Example sentences of "[det] [noun] than it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Michelangelo computer virus that received worldwide attention last year is expected to cause even fewer problems this Saturday than it did when it struck last year , a team of IBM researchers said ’ . |
| 2 | The government probably went further down this road than it had originally envisaged . |
| 3 | Indeed , Wirral had no more reason to have such structures than it had for setting up multi-professional committees to discuss the dangers of residents keeping snakes as pets in council-owned properties . |
| 4 | The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat . |
| 5 | Shedding surplus weight depends on providing your body with fewer calories than it needs to keep going . |
| 6 | The USSR devoted more energy and resources to the development of diplomatic and trading ties with these nations than it did to establishing effective operational links with the Communist parties . |
| 7 | The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught . |
| 8 | As the phonemic contrasts in one 's own language are " built in " , it can be expected that it takes longer to detach oneself from these contrasts than it takes to master the actual pronunciation . |
| 9 | Nigeria 's rainforests have been so exploited for logs that the country now imports more hardwood than it exports . |
| 10 | What a turnaround for a Government which only a couple of years ago actually raised more money than it spent and was dedicated to not borrowing . |
| 11 | The heart of the economic matter is whether the government will insist on collecting more money than it spends , so that it can reduce the mountain of public debt that has piled up since 1980 ( see chart 1 ) . |
| 12 | HP 's decision on Destiny was made despite its awareness that Unix , key to its own strategy , needs greater ‘ uniformity , ’ or at least less fragmentation than it has currently garnered , to succeed in any big way . |
| 13 | As it was , RTD received far less investment than it needed to improve reception . |
| 14 | This healthy contribution of commercial interests , which , after all , have experience and technical know-how which is often in short supply in ministries , deserves more recognition than it has received , especially since it does much to offset the squalid tale of the involvement by one British company at this time in corrupt monopoly state publishing ventures during the Obote and Nkrumah governments in Uganda and Ghana . |
| 15 | The preservation of the status quo was also Nicholas 's prime concern with regard to central and western Europe , though here , paradoxically , his policy should have involved much more fighting than it did . |
| 16 | It is probable that in retrospect he gave that factor more weight than it carried at the time . |
| 17 | On this issue , the decision of the parents should carry far less weight than it does . |
| 18 | It must have the additional power of a moral code based on a religion , and there is no part of human affairs in which this applies with more force than it does in the matter of child rearing . |
| 19 | At stake is whether the scheme will create more wealth than it destroys . |
| 20 | Seemingly more interested in spoiling tactics than news values , The Sun gave the supposed transcript of an alleged row between Prince Charles and his estranged wife far more prominence than it deserved . |
| 21 | The Labour Party entered the election campaign with more advantages than it realised . |
| 22 | There is , in theory , no reason why the state should not collect a great deal more tax than it does . |
| 23 | With a burden of about 150 kilograms — equal to more than a quarter of its body weight — a camel burns only around 15 per cent more fuel than it burns unladen . |
| 24 | It could present a legal problem resulting in the council spending more on those costs than it saved in the first place . |
| 25 | The enclosed cab is covered in lightly-grained black Tolex with no corner pieces , while the front , which angles gently back towards the top , is more rock'n'roll than it looks . |
| 26 | If this by itself were not sufficient grounds for paying Spain more attention than it has hitherto received , the development of the country 's industrial relations over the last decade provides ample material for fertile investigation . |
| 27 | Yet such a conclusion may raise more questions than it answers . |
| 28 | Like any stimulating text it leaves the reader pondering on more questions than it answers . |
| 29 | This passage raises a good many more questions than it answers . |
| 30 | Yet the editor of the Sunday Times explained his paper 's coverage and position in a way which begs more questions than it answers . |