Example sentences of "[adv] than [pron] [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 The schools of Freud and Jung are now much closer together than they used to be : it 's been said that Jungians tend to be more ‘ spiritually ’ orientated .
2 Medical treatment for hay fever is now much better than it used to be .
3 The only problem is that it is messy and somewhat smelly , though much less so than it used to be .
4 Though we feel ourselves to be much more comfortable now than we used to be , there has been very little increase in domestic fuel demand over fifty years or more .
5 Gamma Virginis or Arich is also a binary ; the identical components can be split with almost any telescope , though not with binoculars ( they are much less wide apart now than they used to be 50 years ago , and the separation is decreasing steadily ) .
6 The door is great I mean it 's bigger actually the doors and windows are bigger now than they used to be , are n't they ?
7 But JPL is still associated with Caltech , and acceptance of classified research at US universities is much less ready now than it used to be .
8 now than it used to be , or is it just about the same ?
9 Yes , I think that 's true , but at the same time there is a debate going on as to whether in fact there 's more violence now than there used to be , some people say there is more violence , other people say that , that erm that 's not the case .
10 Well they , they had to do the , it had n't used to have very good drainage and far more of a slope , it , it 's far more level today than it used to be , it used to have a great slope towards the long end which was considered an advantage to Walsall and the water used to gather , but I believe the improved the drainage and had pipes put under which it , it does n't seem to gather water so much now down at the railway end .
11 The information will become known a bit faster than it used to be .
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