Example sentences of "than from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This chapter will examine the rules of competition from the competitors ' point of view , rather than from the referees ' . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The City put the shares up 4p to 565p , but that seems to have been largely on the basis of the optimistic tone of the statement and the general state of the market than from any in-depth analysis of the figures . |
| 5 | Surely the Pharisees themselves should be judged , if not charitably , at least fairly : from their own literature ( which the Jewish and Christian scholars referred to above have taken the trouble to study ) rather than from the taunts of their opponents . |
| 6 | However , according to locals , there is actually more of a risk from the conventional pollutants that are pumped into the sea than from the power station , and this stopped people swimming in it . |
| 7 | In any case , her main ideological inspiration , like that of Lloyd George , came from people rather than from books . |
| 8 | ‘ I learned from him , more vividly than from anyone else , that the study of the New Testament is an exciting adventure , and that while it calls for a rigorous-critical discipline , it is not made less scientific if the student brings to it his own experience of faith . ’ |
| 9 | The next phase of Haslam 's career was one where he moved about from company to company rather than from function to function . |
| 10 | ‘ Maybe she is alive , ’ said Wexford , more from a mischievous desire to throw a spanner in the works than from conviction . |
| 11 | Fourthly , he would pick up ideas from the avant-garde of poetry , or of jazz , rather than from the living old masters of the classic school of Paris . |
| 12 | DIXONS , the electrical retailer , was yesterday accused of beefing up its results through £31million undisclosed profits from property sales , and of making more from insurance and credit deals than from selling goods . |
| 13 | Also , I often feel I gain from venomously critical views of me as an artist , more than from dithery , sloppily fawning , supportive views . ’ |
| 14 | By 1957 , it had become clear that it was easier to direct affairs on the far side of the Arab sea/air barrier from London rather than from Cyprus , which had little or no contact with Aden and Kenya . |
| 15 | There is no better way of buying cheese than from a specialist cheese shop , where you will be encouraged to taste before buying and the retailer will be knowledgeable , friendly and , above all , enthusiastic about his stock . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , mean concentrations of DDT and related compounds were up to seven times higher in the blubber of male common dolphins from the southern California area than from any species sampled elsewhere in the Pacific , including Japan . |
| 17 | Any decent reform of this nonsense has to start with a firm recognition that it is better to take money from taxpayers than from consumers . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , most people still find it harder to get compensation from drug firms for errant products than from almost any other type of manufacturer . |
| 19 | Inheritance tax is payable on property which passes on a death , other than from a husband to a wife or vice versa . |
| 20 | And it might even be said that it is from this , far more than from early Christianity , that we have inherited our sense of the dubious physical nature of the female , and our idea that the human norm is male and that to be female is in itself a pathological state . |
| 21 | However , iron is far less readily absorbed from these plant sources than from animal sources . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Far more hoards have survived from both these relatively short periods than from the immediately preceding or succeeding periods . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The police , for reasons of economy of control rather than from partiality , accepted , tolerated , even encouraged the solemn formalities of stateless justice ; the Zuwaya equally did not reject due process of courts and judgements : these were not exclusive . |
| 26 | The marriage of James 's son James IV to Margaret Tudor , from which the Stewart claim to the English throne derived , came about more because of pressure from Henry VII than from any Scottish enthusiasm ; and the Treaty of Perpetual Peace which accompanied it would last for no more than eleven years , collapsing because James could not sustain his obligations to both France and England when Henry VIII joined the pope 's grotesquely named Holy League against France . |
| 27 | The local schoolteachers knew that their pupils learnt more from her than from any other source . |
| 28 | Even now , with so much suffering in the early stages of radical reform , he and his government are likely to get a better hearing from the voters than from Congress . |
| 29 | Similarly , he felt that part-time tutors were more likely to respond to advice from a professional tutor than from someone not involved on the teaching side . |
| 30 | Training , for the younger members of the family through ATB courses , was sometimes seen as an ‘ easy option ’ by the father who felt that instruction of the son came better from a professional than from himself . |