Example sentences of "than they be [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And was Simone de Beauvoir ( 1972 ) justified in believing that , because women ‘ live dispersed among the males , attached through residence , housework , economic condition , and social standing to certain men — fathers or husbands — more firmly than they are to other women ’ , they can have no common identity or history ? |
| 2 | B , b , This classification is one of several suggesting that one or other of the fossil groups are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than they are to other agnathans . |
| 3 | This is one field of higher education where in some cases the fees from the overseas student are no higher than they are for British nationals . |
| 4 | At low river flows the effects of pollution are greater than they are at high flows , and , if there is any contamination that is likely to affect textile processing , this will show up more in samples taken at such times . |
| 5 | Why are people less prepared to vote in local government elections than they are in general elections ? |
| 6 | Neglect or minimization of a task is at best only a short-term expedient , and the housewife 's awareness of this fact causes time pressures to be felt possibly more acutely than they are in other kinds of work . |
| 7 | But I mean d do you think the people are more unfriendly around here than they are in other parts of the town ? |
| 8 | We need to tighten the time schedules for the writing of reports , and ensure that the workloads are more evenly spread than they are in some cases at the moment . |
| 9 | With a number of solids the interatomic forces are stronger and stiffer than they are in common liquids and so the surface energies are higher , often ten or twenty times the values for ordinary liquids . |
| 10 | The traveller who reaches this point is rewarded by an insight into why our powers of measurement in quantum mechanics are more restricted than they are in classical mechanics ; why we can not , for instance , measure both the position of an electron and its momentum . |
| 11 | The opportunities offered by Post Ordination Training and in-service clergy training ( CME ) should be used much more than they are by most dioceses , perhaps in collaboration with music colleges or diocesan music advisers . |
| 12 | It seems probable that elderly people as a whole have more secure incomes and are less marginalized as consumers today than they were at earlier times in this century . |
| 13 | Voters were now said to be more worried about ‘ poor public services ’ than they were about high taxes . |
| 14 | It is the case that typical households in the later part of the twentieth century are much less likely than they were in earlier times to contain anyone other than the conjugal family . |