Example sentences of "than from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the models were from chemistry rather than from history ; the idea was to give an account of how the parts of the organism were formed in embryology , and how they functioned in life . |
| 2 | Learning about crucial matters to do with one 's own job or work environment from sources such as the grapevine , or via newspapers , rather than from management , is bound to generate resentment and mistrust . |
| 3 | It is also helpful if it can be shown there have been arm 's length negotiations between management and the institutions and that the price benefit to management ( ie the fact that management acquire control of Newco but pay no more per share than the institutions and/or pay less than 50% of the price for more than 50% of the equity ) derives from those negotiations , rather than from management 's employment by Target . |
| 4 | The next phase of Haslam 's career was one where he moved about from company to company rather than from function to function . |
| 5 | Already more children may be dying with AIDS than from famine and 11 million are carrying the virus HIV , 1 in 250 of all adults worldwide . |
| 6 | In an earlier chapter I noted that a study of poor people 's movements in the US concluded that such influence as they had was derived from mass protests rather than from participation in electoral politics ; and a study of the economic progress of black Americans in the late 1970s argued that it was ‘ under the impetus of the civil rights movement and the ghetto revolts of the sixties , [ that ] blacks gained access to new employment opportunities in business , government , the media , and high paying jobs in the skilled crafts ’ ( Smith , 1978 ) . |
| 7 | The challenge to Swahili came less from local African languages than from English . |
| 8 | ( As we pointed out in Chapter 1 , both kinds of error frequently arise from performance limitations of the speaker rather than from competence limitations . ) |
| 9 | So while merchant prosperity was the reverse side of warrior impoverishment , the vested interests of merchants in the Bakufu- han structure meant that they had more to fear from change than from continuation of the system . |
| 10 | Since the tax was paid out of the financial resources of the merchants it was quite proper to seek consent from them rather than from parliament , but the merchants were suspected , no doubt with some justification , of seeking to pass the real burden of the tax on to the producers . |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe she is alive , ’ said Wexford , more from a mischievous desire to throw a spanner in the works than from conviction . |
| 12 | Unlike Chinese porcelain , very popular in Europe at the time , the french porcelain was made from a previously fired glassy mixture , rather than from feldspar and kaolin . |
| 13 | But if he rubbed his eyes that late afternoon it was more from surprise than from exhaustion . |
| 14 | While there are instances of seemingly unnecessarily high pricing , some at least probably arise more from inefficiencies than from exploitation — which of course does not bode well for the long-term survival of those establishments . |
| 15 | But generally it was felt that mothers could be relied upon to exert themselves on behalf of their children and that mismanagement resulted more from ignorance than from vice . |
| 16 | Men do n't usually take much part in these things , ’ she added , more from experience than from cynicism . |
| 17 | However , iron is far less readily absorbed from these plant sources than from animal sources . |
| 18 | The police , for reasons of economy of control rather than from partiality , accepted , tolerated , even encouraged the solemn formalities of stateless justice ; the Zuwaya equally did not reject due process of courts and judgements : these were not exclusive . |
| 19 | The inclusion of the former originated less from public concern over any alleged malpractice than from lack of confidence , felt mainly but not wholly within the legal profession , in procedures whereby ultimate responsibility for prosecuting as well as investigating in the vast majority of cases rested with the police . |
| 20 | There are more queries from Grace than from Dreadnought , are n't there ? " |
| 21 | I always preferred bank fishing Toftingall and invariably had better results than from fishing from the boat . |
| 22 | He did n't seem upset that it was empty and Trent had the feeling that , given the chance , the President would have poured himself another whisky and drunk it for something to do rather than from desire for alcohol . |
| 23 | But , anyway , I said yes , because I thought I could escape from him easier than from madam . |
| 24 | These are calculated from the number of students registered for each module together with its size , single or double , rather than from class hours . |
| 25 | Negative attitudes tend to spread more easily amongst individuals than from group to group because members of a group can argue more effectively amongst themselves than can an individual . |
| 26 | He thanked her for coming and saw her off the premises , but he was left wondering at her distress which seemed to arise more from fear than from grief . |
| 27 | With its emphasis on universal downwearing , it was a negative and obliterating conception resulting from cerebral analysis rather than from observation and has led to sterility in geomorphologic thought and retarded progress in the subject severely . |
| 28 | They argued that decentralization could not be divorced from the increasing pressures which industry was facing , nor indeed from deindustrialization itself : that while location factors might indicate why movement took place from area A to area B rather than from area Y to area Z ( though the technical arguments above disputed even that ) , they gave no help in explaining why there was movement in the first place . |
| 29 | Now nation and people were linked in a nationalism constructed from a common inheritance rather than from opposition to potentially antagonistic nationalisms ( ibid. p 169 ) . |
| 30 | Certainly Constanze and Wolfgang seem to have gained more satisfaction from their marital relationship than from parenthood : on two occasions they abandoned a newly born baby to the mercies of a wet-nurse while they undertook a prolonged journey ; and , while Mozart occasionally refers affectionately to his eldest son in his letters , the little boy was sent away to school as soon as possible , presumably to give his father some peace to work . |