Example sentences of "than for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the sons and daughters of the farming family was imposed the strict necessity of abstaining from sexual activity other than for the first born , so as not to impair the integrity of land succession . |
| 2 | What clearly frustrates him is that so much of the money now sloshing around in professional tennis , is being spent in damaging — or at least potentially damaging ways — rather than for the good of the game , as well as for the good of the individuals who are benefitting . |
| 3 | He has cared deeply that his contemporaries and juniors should write well ; he has cared less for his personal achievement than for the life of letters and art . |
| 4 | ‘ The differences in our electorate are much bigger than for the conservative parties , ’ says Heidi Wieczorek-Zeul , a member of the party praesidium . |
| 5 | They submitted that the commissioner had no jurisdiction to adjudicate on the status of the road verges generally or otherwise than for the limited purpose of deciding what entries should be contained in the register . |
| 6 | As a result , the majority of farmers continued to concentrate their efforts on the production of food for their own families , rather than for the market . |
| 7 | The evidence for this stage , Morgan and Engels believed , was stronger than for the first two stages . |
| 8 | In the London suburb where I live we see plenty of foxes , and I feel far greater affection for them than for the local cats or dogs . |
| 9 | ‘ They break the rules because Bawden cares less for rules than for the things he has to say about the feel of a summer morning , the watery sunshine of an April afternoon , or the flurry of a February snowstorm . ’ |
| 10 | But if it looks vindictive — more a battle for Saddam 's head than for the liberation of Kuwait — public opinion in the West could soon turn . |
| 11 | All those rules were for nominal measures — money supply , public spending and borrowing , growth in money GDP — rather than for the volume goals of output , jobs and expenditure that most earlier governments had pursued in vain . |
| 12 | Aid officials agree that conditions are far better than for the wretched Kurds stuck on the freezing mountains . |
| 13 | This factor serves to distinguish driving cases from those of deaths resulting from a single punch , and also to bolster the argument that the penalties for the former should be higher than for the latter . |
| 14 | ‘ However , I do think that they are a breed more for the connoisseur than for the average dog owner . ’ |
| 15 | We found that it was cheaper for the four Europeans to travel to America than for the two Americans to come to London or Berlin . |
| 16 | The point they are making is that , for the most part , people still vote more for political parties in Britain than for the individual candidate . |
| 17 | Charges are higher than for the society 's standard dealing system because the stockbroker can not itself be paid on the deal until the end of the stock exchange account , an average of 10 days ' delay . |
| 18 | It 's more important for me , than for the Premier League , to get the right balance between cash and exposure . |
| 19 | For the full-time farmer the type of land assumed much greater importance than for the part-time farmer . |
| 20 | During assessment , it was more frequently the case ( approaching significance ) for the specialist team than for the other teams that more than one visit was made to the client . |
| 21 | Nash argues that the position of women has deteriorated despite development activities because of the concentration on production for profit rather than for the welfare of the population in many Third World countries . |
| 22 | Yet their fate is a lesson for others , none more so than for the Palestinians . |
| 23 | The turnout was much smaller than for the Coalisland — Dungannon march , at about four hundred . |
| 24 | The difference is that the tank provides for the passive task of soaking items rather than for the active role of washing . |
| 25 | In Australia the absence of population in the great central deserts ensured that the stations were built more for the benefit of the trains than for the nonexistent passengers and goods . |
| 26 | It seems clear , however , that it would be possible in other similar circumstances for a police officer to detain such a person for what he or she did after the offence rather than for the crime itself . |
| 27 | For many emigrants , conditions at sea were no better than for the animals these ships carried . |
| 28 | For example , in the 1985 Green Paper on the future of the universities ( altogether a somewhat hasty and ill-expressed document ) it was suggested that more money should be given to universities , and more places offered to students , for sciences than for the arts , and this policy is now being implemented , with considerable effect on the schools . |
| 29 | Until then , cattle had been required mainly for work and milk but an increasing demand for meat inspired Bakewell to breed for the butcher rather than for the plough . |
| 30 | In addition , the police were well prepared , stimulated largely by implementing a plan designed more to cope with an emergency at the nearby Toronto International Airport than for the event in question . |