Example sentences of "than the [noun] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the purpose of training to instil in the child mind a conscience that will be his guide , and this training is best done , and usually is done , by the various processes involving reward , and in this respect it must always be remembered that there is little greater reward that can be offered a child than the knowledge that it is loved . |
| 2 | One unit was composed of many more buildings than the others and it is suggested that it represents a social difference with specialist activities taking place there . |
| 3 | At £1,249 it costs around 50 per cent more than the Phoenix but it is the most powerful machine . |
| 4 | The rhetoric was always more extreme than the practice but it is the rhetoric which has persisted . |
| 5 | The gypsum crust is more soluble than the limestone so it is quite rapidly weathered by rainwater . |
| 6 | Also , company 1 , by focusing on decreasing margins through time , rather than the fact that it is still earning better margins than a rival , may be ‘ bearish ’ and let company 2 get established in the market too easily . |
| 7 | Erm now okay I accept that erm what you 're getting now or starting to get through in some areas is a higher degree of expectation , but if we 're not achieving that then I think it 's something to do with what we 're , the way in which we 're , we 're operating rather than the fact that it is n't achievable . |
| 8 | That other people think the job has been well done is far more important to him , he says , than the fact that it was done by him . |
| 9 | But no , I I enjoyed it , other than the fact that it was so hot in there ! |