Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adj] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His parents ' cultural and academic interests were reflected broadly in Victor 's later education , which showed a keen enthusiasm for languages other than English . |
| 2 | It excludes intermediate awards ( the Certificate and Diploma ) and those students who have extended the course for reasons other than failure ( Table 2.2 ) . |
| 3 | The courts will not take the incidence of future inflation into account in calculating the dependency , but if it is established that the deceased would have increased his income in the future for reasons other than inflation ( eg because he would have been promoted if he had remained in his job or because he would probably have attained higher and better paid skills or a better paid job if he had lived ) this might give grounds for increasing the multiplicand . |
| 4 | They also saw ethno-religious conflicts as ‘ more often the result of causes other than religion ’ . |
| 5 | Mr Lawson has frequently ruled out supporting the pound by means other than interest rates . |
| 6 | There are particular difficulties on the question of whether a covenant is purely personal or runs with the land where the obligation in question , whether on the part of the lessor , lessee , or third party guarantor , involves the payment of money other than rent . |
| 7 | This tends to leave their perception of their own teaching — both how they do it and how well they are doing — in a rather uncomfortable vacuum , especially if the staffroom ethos prohibits any kind of discussion other than crisis-management and grumbles about individual or whole-class ‘ personalities ’ . |
| 8 | CREB is able to bind to promoters that are induced by a variety of agents other than cAMP ( including Ca 2+ ( 8 , 9 ) and the adenovirus E1A protein ( 10 , 11 , 12 ) ) and is thought to activate a functionally diverse array of genes in response to elevated cAMP . |
| 9 | Before 1948 , the provision of hospitals was the responsibility of various statutory and voluntary bodies , with the result that their geographical distribution reflected a variety of factors other than need . |
| 10 | In the course of the last five thousand years a wide variety of stones other than jade have been highly esteemed for jewellery , insignia , seals and the embellishment of personal weapons . |
| 11 | Take , for instance , the case of languages other than English . |
| 12 | SHEAN DORL Gazing at one 's reflection for reasons other than vanity |
| 13 | Pollution , however , comes from a wide range of sources other than industry , such as domestic refuse and sewage , farming , mining , transport exhaust fumes and electricity generation . |
| 14 | Although English as a foreign/second language is a primary concern of many students , applied linguistic work in languages other than English is given every encouragement . |
| 15 | No work on fuels other than charcoal appears to be in progress . |
| 16 | Leaving kin aside ( and many are neighbours ) , Abrams pointed out that many modern neighbours have no basis for interdependence other than proximity . |
| 17 | Simply Duncan , when are we going to get in there and negotiate before we start losing membership for reasons other than redundancy ? |
| 18 | This is not necessarily a central problem , but the Kingman Report does recommend that pupils should understand something of the systematic nature of languages other than English . |
| 19 | Once one has recognised the importance of features other than pitch , it is necessary to devise a framework for categorising these features . |
| 20 | Furthermore , WIRS 's focus on matters other than employment practices means that information on certain useful contextual variables , particularly with respect to labour force structure and labour costs , was not available to test all the hypotheses the literature suggests . |
| 21 | ‘ IT IS a toss-up whether Norman Fowler was a bigger embarrassment to Group 4 than Group 4 was to Norman Fowler . |
| 22 | Instruction in languages other than Russian was prohibited . |
| 23 | Very few women left the trade before retiring age for reasons other than marriage , ill-health , or care of a relative . |
| 24 | The impact of factors other than entry qualifications will now be considered . |
| 25 | Moreover , as used in teaching machines or books , the method gave little scope for the use of senses other than sight , or of other media , or of the fruitful interaction between students and with teachers , which is the main justification of classroom teaching . |
| 26 | All film , video and television production is an example of the use of tools other than language to communicate to an audience . |
| 27 | Given that President George Bush was implacably opposed to abortion under circumstances other than rape , incest and maternal risk , the bill offered the prospect of forcing him to exercise a veto which would be unpopular among much of the electorate and among a significant portion of the Republican Party . |
| 28 | Koops then became interested in the long-standing problem of making paper from materials other than linen and cotton . |
| 29 | The similarity to Wagner 's account becomes more marked when we consider the application of concurrent interference theory to procedures other than flavour pre-exposure . |
| 30 | Very little direct information exists for quantifying the impact , if any , of agricultural change on habitats other than moorland and grasslands in upland areas . |