Example sentences of "much [adv] [adj] than it " in BNC.
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| 1 | If exchange relationships were based totally on unscrupulous self-interested behaviour , the resulting distrust and the cost of legal action to enforce contracts would render market coordination much less efficient than it is in the presence of trust built up through networks and embedded social expectations that contracts will be honoured . |
| 2 | … in-service training is often much less effective than it could be because it is based on an ‘ educational model ’ i.e. is focussed largely on the individual . |
| 3 | Hearse Arête is certainly worth a mention , being much less macabre than it sounds , simply the companion to Undertake 's Buttress ! |
| 4 | Some " birds " nests are hemispherical , but only on the inside ; you must cut a honeycomb with a sharp knife if you want to see the accurate hexagons of its construction ; the geometry of spiders ' webs is astonishing but much less regular than it at first appears . |
| 5 | Particularly , the notion of ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ to which Weiner and Labov obliquely refer ( see above ) is much less straightforward than it seems . |
| 6 | Once waste is solidified , it is much less dangerous than it is when blowing about in the air or dissolved in water . |
| 7 | Equally , science would be much less advanced than it is if the only available data were intuitive estimates of quantities . |
| 8 | There is generally little intermarriage between the Central Asians and other non-Muslim nationalities , and a knowledge of Russian is much less common than it is elsewhere in the other post-Soviet republics . |
| 9 | In previous generations it was much less likely than it is now that grandparents would have lived to know their grandchildren as adults ( see chapters 2 and 3 ) . |
| 10 | After the Edinburgh summit , that looks much less likely than it did and that can only be good news for Courtaulds . |
| 11 | However , this is much less widespread than it used to be and two surgeons from Guys Hospital in London and Withington Hospital in Manchester believe this is a mistake . |
| 12 | The debate about using readmission to measure quality of care is obviously much more complex than it seems at first sight . |
| 13 | The scene is much more complex than it was say a generation or two ago and Moderator we in the Church of England should be much interested to learn in due course whether you too will feel a need to make liturgical revision for these various paths to faith . |
| 14 | For many patients with cancer , the prospect of long-term survival without recurrence is much more uncertain than it is , say , for infections , such as tuberculosis or cholera . |
| 15 | Professor Hurstfield has however inferred from the preamble that the government wanted something much more far-reaching than it got : nothing less than unlimited authority to legislate by proclamation . |
| 16 | Your time is much more limited than it would be in a real case , and you can not afford to waste it ; on the other hand , it is no use gabbling what you have to say , for then it will not be understood . |
| 17 | This is all much more simple than it might seem from the previous , necessarily precise , rules . |
| 18 | The youth component of that crime is much more substantial than it was , according to all the figures . |
| 19 | You 've got to get Boris 's agreement before anyone can press the trigger or is this actually much more dangerous than it sounds , is he saying we want to take over the nuclear weapons . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's much more important than it used to be , ’ concedes Martin Hawtree , Secretary of the British Association of Golf Course Architects ( BAGCA ) . |
| 21 | I had few worries that she would suddenly take an interest in American history , but she might notice something out of place and the combination lock looked much more sophisticated than it actually was . |
| 22 | At the beginning of the year , however , the trend argument was much more plausible than it is today . |
| 23 | In accounting for the curious distortion of the doctrine that has taken place in England , it is clear that this can not be explained by the mere presence of constitutional arrangements based on a separation of powers or it would be much more prevalent than it is . |
| 24 | I would first like to explain your obligations on an issue which has caused a great deal of concern and confusion for returners by being made to appear much more complicated than it actually is . |
| 25 | This is much more difficult than it sounds , and requires a great deal of skill and practice ( see Mann 1985 ; Oppenheim 1966 ) . |
| 26 | Schoolteachers were not expected to engage in research , and by the 1870s this was anyway much more difficult than it had been in 1800 : there was more to master first , and more equipment was needed . |
| 27 | Everything was er so much more difficult than it , than it is today and er things were not sort of disposed of like they are now . |
| 28 | Cnut still had a difficult road to travel , but by the end of 1017 some major obstacles already lay behind him , and his position in England was much more secure than it had been twelve months earlier . |
| 29 | Clearly there can be no real risk or toxic shock syndrome would be very much more common than it is . |
| 30 | Like most villages , Lund in past times was much more self-sufficient than it is now , with its own grocers , shoemakers , tailors and the like and , during the 19th century , a second public house , the Speed the Plough . |