Example sentences of "than from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an earlier chapter I noted that a study of poor people 's movements in the US concluded that such influence as they had was derived from mass protests rather than from participation in electoral politics ; and a study of the economic progress of black Americans in the late 1970s argued that it was ‘ under the impetus of the civil rights movement and the ghetto revolts of the sixties , [ that ] blacks gained access to new employment opportunities in business , government , the media , and high paying jobs in the skilled crafts ’ ( Smith , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | Air fares are the most expensive in the world ; for example it costs more to travel from Fiji to Papua New Guinea than from Fiji to Canada . |
| 3 | The Armenians were lucky , for they were the only people this century to flee to rather than from Lebanon for comfort and protection . |
| 4 | This is not because reactor accidents are more likely , but because the potential consequences for the general public of some reactor accidents are much greater than from accidents at other stages in the fuel cycle . |
| 5 | So while merchant prosperity was the reverse side of warrior impoverishment , the vested interests of merchants in the Bakufu- han structure meant that they had more to fear from change than from continuation of the system . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The inclusion of the former originated less from public concern over any alleged malpractice than from lack of confidence , felt mainly but not wholly within the legal profession , in procedures whereby ultimate responsibility for prosecuting as well as investigating in the vast majority of cases rested with the police . |
| 8 | The " healing " is therefore done between sufferers rather than from staff to patients and is the equivalent of the group insight and support that comes in the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 9 | I always preferred bank fishing Toftingall and invariably had better results than from fishing from the boat . |
| 10 | He did n't seem upset that it was empty and Trent had the feeling that , given the chance , the President would have poured himself another whisky and drunk it for something to do rather than from desire for alcohol . |
| 11 | We isolated enterobacteria , usually E coli , less frequently and in lower numbers from patients with newly diagnosed active colitis or active colitis on relapse than from patients with quiescent colitis . |
| 12 | Negative attitudes tend to spread more easily amongst individuals than from group to group because members of a group can argue more effectively amongst themselves than can an individual . |
| 13 | Now nation and people were linked in a nationalism constructed from a common inheritance rather than from opposition to potentially antagonistic nationalisms ( ibid. p 169 ) . |
| 14 | This results from the trade diversion effects ( see Chapter 1 ) of eliminating trade barriers within a subset of the world , rather than from use of the multilateral methods of the GATT . |
| 15 | The temporal processes that we shall examine , such as the changing structure of employment , may result more from international forces than from influences in the local environment , but they may change the map of the UK at regional , sub-regional or local scale . |