Example sentences of "than by " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a subtle critic may well save us a great deal of time , pain and trouble in the learning , for he can set us aright at the outset , and by his example rather than by his assertions show us how to avoid admiring that which is unworthy . |
| 2 | Because such religious orders are themselves controlled from Rome , Roman discipline is conveyed via a route other than by the bishops . |
| 3 | Just as the white-coated doctors in hospitals symbolize the clean and purifying nature of the healer , so the dark uniform of the police symbolizes not just the force identity , but also the presence of the avenger , who purifies through retribution rather than by cure . |
| 4 | Local authorities have a duty under Section 46 of the Public Health ( Control of Diseases ) Act 1984 , to arrange the burial or cremation of any person who has died in their area where it appears that no suitable arrangements can be made other than by the local authority . |
| 5 | Both were sponsored by the Metals sub-sector for specific categories of traffic , rather than by Railfreight Distribution for general Speedlink work . |
| 6 | Four out of the five Railfreight sub-sectors deal mainly with bulk traffic which travels by the trainload rather than by the individual wagonload . |
| 7 | Their task is nowhere better summed up than by Ernest Newman , one of the great music critics of his day , who rarely watched ballet until intrigued by the news that Massine was creating ballets to Tchaikovsky 's fifth Symphony ( Les Présages , London 1933 ) and to Brahms ' Fourth Symphony ( Choreartium , London 1933 ) . |
| 8 | These ideas are no better illustrated than by Massine in his The Three-Cornered Hat . |
| 9 | No better example can be given than by citing the careers of Tamara Karsavina and Margot Fonteyn , both of whom worked with many different choreographers as well as submitting themselves to the severely classical discipline of the older Petipa repertoire . |
| 10 | Wood can always be stained to a darker shade than its present state , but can not be lightened other than by bleaching . |
| 11 | One 's overall sense of The Possessed absolutely refuses to confirm any such duality , and one can pay the novel no simpler or fuller tribute than by saying so . |
| 12 | He remarks , ‘ the movement of a text by Derrida is directed less by the logic of an argument than by word play , free association , and an almost obsessive recurrence of a limited number of motifs . ’ |
| 13 | If its dramatic focus seems different , it is because Carlo Rizzi 's tempi are rather faster than those adopted by Clive Timms ; the action progresses less with inexorability than by abrupt shifts of mood . |
| 14 | Rumour and uncertainty abound , suggesting , this week , that pupils ' achievements will be measured by formal test rather than by their teachers ' assessment . |
| 15 | To give away much more of first-time director Bob Balaban 's plot would be a shame : sufficient to say that I was seriously put off meat and more cosily frightened than by any film since the original Halloween . |
| 16 | But ministers would almost certainly prefer such a ‘ green ’ tax , designed to limit planetary damage , to be introduced according to international agreements , rather than by Britain alone . |
| 17 | Earning money was rated more highly by students wanting to work in legal services than by the average student and London is selected by 59 per cent of them as the region they would most like to work in . |
| 18 | EVERYONE I have spoken to about the New Zealand tour of Wales agrees that , if they are going to be beaten by anyone , it will be by one of the clubs rather than by the national side . |
| 19 | Formal control within the police bureaucracy is therefore experienced by the RUC reserve as a tangible and omnipresent reality to a far greater extent than by regular police , which leads reserve police to have critical views of police management and some resentment towards the regulars , whom they feel ‘ get away with things ’ . |
| 20 | difficulties with after-sales service and other technical problems are more easily handled by a subsidiary than by an overseas head office and national agent ; |
| 21 | So if perceptions of party chances vary sharply with a succession of contradictory polls , it indicates that these perceptions are influenced by the published figures rather than by actual political preferences . |
| 22 | But surprisingly perhaps , it was not the major influence on David Steel 's image ; and David Owen 's image was influenced more by Labour partisanship than by Alliance partisanship : the hostility of Labour partisans towards Owen exceeded even the affection of Alliance partisans for him ( Table 8.3 ) . |
| 23 | Throughout NEP Russia remained plunged in a largely preindustrial society , conditioned far more by its natural environment ( of marshes , flax , large forests in Belorussia ) than by its few industrial cities . |
| 24 | Thatcherism was philosophy teaching by encroachment rather than by example . |
| 25 | He started to see that in his opinion more could be done for humanity by Churches than by political parties , even the best of political parties such as he took the Liberal Party to be ; or at least that the Churches engaged at a more profound level with the predicament of humanity . |
| 26 | Usually a priest matters more by what he is than by what he says . |
| 27 | The idea , indeed , was supported more by those on the fringes of political life than by those at the centre . |
| 28 | Government has gauged its success much more by the number of new investments , than by the efficiency with which existing investments are maintained and serviced . |
| 29 | In these societies marriages involve alliances between groups , often of a political character , and as such they are initiated and organized by the leaders of the groups concerned rather than by the future couple . |
| 30 | With some modification , this view , expressed in African Political Systems , is generally accepted , Recent research would broaden even further the category and also include systems where descent groups are linked one to another by marriage , rather than by believed common descent . |