Example sentences of "than for the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Calculation of standard errors of sample statistics is generally more complicated for the sampling schemes described in this chapter than for the simple random sample . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ However , I do think that they are a breed more for the connoisseur than for the average dog owner . ’ |
4 | For example , John Fox and Peter Goldblatt ( 1982 ) have shown that after controlling for age , mortality in the 5 years following the 1971 Census for men aged 15 to 64 was greater for the highest social class , professional workers , who were living in the local authority sector , than for the lowest social class , unskilled manual workers , in the owner-occupied sector ( see figure 7.9 ) . |
5 | 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 ) . |
6 | For the full-time farmer the type of land assumed much greater importance than for the part-time farmer . |
7 | It 's more important for me , than for the Premier League , to get the right balance between cash and exposure . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | This factor serves to distinguish driving cases from those of deaths resulting from a single punch , and also to bolster the argument that the penalties for the former should be higher than for the latter . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Vegetius was important less for his technical advice than for the general philosophical message on the conduct of war which his work contained . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | My missionary vocation landed me with the task , the experience probably did more for me than for the fifty to one hundred loyal missionary supporters who attended . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | It is also a desirable one for the profoundly deaf young person and should be recognised for this positive value rather than for the negative one of its non-Englishness . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | In Australia the absence of population in the great central deserts ensured that the stations were built more for the benefit of the trains than for the nonexistent passengers and goods . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | More accurate perception of orientation was found for the left than for the right hand , at least among right handers ( Benton , Levin and Varney , 1973 ; Varney and Benton , 1975 ; Benton , Varney and Hamsher , 1978 ) . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | For farm workers the North–South divide continued , indeed it probably worsened , and countrywide averages are no more helpful than for the 1760 to 1790 period . |
25 | ( 1 ) In all the circumstances is it more appropriate that a court of the country to which a child has been wrongfully removed or in which it is being wrongfully retained ( country B ) ’ — in this case one can say England — ‘ should reach decisions and make orders with a view to its welfare or is it more appropriate that this should be done by a court of the country from which it was removed or to which its return has been wrongfully prevented ( [ Australia ] ) ? ( 2 ) If , but only if , the answer to the first question is that the court of [ England ] is the more appropriate court , should that court give any consideration whatsoever to what further orders should be made other than for the immediate return of the child to [ Australia ] and for ensuring its welfare pending the resumption or assumption of jurisdiction by the courts of that country ? |
26 | Then there appeared to be less common sources per unit volume of space for the nearby sources than for the distant ones . |
27 | Father Michael 's personal opinion was that if Mr Makepeace had a vocation it was more for Drury Lane than for the Anglican Church . |
28 | We found that it was cheaper for the four Europeans to travel to America than for the two Americans to come to London or Berlin . |
29 | This upper leftward node indicates a lesser propensity on the part of the reader to make the effort than for the two lower leftward nodes . |
30 | During assessment , it was more frequently the case ( approaching significance ) for the specialist team than for the other teams that more than one visit was made to the client . |