Example sentences of "than [vb -s] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change of style at the corner of Downing Street , on the other hand , would provide no greater contrast ‘ than occurs at every turn in the Grand Canal at Venice where Gothic and renaissance palaces constantly alternate to the great satisfaction of the artist ’ and would avoid the ‘ stereotyped monotony of a single style ’ . |
| 2 | Clearly , it shows a very much more complex structure than exists at the moment ( see Figure 3.1a ) . |
| 3 | The position of the mother would be one of even greater dependence than exists at the moment . |
| 4 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 5 | Much civility , much comfort ( comfort in France ! ) made every arrangement pleasurable ; and all this without more vociferation or commotion than prevails at Paddington ; to say nothing of the second-class carriage being nearly equal to our first . |
| 6 | This is a much more debatable — and debated — point than appears at first sight . |
| 7 | The distinction does arise and it can not entirely be neglected but it is much less important than appears at first sight . |
| 8 | There may prove to be less difference between some modern versions of Christianity and Buddhism and psychoanalysis than appears at first sight . |
| 9 | Such compound instructions may therefore be less useful than appears at first sight . |
| 10 | Those who have worked in the legal civil service report that it is much more interesting than appears at first sight . |
| 11 | In these pulsars , γ -ray emission accounts for as much as 1% of the total neutron star spin-down energy , much more than emerges at optical or radio frequencies , so study of this emission is important in understanding pulsar emission and evolution . |