Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] than for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps slightly easier for the writer than for the reader . |
| 2 | Immersion in water is less beneficial for the skin than for the woman , however . |
| 3 | However , these pauses were considerably longer for the philosophical section of the passage than for the description of the countryside . |
| 4 | ‘ However , I do think that they are a breed more for the connoisseur than for the average dog owner . ’ |
| 5 | Concurrent reading reduced the rate of tapping more for the right than for the left finger . |
| 6 | Moreover , although such villages were often described as ‘ model ’ , they were evidently built more for the lord than for the labourer . |
| 7 | This upper leftward node indicates a lesser propensity on the part of the reader to make the effort than for the two lower leftward nodes . |
| 8 | Thereafter , direct eye contact is intermittent ( 25 to 75 per cent of interaction time ) and is longer for the receiver than for the transmitter . |
| 9 | This is more a problem for the Archive than for the end-user . |
| 10 | ‘ Better for a horse than for a man , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee with relish . |
| 11 | In fact , even in the lower key , the tessitura of the part is much more comfortable for a countertenor than for a soprano . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For many of those who do take the text seriously however , Christian teaching on the subject of wealth is summed up either by one of the easily remembered phrases from the Gospels such as ‘ Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor , and you will have treasure in heaven ’ ( Luke 18:22 ) or ‘ You can not serve God and Mammon ’ ( Luke 16:13 ) or that ‘ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God ’ ( Luke 18:25 ) or by the way in which the members of the Jerusalem Church as recorded in Acts of the Apostles shared their wealth according to the principle ‘ From each according to his ability , to each according to his need ’ . |
| 14 | And he followed it up by that shrewd observation ‘ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God ’ ( Mark 10:25 ) . |