Example sentences of "than [Wh det] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever is thought masculine is also valued more highly than whatever is considered feminine . |
| 2 | There is more to a meal than what 's put on the plates . |
| 3 | If searching for last-minute presents , look no further than What 's Cooking . |
| 4 | Most of these , as opposed to Hollywood films , go to immense trouble to get the details right , and by concentrating on the background rather than what 's going on you can get a fine haul , especially with the aid of a video . |
| 5 | Implying that the water we supply is worse than what 's in Europe , and the sewage effluence we put into rivers is not as good as the rest of Europe . |
| 6 | I suggested putting an old lady sitting on a bench with a lace shawl erm er sculpture of so that it represents er Nottingham lace and etcetera and I said it would look more attractive and catch people 's eye than what 's there at the present . |
| 7 | Seventy per cent of working women are paid less than what 's estimated to be a ‘ living wage ’ . |
| 8 | I personally feel it 's better than what 's there now at the moment , it 's also positioned on a a site which is now zoned for housing anyway in the district plan , erm it is providing true good quality houses in the area , we we personally feel that it 's better than what 's being proposed alongside here . |
| 9 | I personally feel it 's better than what 's there now at the moment , it 's also positioned on a a site which is now zoned for housing anyway in the district plan , erm it is providing true good quality houses in the area , we we personally feel that it 's better than what 's being proposed alongside here . |
| 10 | The only benefits that seem to have been suggested is that their proposals are better than what 's there at the moment , er Grant Developments must be aware that there is a , an approval , a current planning approval for the development of that site , which is a development to retain the existing bungalow and develop the existing bungalow , and to build a house in the rear . |
| 11 | Because it 'll probably need more than what 's in the bucket anyway . |
| 12 | Anthropological knowledge can seem , and often is , dangerous and subversive — not because we are good at digging up dirt ( we are ) , nor simply because we document what ‘ actually happens ’ rather than what is supposed to happen , but because our ways of defining situations and problems often raise questions in our minds about the fundamental assumptions on which any institution bases its own definitions , and indeed the assumptions on which it rests as an institution . |
| 13 | Being gripped by a narrative is an altogether wider notion than what is presaged by the two-in-one of being outside yet inside Raskolnikov 's ‘ strange smile ’ : the rehearsal of the murder , the murder sequence itself , the three long duels with the detective Porfiry , the suffering , the hesitation , the final climb up the police-station stairs . |
| 14 | A toneless , disjunctive fact , droll and very uneasy , one of those amputated thoughts I have just mentioned and –so a sensation , a crawling sensation of the time being out of joint ; there is more Hamlet to The Possessed than what is personal to Stavrogin , ‘ the Prince ’ as he first appears , though on the surface of his mind Dostoevsky evidently meant Prince Hal , not the Prince of Denmark . |
| 15 | But what is included is less revealing than what is excluded : all the excessive elements of working-class consumption that refuse to fit neatly into this socialist continence — Stanley knives , lurid cocktails , Blind Date , trash videos , tabloids , bingo , heavy metal , Club 18–30 … |
| 16 | What is the speaker meaning , rather than what is being said ? |
| 17 | But change it does , and there is no better barometer of that change than what is censored , by libraries as well as by other institutions . |
| 18 | What we seek is school management which more fully reflects this diversity of opinion , rather than what is widely seen as the inflexible dogma of the current approach . |
| 19 | If it is obvious to both of them that what the speaker has just said is false , or so obvious as to need no comment at all , the hearer will look for implications , that is to say what is implied other than what is expressed . |
| 20 | The importance of this is that word-of-mouth information from shop assistants , salesmen and agents seems more influential for consumers than what is written into credit notices and contracts — but of course much less easy to regulate . |
| 21 | The year 1660 saw a major revolution in grave-clothes , indirectly leading to the firm establishment of undertaking as a distinct trade , the birth of a new industry and some additional work for the jobbing printer ; for in this year an Act came into force , which decreed that all persons had to be buried in shifts , shrouds and winding-sheets made of woollen material , rather than linen , and free from ‘ Flax , Hemp , Silk , Hair , Gold or Silver , or other than what is made of Sheeps Wooll only ’ . |
| 22 | Religion has much deeper roots , and its influence is much more pervasive than what is commonly seen and interpreted as ‘ religious ’ . |
| 23 | Humans , when reading , often miss spelling errors , because their expectations of what the text should say , influence the visual system , so that they read the intended word , rather than what is actually in front of them . |
| 24 | A world transfixed by the horror in the Balkans is entitled to feel it has better things to worry about than what is not happening in the Middle East . |
| 25 | Moreover , star formation within the central parsec requires gas densities higher than 3x10 7 cm -3 to avoid tidal disruption , a value much higher than what is observed at present . |
| 26 | So we respond to what we perceive to be the case rather than what is the case . |
| 27 | For example , the ways in which a child , boy or girl , relates to the parent of the same sex seems to be produced by something more than what is given in the actual family situation . |
| 28 | The historian D.L.W. Tough comments that the main pointers are in what is omitted rather than what is mentioned : barely a reference to shirts or nightshirts , and the possibility that even adult Borderers had their underclothes sewn on and removed as seldom as those of slum children in later industrial cities . |
| 29 | All of that may be true of various couplets of Hebrew poetry , but it is quite other than what is being urged in this paper . |
| 30 | It is our reasons for asserting a dependent conditional which bring in a good deal more than what is brought in by the conditional itself . |