Example sentences of "for [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is evidence that this tactic had some effect in marginal seats and , indeed , made the overall result far better for Labour than it would have been had people not voted tactically . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I think this place is more suited for that than any island . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Guys like Stefan and Boris will be more pumped up for that than for a preparation tournament . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He holds the bat aloft for comfort , so that his eyes remain level and he concentrates feverishly , believing it a greater crime to be out for 30 than for nought . |
| 8 | He holds the bat aloft for comfort , so that his eyes remain level and he concentrates feverishly , believing it a greater crime to be out for 30 than for nought . |
| 9 | Discrimination between individuals consists in making it easier for some than for others to realize their ideals of the good . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Although a comprehensive study by Shaw ( 1969 ) has shown that increased boldness of print increases legibility for some readers , differences in typography were found to be considerably less significant for younger than for older readers with partial sight . |
| 15 | Reaction times to photographs of faces in a same-different task were reported to be faster for left than for right hemifield presentation by Geffen , Bradshaw and Wallace ( 1971 ) , Rizzolatti , Umilta and Berlucchi ( 1971 ) , Berlucchi , Brizzolara , Marzi , Rizzolatti and Umilta ( 1974 ) and St John ( 1981 ) . |
| 16 | Our question was whether it was easier for Protestant than for Catholic scholars to embrace the new system . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the election of October 1974 , the Labour party obtained a bare majority of seats for fewer than 40% of the votes cast . |
| 20 | Excise duty in most countries is lower for unleaded than 4-star , so some garages are allegedly buying lead free at a lower rate of tax and selling it on to customers as leaded . |
| 21 | IBM ESPANA ACHIEVED A BETTER OUTTURN FOR 1992 THAN MANY OF ITS SIBLINGS |
| 22 | I had hoped for better than this . |
| 23 | In an attempt to assess the differences in work by Women as contrasted to that by men , Rothenberg stated in an interview with Aupling , that ‘ if there was one factor that I think women artists allow for better than men , it is the rendering of the world , truely I think , as more various . |
| 24 | The importance of genetic factors in determining the occurrence of enuresis is generally higher for primary than secondary enuresis , which is what would be anticipated . |
| 25 | However , although addition errors occurred with a generally low frequency , they were considerably more frequent for closed than for open class items . |
| 26 | Continuous-process technology offers more scope for self-actualisation than machine and assembly-line technologies . |
| 27 | Sherwood Computer Services Plc has taken on 34 key staff previously employed by Premier Systems ( London ) Plc , which has ceased trading ; finance director Charles Taylor said Sherwood had known the Oracle house quite well before trouble hit , and would gaining expertise in open systems development , support and consultancy ; Premier specialised in systems for large City investment and financial customers ; the staff will be completely integrated into Sherwood 's London headquarters , forming a separate unit within it , and their skills will complement the September 1992 acquisition of Consort Data Ltd ( CI No 2,017 ) ; Leicester-based Consort does back office systems for smaller than average regional brokers , so Sherwood can now look after both ends of the market ; it is keen to win over Premier 's former customer base , and expects to sign a number of new contracts shortly ; the group is looking at buying Premier 's assets when a liquidator is appointed . |
| 28 | The relative importance of academic qualifications varied between categories , being more significant for non-manual than for manual workers . |
| 29 | ‘ We are afraid you are taking upon yourself the creation of a tool that has an even greater potential for evil than for good . |
| 30 | 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 . |