Example sentences of "than they [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one field of higher education where in some cases the fees from the overseas student are no higher than they are for British nationals . |
| 2 | Although many lone parents work , Table 4 shows that earnings from employment are less likely to be their main source of income than they are for two parent families although for both groups this will be affected by fluctuations in employment and unemployment . |
| 3 | So one reason why many women are less easily aroused in the morning may well be because social factors are more important for them than they are for men . |
| 4 | The feelings are no less intense for inspectors and headteachers than they are for students and teachers in their first appointment . |
| 5 | They are thus willing to pay several times more for the wealthy readers than they are for the less wealthy or poor . |
| 6 | The positive and negative externalities which have been identified thus far are likely to be rather different for research activities ( i.e. those concerned with the production of new information ) than they are for development activities ( i.e. those concerned with embodying new information into particular products ) , and they may change systematically over the life of any given collaborative programme . |
| 7 | A closer look at the DoNH budget reveals extraordinary disparities ; including the fact that they will , by 1995–96 , be giving more than 10 times as much to each of several central London museums than they are for all the national activities and programmes of the English Tourist Board . |
| 8 | Von Tunzelmann , remarking that prices had the greater influence on real wage trends over this period , finds that the indices available are much closer to each other than they are for the periods on either side . |
| 9 | ‘ Besides the property on Queen 's Drive , there are other busy roads in the city where dwellings are closer to traffic than they are for most of Queen 's Drive , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |