Example sentences of "than for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The relative risk of an overweight baby becoming an overweight 5-year-old is about two and a half times more than for a normal weight baby . |
2 | David Boole of Jaguar Cars describes the medium-term as healthier than for a long time' . ’ |
3 | But it has been a rough 18 months for him and there is still a gauntness about him , even if he does claim he has never felt fitter and that his swing is closer to being ‘ on track ’ than for a long time . |
4 | As general wisdom , these are likely to be higher with free-standing contracts than for a collective AVC scheme offered by an employer . |
5 | It looked more suitable for a multinational corporation than for a great Department of State . |
6 | However , if we had a matrix of order 100 , it would have 9900 off-diagonal elements , and we can only say that at each stage the sum of the squares of these elements would decrease by 1/4950 at least ; convergence to diagonal form is likely to take very much longer than for a small matrix . |
7 | 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 ’ . |
8 | 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 ) . |
9 | For the mass of ‘ non-organized ’ Germans , the ‘ Hitler myth ’ functioned through the stimulation of popular acclaim — recurrent but always temporary — fur faits accomplis , for coups which had been brought about , successes already attained , rather than for a clear set of policies in train . |
10 | On the other hand , tasks of party management and maintaining Cabinet cohesion are more insistent , though perhaps less so than for a German Chancellor or Italian Premier . |
11 | The sea , too , was considered good for health and the fashion for sea bathing was originally for health reasons rather than for a jolly seaside holiday . |
12 | Socialism , however , had been repudiated at the polls even more decisively than Protection , and there seemed to be a stronger case for an anti-socialist coalition composed of the Conservative and Liberal Parties than for a Free Trade one . |
13 | Experience to date has shown that dates for Proofs under the Optional Procedure are allocated much quicker than for an ordinary action . |
14 | The real difficulty for insurers is that settlement of a claim for provisional damages is significantly more difficult than for an ordinary action . |
15 | 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 . ’ |
16 | The point they are making is that , for the most part , people still vote more for political parties in Britain than for the individual candidate . |
17 | ‘ However , I do think that they are a breed more for the connoisseur than for the average dog owner . ’ |
18 | 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 ) . |
19 | For the full-time farmer the type of land assumed much greater importance than for the part-time farmer . |
20 | It 's more important for me , than for the Premier League , to get the right balance between cash and exposure . |
21 | This is to be expected , and it is reasonable for the vendor to request that the receivers of confidential information enter into such agreements , confirming that they will make no use of it other than for the specific purpose of evaluating the proposed buy-out . |
22 | The transistor bridge bipolar drive circuit requires four transistor/diode pairs per phase , whereas the simple unipolar drive requires only one pair per phase , so drive costs for a hybrid stepping motor are potentially higher than for the variable-reluctance type ; a two-phase hybrid motor drive has eight transistors and diodes , but a three-phase variable-reluctance motor drive has only three transistors and diodes . |
23 | There is no more evidence for these suggestions , however , than for the possible suggestion that the office was largely honorary and created ad hominem for Molla Fenari , perhaps as an inducement to return from Karaman or as an additional honour when he did return . |
24 | Table 9 and Table 10 show that RFA is significantly greater for males than for the general population and from Table 8 that RFA is greater than for females . |
25 | Overall , it seems fair to conclude that the right hemisphere does possess some word processing capacity , probably more so for the written than for the spoken word , for concrete or early-learned rather than abstract or later-learned words and for receptive rather than executive aspects of language . |
26 | Their hatred for each other was even greater than for the capitalist enemy , and they were constantly locked in internecine warfare in which they accused each other.of a battery of heinous crimes . |
27 | The homo sequences consist of an arrangement of repeating units that pack efficiently ( large negative ΔH ) and tightly ( large negative entropy ) in a regular array , such that melting occurs in a cooperative fashion with a large ΔS and a sharper melting transition than for the mixed sequence oligomers . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | The term y must be positive , and so the no-arbitrage price for futures on a geometric index is lower than for the corresponding arithmetic index . |
30 | When either 2 or 6 words had also to be held in memory then reaction times for both hemispheres improved but more so for the left hemisphere than for the right hemisphere , leading to a RVF superiority . |