Example sentences of "for [det] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | The ‘ individualism ’ at issue here is , of course , enmeshed in bourgeois categories ; but , in its own way , it seems no more ‘ crippled ’ for that than the different but equally ‘ bourgeois ’ individualism of a Schoenberg . |
| 3 | ‘ I think this place is more suited for that than any island . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Guys like Stefan and Boris will be more pumped up for that than for a preparation tournament . ’ |
| 5 | Furthermore , if the members of the harmonie rustique were moving around the stage as part of the spectacle , it seems much less likely that they would have been changing instruments picking up a flute for one number , a bassoon for another than they might have done had they been playing from a pit . |
| 6 | Discrimination between individuals consists in making it easier for some than for others to realize their ideals of the good . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I think they can make a much more plausible case for this than the invasion of Grenada [ in 1983 ] or the Dominican Republic in the Sixties , ’ said an American university law professor , Mr Robert Goldman . |
| 9 | There is no doubt that conditions in these towns , particularly in the first half of the nineteenth century , were dreadful but Professor Hoskins seems more anxious to apportion blame for this than to explain why it happened , which is perhaps more important . |
| 10 | A more precise source for this than archaeology is the record of tax assessments , and more particularly the grants of tax relief which were made in the fifteenth-century reassessments . |
| 11 | However , it is common for fewer than twelve notes to be used over specific areas , or for certain notes to be repeated or used more than others , as long as the general non-tonal effect is maintained . |
| 12 | As announced on June 17 the offer to the general public was 3.2 times subscribed ; accordingly some of the shares allocated for institutional investors ( in part by tender ) and for overseas investors were " clawed back " to favour ( i ) customer applicants ; and ( ii ) other individuals who had applied for fewer than 1,000 shares . |
| 13 | In the election of October 1974 , the Labour party obtained a bare majority of seats for fewer than 40% of the votes cast . |
| 14 | It is characteristic of the novel that climate and vegetation should count for no less than its comedy of manners , in which the Jewish businessman Harry de Tunja plays an enjoyable part , and that neither of these two elements , so far as they can be distinguished from the rest of the novel , should count for less than the opinions which they help to convey . |
| 15 | Marion , a ripely handsome woman in her mid-thirties , who had played a season at Stratford-on-Avon and toured as Mrs Tanqueray , was extremely displeased at having to share Jessie , let alone a dressing-room , and particularly with a chit like Bunty ; but the Regent was small and naturally the two Star dressing-rooms , 1 and 2 , went to Salt and Pepper , that perennial and professionally married pair of comedy-thriller performers whose productions never ran for less than a year — a godsend in a profession where rehearse for three weeks , open and close in two was not unusual . |
| 16 | Prices will be announced at Motorfair , but as with Skoda and Lada you should be able to buy this Escort-size car for less than a Fiesta . |
| 17 | That does not mean plummeting house prices — the old adage about most people simply refusing to move rather than sell their house for less than they paid for it remains as true as ever . |
| 18 | One was a small café that sold pizza and chips for less than the small fortune we expected , and served by a girl friendlier than we could have hoped for . |
| 19 | The European common shrew , found throughout Britain but not in Ireland , lives for less than a year . |
| 20 | In other words , it is not only cheaper to buy the parent company 's shares , buying them gets you a share of the non-telecom activities for less than nothing . |
| 21 | In the latter half of the twentieth century , belief in Sandys ' nuclear philosophy counted for less than the political opportunity that it provided for ending National Service . |
| 22 | When Czechoslovakia 's quiet revolution came last November , reform communism was on the menu for less than a week . |
| 23 | Other costs seem equally hard to cut ( staff costs account for less than a third of the total ) . |
| 24 | If you can do business each week for less than the price of a TV licence , the government has a deal for you . |
| 25 | ‘ The delay has cost £20,000 and we can buy a gold door to replace it for less than that . ’ |
| 26 | Cabra , in which Bates has a stake of nearly 30 per cent , may settle for less than the £22.8 million if it takes into account other shareholders in its subsidiary company SB Properties , which owns the football ground . |
| 27 | After more than 16 hours of auctioning , every one of the 1,000 lots had found buyers , with none being sold for less than low estimate and many soaring to 10 times estimate . |
| 28 | The gangs are killing hobos for less than a dollar and I get 19 on my first try . |
| 29 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 30 | A relatively high proportion of those in other types of home were there for less than a month . |