Sentence examples for than converted from inspiring English sources

Like the earlier Hampton, all four hotels are to be built from the ground up, rather than converted from other hotel brands or other buildings.

In the thrift shops -- most nothing more than converted cargo containers -- mothers search through mounds of musty clothes to buy $2 Superman pajamas for their sons.

More were disowned than converted, and since most members were the children of members, it is not surprising that Friends eventually came to recognize a category of "birthright" membership, which seemed to relax the expectation of conversion.

In the presence of molecular oxygen, Rubisco also catalyzes a reaction in which oxygen is introduced (i.e., it acts as an oxygenase), and CO2 is formed rather than converted.

The occasion itself was a signal that today's Russia sees itself as a proud successor to an imperial realm which co-opted rather than converted the religious communities that lay in its path.

To aid the conservation of T. lamproides the managing authority planned to retain a "biodiversity spine" (i.e. a string of contiguous coupes (logging units) that would be regenerated to native forest rather than converted to plantation) within areas earmarked for major plantation development.

Rather than converting and expanding the two existing buildings.

Closing them is better than converting them to gas).

Converting money into property is always more fun than converting property into money.

The problem is more complicated than converting between units of fuel and distance.

It is as if the Europeans have chosen to copy Mr Bush, rather than convert him.