Example sentences of "[noun] than [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be a more rational motive than murdering for a person ; less risk of subsequent disenchantment . ’ |
| 2 | In writing for others they will learn that writing for a public audience requires more care to be taken with the finished product than writing for oneself as an aid to memory . |
| 3 | if Frank can get some first team football in spain i guess he feels that it will be better for his career than waiting for a chance at leeds — a chance that much likely will not come up . |
| 4 | The orthodox view was that the megalith builders were just savages quite incapable of surveying or having any finer thoughts than grubbing for food and feuding with other tribes . |
| 5 | My cousin probably shares with me only one-sixteenth of my genes , so that to sacrifice myself for her would be an activity of less fitness than sacrificing for my sister . |