Example sentences of "than if they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALL the contract catering chefs interviewed believed that their rates of pay were higher than if they were working in hotels or restaurants . |
| 2 | Families where there has been a murder find that people are more reluctant to talk to them than if they had suffered an ordinary bereavement — sometimes even crossing the street to avoid them . |
| 3 | They shouted for us to stop , but we ai n't take that on any more than if they were Chinese in the film , we were recreating our life like how we recreate the film . |
| 4 | If you ask medical staff how often they have seen someone die , rather than if they have been around at the time , surprisingly few will say they witnessed the actual event . |
| 5 | If teachers are to assume a greater role in the control of their own organisations a far wider range of knowledge and skills is required than if they are to remain ‘ in the classroom ’ — they must move from the restricted to the extended approach . |
| 6 | The increased dose they would get from having Hinkley C on their doorstep , according to Jeremy Western ( a manager from the Board 's Health Physics department who confidently fronted the radiation case ) was less than if they had simply moved from one part of Britain to another — where the ‘ natural ’ background radiation happened to be higher . |
| 7 | They are happier now , for by conserving and converting the existing buildings they were able to achieve a higher percentage of floor space than if they had built anew . |
| 8 | But other factors cross-cut and a given lone-parent family may still be better off than if they were in a two-parent household characterized by vindictiveness , meanness , or violence ( Pahl , 1985 ) . |
| 9 | Thirdly of course , Table 6.1 shows that even people with some recognised degree of dementia cost much less to sustain at home ( in terms of community service costs ) than if they lived in an institution . |
| 10 | With both types of reinforcement , children are more fully informed than if they receive only one . |
| 11 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 12 | Town 's drugs are often made in Britain , flown to the Far East or some other convenient staging post and then brought back on the next night — to be sold more cheaply than if they had never left Britain . |
| 13 | If they face this honestly it is somehow less offensive than if they pretend that they are having their pets mutilated for ‘ the cat 's own good ’ . |
| 14 | As long as new measures of social policy in these areas could be presented as solutions to an inner city problem they stood a greater chance of popular acceptance than if they were seen as no more than further attempts to rid the nation of the welfare state legacy of the post-war era and the dependency mentality that went along with it . |
| 15 | Someone investing in only one or two shares , whether through a PEP or not , is exposed to a much greater risk than if they put the same sum into some form of collective investment . |
| 16 | By resorting to a money-lender it became more difficult to conceal their embarrassment — than if they had merely run up bills with retailers . |
| 17 | I ran to your reviews as if they were my own and felt more dismay and indignation than if they had been . |
| 18 | However things turn out , try to reflect the mood of the scene by the pace of the cutting of your shots : if the children are quiet and thoughtful , the shots can be held a little longer than if they are lively and excited ( provided that the adult does a good job of filling in the gaps in the action ) . |
| 19 | For UK residents , the reason for considering offshore funds , other than if they have some special appeal — such as currency funds because they are not widely available in the UK — will be possible tax advantages . |
| 20 | And of course , quotations of APR by individual traders would be very much more valuable if people could set them against a background of what is typical than if they stood alone , in isolation . |
| 21 | Into the Home territory beyond they had to go fairly warily , but less so than if they had been a weaker company , not because of fears that the Homes would betray them to Dunbar but in that they were always jealous of their declared rights to decide who should enter their country and what they should pay for the privilege ; but two hundred and fifty well-armed men in tight formation carried their own safe-conduct , and they rode through without challenge . |
| 22 | Some regional breweries such as Palatine have found good niches for their products , but many others are content to sell lagers brewed by national companies such as Whitbread , thus accepting lower margins than if they brewed their own . |
| 23 | Not only are they very much simpler to weed and maintain , but if you have a back problem they are easier to reach than if they are closer to the ground . |
| 24 | The study suggests that women under 50 with breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease if it is first picked up by mammograms than if they discover the lump by feeling their breasts . |
| 25 | More satisfied than if they had been handed a big discount on a plate . |
| 26 | They could earn far more money in these positions than if they remained inside the universities , be assured of good meals daily and sometimes also have accommodation provided . |
| 27 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said later : ‘ People always clap louder if they 're opposed to something than if they 're in favour of it . ’ |
| 28 | It is because they take to these artificial sites so readily that pied flycatchers have been studied in such detail : breeding in a nest box allows nests to be checked and the adults to be caught and ringed much more easily than if they were in natural cavities . |
| 29 | But if both players accept this logic and defect , they end up worse off than if they had co-operated . |
| 30 | With the law as it is there may be some men who would prefer an adult partner , but who at present turn their attention to boys because they consider that this course is less likely to lay them open to prosecution or to blackmail than if they sought other adults as their partners . |