Example sentences of "[noun] than [pron] [vb past] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1986 there were three times the number of places in private homes than there had been in 1979 . |
| 2 | It is probable that plague remained a constant threat , even if it is less well recorded in contemporary writings than at an earlier date ; probably men were more inured to its presence than they had been in the first shock of 1348 . |
| 3 | Social and economic change and political and industrial movements had by the end of the century made ‘ the social question , a more central political and intellectual issue than it had been in 1870 . |
| 4 | But in practice the intrusion of the laity into government service made it rather less like a twentieth-century bureaucracy than it had been in the later middle ages . |
| 5 | Marrying him was one thing ; loving him and defying her family and Father Dowd had taken more courage and determination than she knew was in her . |
| 6 | I mean th th th the clan links in the south were much stronger than they were in the north , and therefore there might be even greater commercial landlord opposition to land reform than there had been in the north . |
| 7 | In the fourth century , Athenian democracy was curtailed in ways harder to resist than a Hyperbolus , who could simply be got rid of : the institutionalized power of the men who administered the various state funds grew in the course of the fourth century , and as such people got above themselves Athens became a less democratic place than it had been in the fifth century . |
| 8 | The government was very much more ready to mobilize all the nation 's resources in the Second World War than it had been in the First . |
| 9 | and Jacobitism than it had been in the previous year , yet Craigbarnet 's plight was serious and a failure to help him would offend many . |
| 10 | She still dealt in stolen goods when she got the chance , but the police were less interested in stolen goods than they had been in the more law-abiding times of some years before . |
| 11 | As one settlement worker remarked , while the after-care committees provided ‘ many more opportunities for direct personal service than there had been in the past ’ , the exchange system brought the home visitors and the club managers into the ‘ industrial side ’ and , therefore , united the social and industrial welfare of adolescents . |
| 12 | This is not to say that James II ( or VII as he was in his northern Kingdom ) was any more popular in Scotland at the time of the Revolution than he had been in England . |
| 13 | Not for the first time it occurred to him how vulnerable his position was , and he reflected ruefully that there was probably no more security or protection in the rank of Khan than there had been in any of the various honours which he had received while he had been an intimate of the clique which had surrounded Nogai . |
| 14 | Yet , without minimising the very real material and political benefits gained by ordinary working-class people in the 1940s , one must recognise the qualitatively ambiguous nature of these welfare innovations : a National Health Service which greatly benefited working-class women and children but also consolidated the power of an elite of consultants ; secondary education for all , but qualitatively differentiated , with selection by and large on grounds of social class , and the independent sector left intact ; a comprehensive social security system , but with benefit rates no higher in relation to average earnings than they had been in the 1930s . |
| 15 | She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ? |
| 16 | Henceforward , at least in theory , the highest echelons of society were less likely to be permeated by gifted but landless bureaucrats than they had been in the past . |
| 17 | No such state emerged , however , and 1945 found them no farther along the road than they had been in 1918 . |
| 18 | There is less scorn in the novel than there had been in the article , and a pity that must have come as surprise to readers of his work . |
| 19 | Although there was no hope that her own son and his intimates would forgo their day 's sport , there were those less inclined for the hunt than they had been in their younger days . |
| 20 | He thought that they would be happier under the cockpit awning than they had been in the water . |
| 21 | In the first place , the ownership of land and the occupation of farms was concentrated into far fewer hands in the eighteenth century than they had been in the medieval village . |
| 22 | They show considerable fluctuations in the annual level of real wages , but are markedly higher in the early fifteenth century than they had been in the late fourteenth . |
| 23 | The economic crisis following the Black Death had undoubtedly given men of enterprise the opportunity to better their condition , and there was probably more mobility of population in the fifteenth century than there had been in the thirteenth . |
| 24 | Government efforts to promote national unity and identity and improved communications contributed to Japanese society 's becoming more homogeneous by the early twentieth century than it had been in the Tokugawa period . |