Example sentences of "[noun] than that they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far better that workers adopt an ‘ I ’ m all right Jack ’ mentality coupled with the chance to make a bit on the side than that they go on strike and make demands for higher wages in their main jobs . |
| 2 | Both these relationships are of course what might have been predicted a priori , in fact it is more surprising that they did not appear in the Groeger and Chapman study than that they do in this one . |
| 3 | For women it matters less whether they are referred to a gynaecologist or a urologist than that they are referred to someone with an interest in urinary incontinence . |
| 4 | Most homeless people are not ‘ social problems ’ in any other respect than that they need a roof over their head . |
| 5 | In the case of the exclusive language of traditional hymns , it is better that congregations be helped to respect and accept such hymns as coming from a former age than that they be either inappropriately altered or abandoned altogether . |
| 6 | Co-ordination , if it is to take place at all , is also most likely to be instigated by the clearinghouses ; but ideally it ought to take place between the library associations , if for no other reason than that they can provide financial support to arrange the necessary meetings of coordinating committees . |
| 7 | Almost all the harrowing experiences of indecision that can arise almost daily for conscientious parents , are like that for no other reason than that they , the parents , have not themselves been trained in the light of a reliable and respected source of guidance . |
| 8 | One government , anxious to steam-roller its programme through , scheduled five such Bills in a single motion , for no better reason than that they were likely to be vigorously opposed . |
| 9 | Fees in general were listed under land , in some cases perhaps for no better reason than that they were annual income . |
| 10 | It seems quite likely , since the ancient inhabitants of Crete and other Mediterranean islands wiped out the indigenous populations of elephants , pygmy hippos , giant dormice , and owls , for no better reason than that they needed to eat . |
| 11 | determination under a contract between two parties owes a duty of care to both those parties , because both will rely on him and him alone to get the determination right , if for no other reason than that they will be bound by it . |
| 12 | It 's astonishing how some formalities have stayed on , even through the mean and hungry 1980s , for no apparent reason than that they were always done , while in other areas of activity important people are treated with the utmost disdain — or worse , with complete new-fangled insincerity . |
| 13 | They would rather that you paid interest on your overdraft than that they paid interest on theirs . |
| 14 | There is more evidence that they are not mindless automata than that they are . |
| 15 | I do not claim any more for these criteria than that they raise at least the possibility of a belief being affirmable . |