Example sentences of "than [art] [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | We live in a century imprinted on the present , which regards the past as little more than the springboard from which we were launched on our way . |
| 2 | If trains on a branch line are cut then the railways may lose much more than the income from fares on the branch . |
| 3 | The distribution of titles , however , was very much in the interests of a king who was about to lead his nobility in war , and in any case the king intended to finance the war out of the proceeds of taxation rather than the income from royal estates . |
| 4 | So this example here we might find that that matches that matches we get a response of two from here and we get a response less than the response from here and the same response from this . |
| 5 | A minute more and she was certain she had walked further than the distance from the van to where Sniffy had called to her from the undergrowth . |
| 6 | A far greater problem than the journey from Rome to Verona and back was our plan to get married — which I was gradually getting used to . |
| 7 | Indeed for some the distance between their home and Plymouth is longer than the journey from London to Bristol . |
| 8 | A horse 's sweat is hypertonic ie it contains a higher concentration of salts than the plasma from which it is derived . |
| 9 | In Chapter 4 we recalled the well-established view that the British electorate came to rely more on television than the press from the late 1950s or early 1960s onwards . |
| 10 | In a very fast and expert manner the bottle would then be brought to an upright position , thus preventing very little more than the sediment from escaping . |
| 11 | This was the first time that the nuclear industry had admitted at a public inquiry that the electricity from one of its future reactors would be more expensive than the output from an equivalent coal-fired station . |
| 12 | Indeed , substitute child care might be worse than the situation from which the child has been removed . |
| 13 | Growth rate is related to the eventual shell-size , the young of large-sized enclaves showing a capability of growing faster than the progeny from smaller-sized enclaves * . |
| 14 | Wide-eyed as any of the cockpit 's meaningless dials , I flew over the most spectacular scenery , feeling nothing more than the pain from my broken wings . |
| 15 | The chief weakness of the House of Commons is in matters of taxation ; the way in which it has not been able to keep pace with administrative developments is that it has no method of collecting information ( other than the briefing from outside pressure groups already mentioned ) on the social and other side-effects of a tax or of examining possible future departures in taxation policy . |
| 16 | A nature poet who thought ‘ Earth hath not anything to show more fair ’ than the view from Westminster Bridge ? |
| 17 | Of course the environment is very much more simple and unpleasant than the environment from which you 've just come . |
| 18 | Sir : If one wants to understand the reasons for growing public concern about the police one need look no further than the letter from the Police Federation ( 28 September ) . |
| 19 | As Dr O'Brien has recently pointed out , in effect British governments between 1714 and 1815 constructed a revenue system from component parts which enabled them to increase tax revenues per head from Europe 's most rapidly growing population much more successfully than the French from the end of the eighteenth century , despite having been less heavily taxed up to then . |
| 20 | The target was demonstrably stronger than the signal from the 24-cm calibration sphere , and we tracked it for 68 seconds , in which time it seemed to dive from 69 m to 114 m ( a speed of0–8 m/s or just under 3 km/h ) . |
| 21 | For Perrier the sale of soft drinks have become vastly less important than the revenue from bottled water . |
| 22 | Since Gladstone 's day , governments have accepted that literacy , learning and literature are worth more than the revenue from a tax on the product . |
| 23 | It has been suggested ( 78 Law Notes 177 ) that it validates agreements for maintenance even if there is no other consideration for such agreement than the abstention from application to the court ; the words , |
| 24 | The transition from symbol to politician was to be far more protracted and painful than the transition from soldier to symbol had been in 1940 . |
| 25 | Well certainly examinations should only be carried out where er there is a benefit likely to accrue to the patient , and er this should always be greater than the risk from the radiation itself . |
| 26 | Only thirty-four had been to other secondary schools , scarcely more than the number from the second most popular public school , Harrow . |
| 27 | Applying this procedure to the data from this experiment would give a correlation of 0.16 , still rather lower than the figure from Watts and Quimby . |
| 28 | It landed less than a yard from my feet , still beating . ’ |
| 29 | A stone rolled free and splashed into the water no more than a yard from Trent 's feet . |
| 30 | He stood less than a yard from his victim , but she did not look up . |