does n't meet those criticisms indeed , make the situation worse I move that we oppose it in principle that Vince reports on that line . |
| 26 | I do n't fiddle my results really — usually it 's easier to make up excuses for it being wrong than to go through and work it out to make it come out right . |
| 27 | And if you 're a policeman on the beat , with an eye on promotion , what easier way to keep your arrest rate up than to go out and pull in some black kids off the street . |
| 28 | If diarrhoea is described in some particular terms rather than others ( e.g. if it described as empacho ) the patient is more likely to consult a traditional practitioner than to go to a health clinic . |
| 29 | All these issues can , however , be satisfactorily resolved with tact and consultation , and overall , it is usually better to be patient and to move slowly , gradually involving reluctant or sceptical professionals and attempting to meet their anxieties , than to go it alone . |
| 30 | When is it more important to go backwards fast than to go accurately under control ? |