Example sentences of "[noun sg] than for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Better for a horse than for a man , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee with relish . |
| 2 | The bit about is OK but should the Lukic figure read — 1.5 million , he has after all scored more goals for the opposition than for us . |
| 3 | Poll books recording the electoral choices of individual voters are common survivals from the years before the Secret Ballot Act of 1872 , but are more numerous for borough than for county constituencies , and have all too frequently been studied in isolation from other types of evidence . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh my boy , my boy , home at last ! ’ cried Mrs Clare , who at that moment cared no more for Angel 's lack of religion than for the dust on his clothes . |
| 5 | Is it any better to act for the National Rifle Association than for the Cote d'Azur Development Agency , to take one name from his appendix ? |
| 6 | Calculation of standard errors of sample statistics is generally more complicated for the sampling schemes described in this chapter than for the simple random sample . |
| 7 | Staff went on strike more for the survival of the IBOA than for monetary gain . |
| 8 | It was films depicting behaviour which seemed perverse or deviant which were seen as more suitable for private therapy than for public consumption , since the possibility of harm to at least a proportion of the wider public could not be ruled out . |
| 9 | Will he therefore redouble his efforts to promote NHS trusts while ignoring the ill-founded criticism of Opposition Members , who are prepared to argue more for party dogma than for patient care ? |
| 10 | Mr Lang claimed that Scottish spending per head ‘ was a substantially higher average figure than for equivalent services in England ’ . |
| 11 | For instance , in January 1986 the male unemployment rate for Inner London stood at 21.9 per cent , compared with 14.4 per cent at the 1981 census — a much steeper rise than for Outer London ; where the rates were 9.9 and 8.0 per cent respectively . |
| 12 | Industry analysts consulted about the failure of the deal to sell up to 30% of Electronic Data Systems Corp to British Telecommunications Plc unanimously concurred that the deal was more critical for EDS owner General Motors Corp than for EDS and would have no short-term impact on the world 's largest systems integration company . |
| 13 | So Same 's solution is to provide more force for high-up hitching than for low-down hitching . |
| 14 | Arguably he was known to Londoners less for his medical expertise than for his incredible eccentricity , which was exaggerated by a long beard , a predilection for extraordinary costume and his habit of riding about in the streets and Hyde Park on a white pony , which he sometimes painted all purple or , when the mood took him , purple with black spots . |
| 15 | However , this is more surely an argument for adequate preparation than for a refusal to appear . |
| 16 | Immersion in water is less beneficial for the skin than for the woman , however . |
| 17 | We had read that the Toraja hunted heads until as recently as the 1920s , but they were feared by their neighbours less for their ferocity than for their magic , part of which was their unnerving reputation for being able to cause the dead to walk . |
| 18 | The ratio also tends to be higher for totally symmetric modes that involve angle bending than for pure stretching modes . |
| 19 | Such discounts can mean the price is many times lower for the branded drug than for the generic drug and consultants may be unaware of the price in the community . |
| 20 | Aluminium likes silicon : it has a greater affinity for inorganic silicate than for anything else . |
| 21 | For the few people on low incomes who do have credit , paying it off tends to soak up more of their budget than for people with higher incomes . |
| 22 | And what better solution can there be for a decayed or threatened landscape park than for it to become a deer park once again ? |
| 23 | You can qualify for housing benefit on a higher income than for supplementary benefit . |
| 24 | It is perhaps slightly easier for the writer than for the reader . |
| 25 | This effect is doubtless less for victor than for vanquished , but the victor will not be spared it . |
| 26 | Gender disadvantage is of course bound up with concepts of identity and role and may be more problematic for some newly retired men who have invested much in their world of work than for those women who have centred their existence in the home . |
| 27 | The disparity between different sized companies mentioned opposite was found to be more pronounced in the software and services sector than for hardware companies . |
| 28 | It is easier for a husband to be found for a thin , and therefore supposedly beautiful , girl than for a plump one . |
| 29 | However , these pauses were considerably longer for the philosophical section of the passage than for the description of the countryside . |
| 30 | Similarly his sermons were memorable less for their theology than for digressions ranging from the price of second-hand books to a dramatic reading from Macbeth . |