Example sentences of "than that they " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They would rather that you paid interest on your overdraft than that they paid interest on theirs . |
| 5 | So something more must be said about beliefs , expectations , hopes , and so on , than that they are not extended , if they are adequately to be distinguished from these other non-extended phenomena . |
| 6 | talk of a ‘ changing moral climate ’ and point to legislative change that decriminalised certain forms of behaviour , but further than that they do not go . |
| 7 | The statement that the actions we ought to do are those which promote the general happiness would be useless if it meant nothing more than that they do promote it , and that something more can only be given by an intuition . |
| 8 | Fees in general were listed under land , in some cases perhaps for no better reason than that they were annual income . |
| 9 | But more than that they imply a specific theory about the genesis of social violence . |
| 10 | Erm if I want them quicker than that they cost more . |
| 11 | There is more evidence that they are not mindless automata than that they are . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Most homeless people are not ‘ social problems ’ in any other respect than that they need a roof over their head . |
| 15 | She deserved better than that they should grow into thugs , and they ultimately let her down by disappointing her dream of two perfect boys . |
| 16 | His connection with Mozart , which he seems to have exaggerated in later life , may have amounted to no more than that they were both Freemasons and involved with Schikaneder 's theatre company and that he played the role of a slave in The Magic Flute . |
| 17 | Finding that their efforts are doomed to failure , what more natural than that they should cause the company to execute a floating charge in their favour to secure the loans so that if anything is left , after the claims of the prior chargees are satisfied , they take it rather than the unsecured creditors ? |
| 18 | If it goes on any longer than that they get bored and spoil what they 've done . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is more remarkable that the religious houses survived so well than that they were faced with economic problems , and if they were sometimes regarded as grasping landlords , they had little option to be anything else . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I do not claim any more for these criteria than that they raise at least the possibility of a belief being affirmable . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . " |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Cos you can only use them up to about four I would think cos other , other than that they get a bit too big for them do n't they ? he could do with a little slide in the garden |
| 28 | They were true for this woman , but more important than that they 're true for you and they 're true for me today . |
| 29 | And then , erm it was at a much later stage , in the nineteen twenties or perhaps a little bit earlier than that they actually first managed to get enough of it to liquify . |