Example sentences of "than from [noun] " 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 | They also do receive a significant proportion of their income from the sale of goods and services rather than from taxes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I am more concerned with what bodies fell like than how they look , and I like to draw ‘ from the inside ’ rather than from models , mirrors or photographs . |
| 6 | Departures other than from Dover carry a supplement . |
| 7 | A few of the imported cattle were shipped wig-Holstein ( on the Jutland peninsula ) , which has never been a part of the Netherlands , rather than from Friesland or North or South Holland like the majority of the exported black-and-whites , and the Americans named their Dutch cattle ‘ Holsteins ’ almost by mistake , though for half a century from 1852 95 per cent of the black-and-whites imported into North America came from the Netherlands . |
| 8 | The next phase of Haslam 's career was one where he moved about from company to company rather than from function to function . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | The challenge to Swahili came less from local African languages than from English . |
| 12 | ( As we pointed out in Chapter 1 , both kinds of error frequently arise from performance limitations of the speaker rather than from competence limitations . ) |
| 13 | Within the cluster of sites 2-4 cleavage at position 77 reappears earlier than any of the lower bands suggesting that dissociation from site 4 is faster than from site 2 ( site 3 is occluded as described above ) ; i.e. actinomycin dissociates from CGCG faster than from AGCG . |
| 14 | It is sometimes implied that all this changed when that shrewd lawyer , John XXII , became pope , yet he readily promoted a number of Edward 's episcopal candidates ; moreover , from John , no less than from Clement , Edward II received the bounty of papal taxation of the clergy . |
| 15 | Air fares are the most expensive in the world ; for example it costs more to travel from Fiji to Papua New Guinea than from Fiji to Canada . |
| 16 | Alix drove on to the staff car park , as Technicolor Viennese figures in ball gowns , wearing ruby pendants , flowered corsages , turned in her mind , in a scene that derived less from Vienna ( where she had never been ) than from Tolstoy 's descriptions of balls in War and Peace . |
| 17 | The Armenians were lucky , for they were the only people this century to flee to rather than from Lebanon for comfort and protection . |
| 18 | These results are compared in Fig. 3.13C , where it is apparent that incisor loss occurs more readily from premaxillae than from mandibles , but the rank order in which loss occurs is similar . |
| 19 | This is not because reactor accidents are more likely , but because the potential consequences for the general public of some reactor accidents are much greater than from accidents at other stages in the fuel cycle . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The bridge , which appears much wider from inside than from Priestgate , includes other smaller units and a kiosk as well as a pedestrian walkway linking the two sections of the Cornmill . |
| 22 | The words come easier from Porfiry who speaks for public justice than from Sonya on whom falls the main and mystic burden of creative , regenerative suffering . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe she is alive , ’ said Wexford , more from a mischievous desire to throw a spanner in the works than from conviction . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Nowt can change that ; and when it comes from t'family that a man 'as reared and cared for , it 's far worse than from others . ’ |
| 27 | Mr G. Dear , who was at school with Richard , told me : ‘ We learnt more in class from his talking above and beyond the subject matter than from others who stuck to the syllabuses … it was an honour to be selected for the annual school play … ‘ |
| 28 | Probably more so in fact , for all organisms are more seriously threatened by competition from their own species than from others . |
| 29 | In case of a dispute , a tribunal of arbitrators will be created from senior EC lawyers ( other than from Spain ) or from Canada or the US . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , it 's never been one of my favourite words , mainly because it emerged from a marketing concept more than from musicians . |