Example sentences of "than from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herzen believed that the reputation of the courts suffered more from the way in which they transacted their business than from the verdicts at which they arrived . |
| 2 | Yet his curiosity as to Jaq 's request seemed to proceed from reasonable concern rather than from the paranoia which often afflicted rulers . |
| 3 | Although Gilligan tries to combine humanist and experimental methods , her most quoted examples , Amy and Jake , come from a conventional experimental study of the psychology of moral reasoning , rather than from the self-concept or abortion decision interview research . |
| 4 | Rape and sexual assault may be regarded as sexually deviant when an individual gains the main pleasure and satisfaction from the act of sexual violation rather than from the coitus involved . |
| 5 | The efforts of the survivors , though prodigious enough , derive less from the sweat of the brow than from the exertions of the machines they direct from on high . |
| 6 | ‘ If you have this passion for pointing things out to people there could be no finer way of gratifying it than from the pulpit . ’ |
| 7 | Bell has a small but significant place in English architectural history , not only for the strength of his designs but also as an occasional architect coming , unusually , from the mercantile community rather than from the court or the gentry . |
| 8 | In the northern Weald , some of these men seem to have come from large Kentish estates round Tonbridge rather than from the Sussex coast ; there must have been several centuries of discussion before Wealden boundaries were finally sorted out . |
| 9 | Firstly , areas of functional competence are usually derived from the practical concerns of care givers rather than from the viewpoint of elders . |
| 10 | Higher than from the back staircase like Cardiff said . |
| 11 | You were n't more than from the hall you were about six foot to the door to the master bedroom . |
| 12 | With the symmetry of the rest of the geometry we can only assume this to be from choice rather than from the limitations of the designers ' technology . |
| 13 | The Doric temple became early popular in the western colonies and many more sets of archaic metopes are known from this area than from the homelands . |
| 14 | As from mid-July , interest will be charged from the date of purchase , rather than from the date of the account , for those cardholders who use the credit facility . |
| 15 | In addition , the Secretary of State has recently made an announcement on the decision to bring the high-speed link in from the east via Stratford rather than from the south . |
| 16 | The geysers and mud pools of Rotorua are more striking seen from ground level than from the air , but the great geyser still looks impressive from 1,500 feet . |
| 17 | As for the Liberal/SDP Alliance , it appears to draw its support fairly evenly from the different classes ( Table 5.5 ) , from different parts of the country ( though marginally more from the South than from the North and Scotland ) , and from owner-occupiers as well as council-house tenants ( Table 5.7 ) . |
| 18 | It has been argued that , as newly privatised companies will be responsible for obtaining their investment from the market rather than from the government , the PSBR will fall . |
| 19 | A report in Nezavisimaya gazeta of April 21 noted that Dudayev appeared to be hoping for support and recognition from the Islamic countries , rather than from the West , which recently had been heavily criticized in his speeches . |
| 20 | Luz is green less from the rain — it is actually one of the drier valleys in the High Pyrenees — than from the water it gets from the mountains all around , from the lakes , the glaciers and the seasonal ‘ melt ’ . |
| 21 | Criteria for doing this are developed from the professional knowledge , value base and experience of the practitioner rather than from the policies and constraints of organisations . |
| 22 | Amendments made : No. 62 , in page , 47 line , 43 , at end insert — ( ) The terms and conditions on which the Secretary of State may make any grants under this paragraph may include in particular conditions — ( a ) enabling him to require the repayment , in whole or in part , of sums paid by him if any other condition subject to which the sums were paid is not complied with ; and ( b ) requiring the payment of interest in respect of any period during which a sum due to him in accordance with any other condition remains unpaid , but shall not relate to the application by the college council to which the grant is made of any sums derived otherwise than from the Secretary of State . ' . |
| 23 | but I had n't yet realized that the answers had to come from me rather than from the therapist . |
| 24 | I appeal to the Minister to give at least some consideration to how far the environmental statement should come from a neutral source rather than from the promoters . |
| 25 | Anselm was to learn too late that a landowner had more to fear from grasping tenants beneath him than from the king above . |
| 26 | His response underlines how much more royalist than the king were some of his judges and how the dividing line between church and crown jurisdiction was under more pressure from the king 's subjects and agents than from the king himself or from any royal policy . |
| 27 | It is basically the function of the designer to protect the client 's interest and ensure that the food service planning is carried out from a food service operator 's point of view , rather than from the architect 's or interior designer 's point of view . |
| 28 | Did the new scheme come from the philosophy of government 's financial managers to save money rather than from the YTP providers themselves ? |
| 29 | So , " parties do make a difference in the way Britain is governed … [ but ] the differences in office between one party and another are less likely to arise from contrasting intentions than from the exigencies of government " . |
| 30 | Thus placemen tended to take their cue from party chieftains rather than from the sovereign or Court , and when a party fell from power there usually followed a purge of its placemen . |