Example sentences of "[adj -er] than it [is] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | People often say that a certain noise gets louder at night , even though its measured level does not alter ; this is because , at night , the level of the background noise is generally lower than it is during the day , During the recession , people near once noisy factories started to appreciate the quiet . |
| 2 | Many people living today , in the advanced industrial societies at least , can not imagine that anything in the past was better than it is in the present . |
| 3 | It turns out that for these kinds of DNA the rate of change in evolution is much higher than it is for the more constrained , ‘ coding ’ , regions . |
| 4 | ‘ Staff morale is higher than it is on the NHS . |
| 5 | The concentration of salts in the blood of fresh-water fish is much higher than it is in the water surrounding them . |
| 6 | The detailed differences between the CO and CS maps imply that the pressure of interstellar gas in the bulge is much higher than it is in the disk . |
| 7 | The East Kilbride centre , which concentrates on wind power , will be important in the United Kingdom 's development of new technologies in highly exposed areas where the meterage per second of wind speed , especially in Scotland , is considerably higher than it is in the east and south-east of England . |
| 8 | In probably no other country is the image of cycling and the cyclist stronger than it is in the Netherlands . |
| 9 | ‘ And probably the level of civilisation is no greater than it is within the Khanate — otherwise the embassy would be coming the other way . ’ |