Example sentences of "for [adj] [noun sg] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would certainly suit the Jaguar management 's book and has less potential for political embarrassment than an unruly hostile bid . |
| 2 | In the prosecution of the war , the Left discovered far greater opportunities for political advance than any that had arisen from the anti-war struggles of the 1930s . |
| 3 | For example , Tenopir found that Georef assigns more subject headings for each publication than GeoArchive , and so has higher recall , but this does not mean that searches will produce more irrelevant items . |
| 4 | It was films depicting behaviour which seemed perverse or deviant which were seen as more suitable for private therapy than for public consumption , since the possibility of harm to at least a proportion of the wider public could not be ruled out . |
| 5 | She claims proudly that one news agency had more requests for that photograph than any other that year . |
| 6 | The current trend of pay and price increases is more than we had hoped , and it 's , it 's certainly more than er , than er , the planned increase in our income will cover , and I have to say that the rate of turnover of staff has reduced even further and so we will be spending more on staff for that reason than we had planned . |
| 7 | ‘ He does the journey three times a day and does more for that community than any amount of social workers , teachers or vicars , ’ enthused Mr Gregory . |
| 8 | Frankly , ‘ fuck ’ is a better word for sexual intercourse than any other . |
| 9 | But because the conception of the Certificate did not originate within the recognized schools examination boards , indeed had nothing to do with the DES , it is now thought of as suitable more for further education than for schools , and it seems to invoke all over again the old distinction between ‘ education ’ and ‘ training ’ . |
| 10 | Unfortunately for his thesis , women , who are normally thought to be more intuitive than men , have on average less spatial ability , while spatial ability is more important for scientific thinking than is verbal ability . |
| 11 | ‘ There could be worse role models for old age than Glastonbury . |
| 12 | The 1977–81 material is thought to be essentially complete , except for the exclusion of 12% who had a previous history of malignancy or had undergone gastric surgery or who were given the drug for another diagnosis than a peptic ulcer related disease . |
| 13 | This curious list , published in the Guardian last November , perhaps said more about Sister Wendy 's concern for poetic painterliness than about the state of women 's creativity , yet is does highlight the growing regard in which Roxy Walsh 's work is held . |
| 14 | Nesta Webster , however , who was a member of the grand council for three months in 1926 and 1927 , thought that the BF had done more for British patriotism than all the other middle-class organizations put together , and soon after leaving established a Patriots Enquiry Centre , a kind of Die-hard library where the ultra-right could study the socialist menace . |
| 15 | What better forum for conspicuous consumption than the locker-room or the golf club car-park ? |
| 16 | where you stand to gain very much more from a successful action for wrongful dismissal than you would from proceeding before an industrial tribunal , bearing in mind the ceiling on unfair dismissal compensation and the potential value of your contract if your notice entitlement is lengthy . |
| 17 | The words come easier from Porfiry who speaks for public justice than from Sonya on whom falls the main and mystic burden of creative , regenerative suffering . |
| 18 | However , this is more surely an argument for adequate preparation than for a refusal to appear . |
| 19 | Blue cheeses are used quite extensively in Italian cooking and Gorgonzola is much better for this purpose than the slightly sweeter Dolcelatte . |
| 20 | They are better for this purpose than the Home and End keys because they work even when the typing line containing the cursor is very short . |
| 21 | The truth is , however , that it was much more difficult to maintain interest and organisation in the country for this purpose than for British abolition and emancipation . |
| 22 | ‘ It may be suggested to customers that flour bags which can be washed and used again are better for this purpose than odd bits of paper , although an actual container is best of all . |
| 23 | Implicit in this last argument is another logical relation which is more interesting for this question than that between ought and is : the relation , that is to say , between ought and can . |
| 24 | Myles had more understanding and sympathy for this character than for all the others he had ever read about . |
| 25 | In the closing stages of the tournament I felt that the message had got through to the players about staying on their feet , and there were less penalties given for this offence than in the pool games . |
| 26 | There are smaller differences between countries for this variable than for the other dependents , and the overall significant correlations are reflected to some extent in all countries except Japan . |
| 27 | What more natural choice for this task than the heroes of the Hammer Quest ? |
| 28 | More were needed for this task than were ever recruited to work underground , and many Cornish youths who worked at the tin " stamps " as " buddle boys " never became adult miners . |
| 29 | The crisis-weary Poles are showing far less enthusiasm for this agreement than they would have in the heady days of 1980 . |
| 30 | You will also need scissors , which are more convenient for this job than a knife . |