Example sentences of "than [det] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through their attack upon the social revolution , their politicization of the armed forces , their intolerance of opposition , and , most of all , their extensive use of brutal secret police methods via the SIM ( Military Investigation Service ) , they helped to convince many inhabitants of the Republican zone that fascist oppression could be little worse than that under which they were already living . |
| 2 | This means the time they spend in the public sector is often much less than that for which they are contracted . |
| 3 | Note , too , that this size is marginally smaller than that for which you were asked to quote . |
| 4 | It has to be said that it is an austere document which , although well designed and printed , offers little more than that for which it was intended . |
| 5 | Where the process is used for some purpose other than that for which it is intended , the distinction between an error of judgment and an abuse of process may be rather fine . |
| 6 | Into this imaginary world of people unable to learn from their market experience let us now introduce a group of outsiders who are themselves neither would-by sellers nor would-be buyers , but who are able to perceive opportunities for entrepreneurial profits ; that is , they are able to see where a good can be sold at a price higher than that for which it can be bought . |
| 7 | Since April 1991 , banks and building societies have deducted basic rate tax from interest , but savers can reclaim tax if it is more than that to which they are liable if , say , they have unused personal allowances . |
| 8 | The first is that while most of the fast movements are much as one might have surmised ( although the vite sections of the last movement of the Te Deum are notably faster than often performed ) , some of the slow movements are considerably slower than one usually hears them , suggesting a rather wider range of tempos in use in the early 18th century in France than that to which we are accustomed today . |
| 9 | In Dew v. Parsons , 2 B. & Ald. 562 a sheriff demanded a fee for the issue of a warrant which was larger than that to which he was in law entitled , and received payment from an attorney who was in ignorance of the law . |
| 10 | The land was waste or forage land not used for any purpose other than that to which it was put by the plaintiffs . |
| 11 | Furthermore it was , in my judgment , erroneous on two other substantial grounds , only slightly less fundamental than that to which I have just adverted . |
| 12 | The ‘ pure ’ entrepreneur observes the opportunity to sell something at a price higher than that at which he can buy it . |
| 13 | There is , however , separate evidence which shows that the Jovian interior is indeed hot , namely , that Jupiter radiates energy to space at a greater rate than that at which it absorbs energy from the Sun . |
| 14 | Jesus Christ several times appeared to her with a sweet and gracious countenance , saying to her to rouse her courage , ‘ remember my love , that the bed of the cross on which I died for love of you was harder , narrower and more painful than that on which you are now lying' ’ . |
| 15 | Had he been , or was he about to be , briefed for a mission earlier than that on which he actually set out ? |
| 16 | Either the landlord or the tenant may be entitled to determine a term certain at a date earlier than that on which it would otherwise expire by effluxion of time . |
| 17 | I should recommend waiting for a gentler age than that in which we are condemned for a while to dwell . |
| 18 | And I can see no other way of proceeding than that in which we proposed at the moment . |
| 19 | Generally , arrests are not made by such squads for conduct that is deemed less serious than that in which they are mainly interested . |
| 20 | ( University of Edinburgh , Department of Molecular Biology ) Details of a scheme to help students find good PhD projects in departments other than that in which they took their first degrees . |
| 21 | ( 4 ) You may use the premises for the sole purpose of … ( 5 ) You will keep the premises clean and tidy and will leave them in no worse condition than that in which they are at the date of this letter and free from rubbish . |
| 22 | ‘ ( 2 ) A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform any function he — ( a ) alters or erases the program or data ; ( b ) copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held ; ( c ) uses it ; or ( d ) has it output from the computer in which it is held ( whether by having it displayed or in any other manner ) ; and references to access to a program or data ( and to an intent to secure such access ) shall be read accordingly . |
| 23 | Scott , it declared , ‘ wants a tight rein , and we hope to see it in Lord Palmerston 's hand ’ , but he should resign rather than undertake work in any other than that in which he has distinguished himself . |
| 24 | The debtor may apply for an order that the money , if payable in one sum , be paid at a later date than that by which it is due or by instalments , or , if the money is already payable by instalments , that it be paid by smaller instalments . |
| 25 | One reason , evident in Europe and also important in the United States , is that for some of the underclass life in the cities , although insecure , ill-rewarded and otherwise primitive , still remains , if tenuously , better than that from which they escaped . |
| 26 | Taking into account both the virtual disappearance of explicit commissions and the shrinking of spreads , it is evident that dealing costs , for the most part , are now appreciably less than half of what they were prior to the reforms of October 1986 . |
| 27 | The world price of tin collapsed in 1985 , plummeting to less than half of what it costs Bolivia to mine it . |
| 28 | any Community proposal which would lead to significant changes in UK law , or have far-reaching implications for areas of UK law other than those to which it is immediately directed ; |
| 29 | In other words , different legal arenas are not entirely severed from each other , and political movements such as the peace movement will have to bear in mind the impact of its legal activities on legal arenas other than those with which it is immediately engaged : for example , does the encouragement of judicial activism by the peace movement , or an invitation to adjudication based on natural law , open floodgates which — although they produce desirable results in the short term — one would in the long term prefer to remain shut ? |
| 30 | Freedom , we now notice , is not always a higher ideal than those with which it competes , nor is rationality necessarily just a matter of self-interest . |