Example sentences of "for [adj] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more precise source for this than archaeology is the record of tax assessments , and more particularly the grants of tax relief which were made in the fifteenth-century reassessments . |
| 2 | Excise duty in most countries is lower for unleaded than 4-star , so some garages are allegedly buying lead free at a lower rate of tax and selling it on to customers as leaded . |
| 3 | Continuous-process technology offers more scope for self-actualisation than machine and assembly-line technologies . |
| 4 | Auction houses have an obligation to the vendor and are unlikely to allow anything to be sold for less than cost . |
| 5 | If your qualifications are not from the UK , or if you have studied in the UK for less than threee years by the start of the academic year for which you are applying , you are considered an overseas student for the purpose of entrance . |
| 6 | Minor or the trace constituents then are present in concentrations less than one part per million they obviously count for less than point one percent of the total salts They are useful as chemical tracers of particular waters . |
| 7 | And a number of other texts stress the fact that obedience counts for more than sacrifice ( e.g. 1 Samuel 15:22–23 ; Psalm 40:6–8 ) . |
| 8 | Despite the high hopes of Penal Policy in a Changing Society , recognizable authority in the shape of detection , arrest and prosecution still counted for more than prevention . |
| 9 | Firemen wearing breathing apparatus searched the buildings for more than hour But two youths , believed to have started the fire , had disappeared . |
| 10 | The seats are cushioned , and in the dark I am waiting for more than entertainment . |
| 11 | If the technology is used for more than word processing then lawyers will certainly need to be trained . |
| 12 | It confirms that breeding still counts for more than achievement . |
| 13 | Why had it never occurred to him to use it for more than carving ? |
| 14 | Left hand Pillar Crack , besides having a name redolent of times when tradition counted for more than imagination , is a superb little layback testpiece . |
| 15 | His portrait is n't in Perth 's exclusive Weld Club , where influence counts for more than cash . |
| 16 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 17 | When I started travelling extensively in trains ( 1966 ) , which tend to go faster for longer than bicycle , car or bus , I could think better . |
| 18 | The routes have been trodden by generation after generation of their kind , for longer than man can remember , with only the slightest variations . |
| 19 | The idea that an industry could leave behind a polluting aftermath for longer than civilization has been in existence has made the waste issue one of the strongest strands in the antinuclear case . |
| 20 | Therefore it does not look as though the explanation of the action clients ' failure to be supported at home for longer than control samples is due to their more problematic home care potential ( at least as far as the characteristics described above are concerned ) . |
| 21 | Benedict marry for other than money ? |
| 22 | Mixed institutions , the greater part of which were used for other than hospital purposes , were to remain with the local authority and would not be taken into the National Health Service . |
| 23 | The Law of Property Act 1925 provides the basis for forfeiture actions and for relief against forfeiture for both tenants and sub-tenants where the breach is for other than non-payment of rent : |
| 24 | As we have seen in Chapter I , most employment law rights are available only to people having a minimum of four weeks ' service , whilst protection against unfair dismissal for other than trade union activities , even with the law at its most liberal , required six months ' service . |