Example sentences of "[noun sg] than for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Better for a horse than for a man , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee with relish . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh my boy , my boy , home at last ! ’ cried Mrs Clare , who at that moment cared no more for Angel 's lack of religion than for the dust on his clothes . |
| 3 | Is it any better to act for the National Rifle Association than for the Cote d'Azur Development Agency , to take one name from his appendix ? |
| 4 | Calculation of standard errors of sample statistics is generally more complicated for the sampling schemes described in this chapter than for the simple random sample . |
| 5 | However , this is more surely an argument for adequate preparation than for a refusal to appear . |
| 6 | Immersion in water is less beneficial for the skin than for the woman , however . |
| 7 | Such discounts can mean the price is many times lower for the branded drug than for the generic drug and consultants may be unaware of the price in the community . |
| 8 | It is perhaps slightly easier for the writer than for the reader . |
| 9 | It is easier for a husband to be found for a thin , and therefore supposedly beautiful , girl than for a plump one . |
| 10 | However , these pauses were considerably longer for the philosophical section of the passage than for the description of the countryside . |
| 11 | The Central Asian nationalities were the most resistant to russification in this as in other respects : no more than 3 per cent of any of the five major nationalities concerned claimed Russian as a native language in the 1989 census , a much lower proportion than for the non-Russian population as a whole , and levels of fluency in Russian were also much lower than among minority nationalities elsewhere in the USSR . |
| 12 | In fact , even in the lower key , the tessitura of the part is much more comfortable for a countertenor than for a soprano . |
| 13 | Entropies of stacking are much more adverse for the GC stack than for the AU , such that the difference in free energy of stacking between the two types of interactions is only 11.4 kJ mol -1 despite the much larger difference in exothermicity . |
| 14 | However , Randall ( with more concern for principled commercial independence than for the economic logic of external benefits ) refused to ask for such a subvention from central reserve funds for his London Board ( which carried the greatest burden of standardisation expenditure ) . |
| 15 | Fleury was beside himself with distress , but more for Louise 's sake than for the Doctor 's ( he had privately come to consider his prospective father-in-law as an opinionated old fool ) . |
| 16 | ‘ However , I do think that they are a breed more for the connoisseur than for the average dog owner . ’ |
| 17 | Re-entry into the labour force after child-rearing was less usual for the older group than for the younger ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) and therefore fewer would have had pensionable paid employment in the years before retirement . |
| 18 | For the full-time farmer the type of land assumed much greater importance than for the part-time farmer . |
| 19 | During assessment , it was more frequently the case ( approaching significance ) for the specialist team than for the other teams that more than one visit was made to the client . |
| 20 | It might have been better at Vladimir for Holly than for the zeks herded into the communal cell blocks , but he had learned to eat what food was provided . |
| 21 | For both the buyer and the seller this tends to make sense , since it is more efficient for the seller to insure against the risk under an insurance policy covering the risk of damage to goods in transit than for the buyer to cover the goods under an all risks policy relating to his moveable property . |
| 22 | Concurrent reading reduced the rate of tapping more for the right than for the left finger . |
| 23 | He has cared deeply that his contemporaries and juniors should write well ; he has cared less for his personal achievement than for the life of letters and art . |
| 24 | But if it looks vindictive — more a battle for Saddam 's head than for the liberation of Kuwait — public opinion in the West could soon turn . |
| 25 | The risk of infection and disease is greater for an old person than for a normal , healthy adult , as warnings on food safety show . |
| 26 | It looked more suitable for a multinational corporation than for a great Department of State . |
| 27 | Is the experience of higher education more or less rewarding , for example , for a female physics student than for a female English student ? |
| 28 | Reaching 50 caused Claire Gallois to turn against this way of conducting things and against the world in which ageing is much more cruel for a woman than for a man . |
| 29 | Easier , he says , for a zonal defender like himself to switch to a marking game than for an Italian marker to change to zonal defence , ‘ because a zoner is all positional play . ’ |
| 30 | Moreover , although such villages were often described as ‘ model ’ , they were evidently built more for the lord than for the labourer . |