Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] than it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Empowerment on the shop floor appears to be more widespread in Japanese enterprises than it does in the bureaucratically conceived Fordist structures of Western modernity . |
| 2 | The steering worried me more on Brecon 's narrow tracks than it had on the motorway . |
| 3 | Companies are merely voluntary associations of individuals joined together by contract , and correspondingly the state has no greater standing to intervene in corporate affairs than it has in the individual affairs of the citizens who make the company up . |
| 4 | So , for example , National Certificate ( level III ) Care requires higher levels of communication and personal and interpersonal skills than it does of numeracy ( see specification on page 7 ) . |
| 5 | While the price of doing business in Russia is high — the cost of office space in Moscow , for example , is rocketing — Hall reckons Sun kit will cost less in the Commonwealth of Independent States than it does in the rest of Europe , where customers are used to paying a premium for computer products . |
| 6 | mm yes get us at a much more er er effective role in reducing tariffs on manufactured goods than it has on agricultural goods and it 's only in this last round of G A T T talks , the Uruguay round that agriculture has been brought into the frame alright . |
| 7 | The crucial factor is whether technology provides new jobs at a higher rate in new activities than it eliminates in older industry . |
| 8 | We must also remember that the Bible has more to say about giving to meet the needs of other individuals than it does about supporting Christian institutions . |
| 9 | Its election campaign , focusing not so much on criticism of communist rule as on demands for a redefinition of Slovenia 's status within Yugoslavia , was attuned to the resentment felt by many Slovenes of the lack of political reform elsewhere in the country , of the hostility of the military leadership to Slovene reforms , and especially of Slovenia 's subsidizing the economies of the " backward " southern republics : with only 8 per cent of Yugoslavia 's population , Slovenia produced 20 per cent of its national product and 25 per cent of its exports , while paying nearly 4@1/2 times more in federal taxes to subsidize other republics than it received in federal finance programmes . |
| 10 | The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival . |