Example sentences of "[noun] than from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the light had been turned out again , slowly , inch by inch , Charlie continued his crab-like advance , now more fearful of a stray bullet from his own side than from the enemy 's . |
| 2 | He thanked her for coming and saw her off the premises , but he was left wondering at her distress which seemed to arise more from fear than from grief . |
| 3 | Believing their children will receive a better and more disciplined education , with a greater prospect of university entry than from a state school , many parents who can afford it send their children to such private institutions , known ( confusingly ) as " public schools . " |
| 4 | About 130 ad Papias of Hierapolis in Asia Minor recorded traditions about the authorship of the gospels of Matthew and Mark , but also knew a story about Jesus found in the non-canonical ‘ Gospel according to the Hebrews ’ and was quite convinced that the mind of Jesus was captured less from written books than from the oral teaching of those seniors who had known apostles personally . |
| 5 | The Lord Chancellor began with the complacent and highly debatable observation that ‘ we are likely … to get a better assessment of the qualities of some eminent judge of the past through an existing member of the judiciary than from anyone else ’ . |
| 6 | It was 1859 before Alexander gave reformers their head by granting them control of the Editing Commissions , and by then the prestige of the throne would have suffered far more from the abandonment of emancipation than from allowing a version of it to go through . |
| 7 | These total only about 13,000 altogether , and the threat to their job is probably greater from rapidly advancing automation than from the decline in the market that can be expected from an advertising ban , whose effects will be felt only gradually . |
| 8 | Already more children may be dying with AIDS than from famine and 11 million are carrying the virus HIV , 1 in 250 of all adults worldwide . |
| 9 | Another bonus is that the lower vantage point from the tops of these smaller hills , often with uncluttered surroundings , can occasionally provide more impressive views than from their big brothers . |
| 10 | Meals that last longer than twenty minutes indicate that the child is gaining more from the parent interaction than from the food . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , most people still find it harder to get compensation from drug firms for errant products than from almost any other type of manufacturer . |
| 12 | In future , the danger of extreme-right policies is more likely to come from within the victorious mainstream conservative ranks than from outside . |
| 13 | There are better returns available from wider range investments than from narrow range investments , and better returns without unnecessarily increasing our risks . |
| 14 | The old master-spy , William Casey , was said , not least by North , to have masterminded both the Iran and contra operations , and that may well be true of the broad canvas ; but the marks are those of an enthusiastic amateur in espionage , a man who had learnt his craft of secret agent more from the cinema than from the CIA handbook . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Men do n't usually take much part in these things , ’ she added , more from experience than from cynicism . |
| 18 | More recently it has been recognised that students will benefit more from the provision of good quality language support than from long periods spent learning English in ESL courses and this has led to a shift in resources towards the mainstream classroom . |
| 19 | One student will gain more from one method of teaching than from another . |
| 20 | Beethoven learnt more from Haydn than from anyone , and all that he had made his own from that study is put to fascinating use here ; but the music is no reversion , and has its own lightness and gaiety . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Far more hoards have survived from both these relatively short periods than from the immediately preceding or succeeding periods . |
| 23 | In that time we managed to talk to many broadcasters , primarily European ( which reflects where we see our main market potential and the fact that MIPCOM did seem to have greater numbers of European broadcasters than from any other significant territory ) . |
| 24 | Hyacinth came with them , more for company and the irrefutable excuse to avoid work than from any religious inclination . |
| 25 | On March 14 the federal Health Department had released figures showing that more American teenage males died as result of gunshot wounds than from all natural causes combined . |
| 26 | We have more archaic sculpture from Athens than from anywhere else . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If , as my hon. Friend suggests , there is cheaper electricity to be obtained from coal-fired power stations than from gas-fired power stations , I would expect them to use the electricity from coal-fired stations , in accordance with their licence obligations . |
| 30 | 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 . |