Example sentences of "[det] than for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local hierarchy did not always read off academic excellence as the desired end of local practice , so that there was less concern in these rural areas for the fate of the top few than for that of the majority . |
| 2 | Discrimination between individuals consists in making it easier for some than for others to realize their ideals of the good . |
| 3 | If these underground emotions came to the surface all at once , they would shatter our existence , but fortunately they come upon us gradually — more so for some than for others . |
| 4 | Dickens 's Will Fern , with first-hand knowledge of life inside one , complains of this female tendency : ‘ It looks well in a picter , I 've heerd say ; but there a n't weather in picters , and maybe ‘ t is fitter for that than for a place to live in . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Guys like Stefan and Boris will be more pumped up for that than for a preparation tournament . ’ |
| 6 | Only a handful of letters for these years have been preserved ; fewer than for any similar period of his later life . |
| 7 | 172 bomb incidents this year — 54 fewer than for the same period last year . |
| 8 | The book highlights such subjects as animism , Jewish , Christian and Hellenistic ‘ mythologies ’ ; the realities of health , sickness and death ; of nature — its seasons ( notably Spring and Winter ) and its glories , as well as its decadence ( we find no evidence for Djwa 's contention that ‘ the book moves through cycles of winter death followed by spring rebirth , ’ any more than for her ‘ structural myth ’ or ‘ controlling Orpheus myth ’ which form the foundation for her critique of the book ) ; of rationality and madness ; loneliness and intimacy ; of truth and treachery , prayer and protest ; of prophet and priest , doctors and teachers , angels and devils ; freedom and slavery , sainthood and sinning , wonder and despair , war and peace , love and loss , beauty and brutality ; regret and humour ; sensuality and discipline , joy and sadness ; of the greatness of God and his creation , and the pitiful smallness and incompetency of man ; the city and the breadth of nature itself : sea and air , rivers and countryside ; savagery and urbanity ; loss and its disappointing pangs . |
| 9 | No more than for any other trad. wedding . |
| 10 | It is clear that what Bukharin had in mind here was that the ‘ town ’ must provide consumer goods and means of production to agriculture on such a scale as to make it worthwhile for the peasants to produce more than for their own immediate needs . |
| 11 | More than for 'im . |
| 12 | Life was not all work and no play for women any more than for men ; even if they had chores to do at home , the women compositors — who almost by definition young and/or unmarried — had the chance to escape duty for pleasure from time to time . |
| 13 | For you , perhaps even more than for me . ’ |
| 14 | Prescriptions for men cost more than for women aged between 25 and 84 years . |
| 15 | But if you decide a 33MHz 486SX is the machine for you , be prepared to pay around £100 more than for a comparable 25MHz system . |
| 16 | You are unselfish and care for other people more than for yourself ; you 're also outstanding and original in what you do . |
| 17 | More than 77,000 people have visited the exhibition to find out for themselves already this year — that 's almost 28,000 more than for the same period in 1991 ! |
| 18 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 19 | In the past nine months the terror group — which boasts a bigger membership than the IRA — has murdered 14 people , two more than for the same period last year . |
| 20 | Even though the same might be argued for painting , the technical obstacles to be overcome for painting are very much less than for sculpture . |
| 21 | There is the inevitable paperwork , but this is much less than for section police although , given the antipathy to paperwork in all police forces , it is surprising how the neighbourhood men welcome it on cold , wintry mornings . |
| 22 | Although the price of a dishwasher may seem expensive , the costs of actually running the machine can work out to be far less than for washing-up by hand . |
| 23 | The setting-up costs of a PEP are far less than for an endowment policy , so , investment conditions permitting , early encashment should not prove penal . |
| 24 | The skills required were no less than for the intricate metalworking and jewelling skills of the Kentish craftsmen , but the effort and raw materials required were on an altogether different scale . |
| 25 | Again most of these stars are red , with spectral types of M , R , N or S. Their amplitudes are less than for the Mira stars , and usually amount to little more than a magnitude . |
| 26 | Programming time is usually less than for an optimization technique but designer time is frequently greater . |
| 27 | Hours of teaching practice varied between 90 and 630 , and supervision ( ignoring those who listed upwards of 100 hours ! ) was often for less than 10 hours in total — noticeably less than for English on average . |
| 28 | Hotspur had promised her a fair deliverance , vouching for the prince no less than for himself , and in his promise she believed as in the mass . |
| 29 | US aid for fiscal year 1991 , set at $50,000,000 , was $15,000,000 less than for 1990 . |
| 30 | Regarding quality , the incentive for group members to be well informed is less than for private individuals because of the opportunity to try and free-ride on the information of others . |