Example sentences of "than [vb -s] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this means is that the taking of leisure is self-defeating ; the fact that one is one 's own boss adds to , rather than subtracts from , the psychological pressures to do housework . |
| 2 | And I know many older women who have found the kind of partnership that adds to their life rather than subtracts from it . |
| 3 | What is more , Kylie herself profits rather than suffers from her not specially glamorous girl-next-door looks and produces an unstudied and effective portrait of a young , underage provincial girl who falls for Charlie Schlatter 's equally youthful sailor and gets dubbed a deliquent . |
| 4 | Dickinson and colleagues reported that E coli from the faeces of colitics were markedly more adherent to HeLa cells in an in vitro assay than isolates from non-colitic control patients and showed that this adhesin was mannose resistant . |
| 5 | Giaffer and colleagues have recently used a slightly modified buccal cell adhesion assay to show that E coli from ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease patients were significantly more adhesive than isolates from a control group , but thiat this property was independent of disease activity , anatomical site and treatment . |