Example sentences of "[adv] than for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This effect was greater for subjects reading aloud than for silent reading and larger again for subjects who were led to expect a test on what they had read . |
| 2 | It is always a pleasure to go to Goldsmiths ' Hall , and never more so than for this event when the stately rooms provide the perfect background for contemporary work . |
| 3 | That school , like many of its contemporaries , was essentially a ‘ professionalizing ’ school preparing its better students for the more dignified occupations , rather than for higher education ( a development that was not to be fully realized until after 1945 and the expansion of the universities ) . |
| 4 | The Institute , now renamed the International Federation of Documentation , set out to design a standard international classification scheme primarily for documentation rather than for general library use . |
| 5 | It was further suggested that the principal value of the new statement might be for reference purposes rather than for wide circulation . |
| 6 | I shall start by considering in section 4.3 some variables which are characteristic of Belfast English , but which seem to function at a somewhat higher level of generality than those that we have mentioned so far — as identity markers for the community as a whole rather than for internal differentiation within it . |
| 7 | For the most part , however , these systems were of limited range , designed for the battlefield rather than for strategic use and more suitable for targets in Khuzestan than Tehran . |
| 8 | They will eventually be forced to adjust their attitudes towards regional security to allow for popular attitudes , rather than for Western preference , or face dangerous domestic unrest and a radical intensification of Islam and Arab nationalism . |
| 9 | To others it may seem like a recipe for disaster rather than for successful research . |
| 10 | The first-level supervision , known as the deputy , stood in a service rather than an executive relation , his responsibilities being for safety , maintenance of supplies , and shot-firing rather than for direct supervision . |
| 11 | Perhaps the most interesting Scottish bishop of his day , he was remembered for his scholarship and his good nature , rather than for any accomplishment . |
| 12 | To reduce the relationship between science and religion to one of conflict may also obscure the possibility that , when students of nature were persecuted by ecclesiastical authorities , it was for theological heresies rather than for scientific heterodoxy . |
| 13 | See also Derby and Co Ltd v Weldon ( No 8 ) [ 1990 ] 3 All ER 762. 2.3 Limited purpose of disclosure There is a large body of authority in support of the proposition that information which is disclosed for a limited purpose is received under an obligation of confidence and can not be used or disclosed otherwise than for that purpose . |
| 14 | A transfer of registered land made otherwise than for valuable consideration is subject to all minor interests ( see Land Registration Act 1925 , ss20(4) and 23(5) ) ; the taking of the express " beneficial owner " covenants gives the wife the additional protection that if in fact the property is subject to any claim or demand not previously revealed , not only would any right of action in respect thereof against the husband be better founded , but the implied covenant for further assurance ( implied in the beneficial owner covenants but not in the covenant as " trustee " ) will require the husband to execute and do all assurances and things necessary for further assuring the subject matter of the transfer . |