Example sentences of "than by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | because the work is more effectively carried out by a single-purpose organization rather than by a government department with a wide range of functions ; |
| 2 | Even if this shift is due to the availability of cheap labour power in other countries it is by no means obvious that socialists should support long-run protectionism : it may represent considerable progress for a ‘ Third World ’ worker to be exploited by capital in the production of labour-intensive commodities rather than by a landlord . |
| 3 | The interim government , a coalition of conservative parties , was bound more by common hostility to Bhutto than by a consensus on policy . |
| 4 | Rosenthal 's own research , and his review of other genetic studies , also leads him to argue that the high probability that identical twins will either both develop or both remain free of schizophrenia is explained by their identical genetic constitution , rather than by a tendency on the part of their friends , relatives and parents to behave towards each of them in a very similar way . |
| 5 | Here she was prompted less by social conscience than by a delight in drama . |
| 6 | There was no suggestion that consent could be revoked otherwise than by a court order . |
| 7 | Nor have we really explained our feeling for these sequences : why an order is more appropriately followed by a refusal than by a reassurance , for example . |
| 8 | It leads to division of labour ( between composer and performer , for example ) , individualism and specialization , and production for a market rather than by a community . |
| 9 | And should Mr Moon ever be encountered by chance in his wife 's company then he could not be acknowledged either , other than by a glance of mild regret when no one was looking . |
| 10 | The international economy consists of relations between these national entities and is shaped by them rather than by a world system which dominates and determines national conditions . |
| 11 | There was no way their commitment could be met other than by a sale . |
| 12 | In Book I , Chapter 3 , Section 3 of his A System of Logic ( written before he had decided that a quality is simply a sensation regarded in a certain relation ) he distinguishes between a sensation and a quality , a distinction which , he feels , may be missed because we can seldom refer to the sensation otherwise than by a circumlocution , for example , by reference to the quality , as when we call a sensation ‘ the sensation of white ’ . |
| 13 | Opposition to development from lower income groups is more likely to be motivated by anger at the focus on up-market housing than by a desire to preserve a golden past which they are well aware has never existed . |
| 14 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
| 15 | This is not an absolute rule : for example , it may be easier to construe as an offer a price list or catalogue issued by a manufacturer rather than by a wholesaler or retailer . |
| 16 | I sought to prove that , if an aerodrome or transport park was the objective of an operation , then the destruction of 50 aircraft or units of transport was more easily accomplished by a sub-unit of five men than by a force of 200 men . |
| 17 | A licence fee will cost about £10 and users will be charged for each unit of information rather than by the minute , although there will be no charge for customers linking into GSN . |
| 18 | The Court of Appeal was restricted by Criminal Appeal Act 1968 , s.11(3) which provided that the Court might not deal with an offender on appeal in a manner which resulted in him being dealt with more severely on appeal than by the court below . |
| 19 | There is in my judgment no objection to the decisions attacked in this case on the ground that they were or may have been taken by junior ministers rather than by the Secretary of State . |
| 20 | Corniglia is the hardest to reach as it , unlike all the others , is high up on the cliffs rather than by the sea . |
| 21 | With land improvements in the LFA until recently attracting 50% grants and drainage attracting either 60% or 70% of costs in the UK ( plus guidance premia for farmers with Development Plans ) , a higher proportion of land improvement costs overall has been borne by the state than by the farmer . |
| 22 | So the shock he felt now was fuelled more by the power of the deceit worked upon him than by the sex of the deceiver . |
| 23 | Here , rather than by the splashing , sunless cascade of the Gorges , is where to have your picnic , in a greenly Arcadian valley in the heart of the mountains . |
| 24 | All major decisions could be construed as ‘ better achieved by the Community than by the member states acting separately ’ . |
| 25 | The report is more interesting than by the member for South East Derbyshire er not that there 's much sex in it but if er er i it 's more interesting er sexual favours provided by B C C I officials to certain persons affiliated er with the firm . |
| 26 | If even attempts to improve the standard of estate management did not raise the level of the returns ( and the study of the Talbot Whitchurch estates suggests that these were more affected by the underlying economic conditions than by the standard of management ) , the only prospect for a lord was to seek some supplementary income beyond that of his estates . |
| 27 | Currently 8 per cent of the population has private health insurance , which is usually paid for by an employer rather than by the individual . |
| 28 | The debate on the Bill to bring back whipping was a thoroughly undignified affair in which the principles of the matter seemed to count less than considerations such as the size and weight of the flogging instrument to be used : calculations made necessary no less by the desire to limit the discretion of ‘ judges infected by maudlin sentimentality ’ , than by the requirement that it should measure up to the brutes who were ‘ so degraded , that they could only be deterred by forcible appeals to their fear of physical pain ’ . |
| 29 | ALTHOUGH I agree that many industries are run better by private enterprise than by the state , I think there should only be one bank . |
| 30 | Nowhere is this better exemplified than by the rape of Jackie Berkley by police officers at Moss Side police station , and the shooting of Cherry Groce in Brixton and Cynthia Jarrett in Tottenham during police raids on their homes . |