Example sentences of "than [prep] the case " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubtless some protestant paramilitaries — though there have been fewer religious persons among them than in the case of the provisionals — hold to similar religious understandings of the necessity of violence under certain circumstances . |
| 2 | I do this not only because the issues are easier to grasp in the case of perception than in the case of voluntary movement , but also because neurophysiologists of movement are less prone to wild claims than neurophysiologists of perception : most of the former would admit that we do not yet have the faintest idea how voluntary activity is able to utilize or over-ride reflex pathways ; how we mobilize so-called ‘ motor programmes ’ when we need them ; or even where in the nervous system voluntary movement is initiated . |
| 3 | The restrictions on that country 's course of action are therefore less powerful than in the case of the Japanese example above , and its future behaviour is less suited to accurate prediction . |
| 4 | Film can cruelly expose limitations , and nowhere more so than in the case of the gloomy Dane and the blue-eyed wonder . |
| 5 | ‘ Never has the saying ‘ a prophet is without honour in his own land ’ been more true than in the case of Thomas Crapper , ’ asserts Wallace Reyburn in his lively , informative eulogy to the unsung hero who invented the modern WC cistern . |
| 6 | Seldom has the conflict over what a river means to different people been more dramatically highlighted than in the case of the river Stour at Flatford Mill . |
| 7 | Never more so than in the case of those which are sick and injured , including wild animals . |
| 8 | Nowhere is this clearer than in the case of local economic policies . |
| 9 | However , the price for these advantages is that there are greater formalities in getting a company off the ground , and considerably more public scrutiny and accountability as a going concern than in the case of partnerships . |
| 10 | Since the same argument applies to in vitro fertilization by donor , which the Committee recommended should be available on a properly organized basis , the case against surrogacy continues as follows : ‘ Further the intrusion is worse than in the case of AID , since the contribution of the carrying mother is greater , more intimate and personal , than the contribution of a semen donor . |
| 11 | This is even more important in the case of homoeopathy than in the case of conventional medicine , because without an understanding of the different levels and aspects of the living being it is difficult to appreciate the differences in attitude between homoeopathy and the conventional approach . |
| 12 | Of course plenty of wooden steamships were built but the tendency was to turn to iron and steel earlier than in the case of sailing ships . |
| 13 | Perhaps even more than in the case of energising Anglican evangelical clergymen like William Marsh , in the ranks of evangelical nonconformity the powerful leadership of some ministers shaped the attitudes of chapel communities and led them into collaboration across denominational and church/chapel lines . |
| 14 | But measurement of the effect is even more difficult than in the case of education . |
| 15 | In the field of power station design , the conservatism of the headquarters engineers was more persistent than in the case of the Supergrid . |
| 16 | What the proposed Bill actually did , in fact , was to give the representatives of the law far greater scope for intervention in the conduct of homosexuals than in the case of other sexual activities . |
| 17 | As always with Mussorgsky , and never more so than in the case of this opera , the issues are complicated ; and though most of the work 's admirer 's would now agree that Shostakovich 's orchestration is closer to the spirit of a composer he deeply admired than that of Rimsky-Korsakov , whose admiration led him to wish to ‘ sell ’ the work in the West , there are reservations to be made . |
| 18 | It is clear from the decision that they would only be prepared to do this in clear cases of abuse of power and would impose a much higher standard than in the case of an exercise of statutory power . |
| 19 | No less than in the case of arts policy , the relation between English and public policy is a matter of cultural politics . |
| 20 | This approach has recently been subject to an effective critique by Forty ( 1986 ) , who points out that designers have always been handmaidens to the business interests they serve , and to separate them out as self-determined arbiters of cultural form is even less convincing than in the case of high art which strives for such autonomy . |
| 21 | It is desirable that the committal order be served as a matter of urgency although in a case which merited a sentence of six months ' imprisonment — and the contrary was not argued on M. 's behalf — there is much less urgency than in the case of a short sentence of imprisonment . |
| 22 | This is no less so in the case of the practical joker figured by Lord Roskill than in the case of one who makes the switch with dishonest intent . |
| 23 | This is clearly very much open to the critique based upon renegotiation-proofness , even more so than in the case without uncertainty . |
| 24 | Since the function of such a court is solely judicial and in no way administrative , the rule which precludes interest or bias on the part of the judge may be expected to be enforced more , rather than less , strictly than in the case of a licensing board , which is primarily an administrative body . |
| 25 | This difference between the two atmospheres is largely a result of the large internal heat source in Jupiter , far more ( per unit mass of planet ) than in the case of the Earth . |
| 26 | If the preceding birth interval is five ( in some cases even four ) years or longer , the chances of surviving infancy become poorer again , though considerably better than in the case of short spaced infants ( less than two years ) . |
| 27 | Here also it appears that sub-sales are taken into account more readily than in the case of non-delivery . |
| 28 | The first is the event horizon which is smaller than in the case of a non-rotating black hole ; the radius is where . |
| 29 | Even more than in the case of war , political sociologists have tended to neglect the more subtle , less blatant influences which affect political change . |
| 30 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |