Example sentences of "than try " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little waves ‘ strike ’ the shore , the high part of an advancing wave is a ‘ hump ’ ; looking to another portion of creation , it would surely be better , but impossible , just to ‘ observe ’ the behaviour of migrating starlings than to try to understand it through the conflicting ‘ explanations ’ that have been proposed for it . |
| 2 | No one can doubt that it is far better to aim to prevent job problems arising than to try to cure them by means of a law suit . |
| 3 | Student astrologers , along with some scientists , often try to defend astrology as a logical workable system , but the old hands know better than to try . |
| 4 | Rousseau ( 1762 , p.54 ) wrote in Émile : ‘ Childhood has its own ways of seeing , thinking and feeling ; nothing is more foolish than to try and substitute our ways ’ . |
| 5 | Even tariffs may have helped by making it better business to own factories inside a market than to try to break into it from outside : the Germans and Swiss supplied the French textile industry in 1900 from eight factories inside France , Germans made chemicals in Russia , and other Germans invested heavily in the coal mines of French Lorraine . |
| 6 | However , region has a history as a concept within geography and it is better to use a new term than to try and alter the definition of a long-established one . |
| 7 | Graham was only a little impatient , and he knew better than to try to hurry Slater up . |
| 8 | Was it really better to love and lose than to try and avoid the inevitable pain by not loving at all ? |
| 9 | Men thus instructed often found it easier to get on with it than to try and explain the danger all over again . |
| 10 | It 'll be easier to clean the whole lot off than to try to repair the mess . |
| 11 | This covert attitude of declaring oneself unable to conceive as possible an exercising of audacity which in fact really took place gives the impression that the speaker thinks that the persons who did the action should have known better than to try . |
| 12 | She liked nothing better than to try to match a stranger 's characteristics and behaviour with a particular sign , then try to find out if she was right . ’ |
| 13 | than to try to take a mean and petty advantage of anybody or anything . |
| 14 | The answer too is other than to try and work towards the two communities will agree on something and that 's how your how you 'll like it . |
| 15 | Remember , if the height is marginal it may be safer to land across the field a little out of wind , rather than try and complete the turn with insufficient height . |
| 16 | one solution … is to use subjectivity rather than try to push it aside … and [ so ] it might well be included in analyses and used consciously as a research tool . |
| 17 | Many girls were saying to me , ‘ I ca n't cope with having breasts , the hassle it brings , the fear of rape or the jokes and remarks from boys , the idea that I must be a slag or a ‘ goer ’ , so rather than try to deal with the whole world ( which I ca n't ) , I 'll just turn all my anger inwards against myself , against the thing I can control : my body . ’ |
| 18 | The aim of the three-to-seven-year leasing programme is to free 1,250 pubs from the brewers ' tie before the November deadline , rather than try to sell them into a depressed market . |
| 19 | Rather than try to describe to a journalist the subtle but crucial distinctions between individual and group differences , these scholars describe their results in technical journals and allow merchants to sell their products quietly . |
| 20 | However , we recommend that you keep to the usual recommended calorie intakes for weight loss , and reap the additional advantages in ease and speed , rather than try to eat even fewer calories than usually recommended in a diet . |
| 21 | Having said all that , you should keep your hands and nails in good condition for yourself and be proud of them rather than try to hide them away from view . |
| 22 | July is a significant month for your future , and with Uranus and Neptune involved it may be that you have to put your trust in the universe rather than try to control events . |
| 23 | It is much better to try a simpler design and to be thrilled with the results rather than try something more complicated and then feel despondent because it did n't work . |
| 24 | You will then still have enough material with which to create an attractive picture , rather than try to make a suitable design from a few odds and ends . |
| 25 | Writers , as I 've argued before , tend to use these contradictions rather than try to pretend they 're not there . |
| 26 | Here it would be wise to offer a set of modules limited to some aspect of EP rather than try to cover the whole in less depth . |
| 27 | Rather than try to change the reluctant-to-move employees ' attitudes or even find out why they reject the transfer , companies may accept the easy option and transfer other willing individuals . |
| 28 | In practice the solution was to find the right placement for the children , rather than try to help the parents , child or care staff to adjust to each other . |
| 29 | Unlike the demos you get on ZZAP ! 64 covertapes , PD demos tend to illustrate what the programmer or the host machine can do rather than try to sell you a game . |
| 30 | Roy Jenkins and David Owen both left the Labour Party rather than try to pursue their leadership ambitions as outsiders . |