Example sentences of "than it [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is no easier to blame either him or Diana completely for the separation than it is with any parting couple , it is beyond doubt that he is principally responsible . |
| 2 | The way forward then is to recruit , and the importance of new members was never more critical than it is at this time . |
| 3 | Any kind of first occasion always seems more difficult than subsequent occasions and this is no less true of a change in an electoral system than it is of any other kind of change . |
| 4 | In its overall approach to competition , EC policy is much closer in spirit to UK policy than it is to any of the alternatives discussed above , although there are some important differences of detail which we consider later . |
| 5 | John Bayley , after the remark quoted above , goes on to complain about ‘ the almost purely technical nature of this modern criticism , even more unsuited to how we actually respond to Dostoevsky than it is to most authors . ’ |
| 6 | It is extraordinary that it is easier for the EC to export to Hungary , Czechoslovakia and Poland than it is for those countries to export to the EC . |
| 7 | Thus , Walker points out that , in 1981 , 66.8 per cent of all pensioners lived at or below the 140 per cent supplementary-benefit level , compared with one-fifth of the non-elderly ; and the risk of experiencing poverty is three times greater for those over retirement age than it is for those below it . |
| 8 | It is neither more nor less important that a mentally handicapped adolescent finds a place of work than it is for any other adolescent . |
| 9 | But there are those for whom the task is easier than it is for most . |
| 10 | What is remarkable about the text-books ( which describe the chemical structure of the various chains in loving detail ) is not so much that they do not explain the discrepancy but that they do not even notice it ; nor are they apparently interested in the fact that the work of fracture for a material like Polythene or Nylon is at least a hundred times higher than it is for most of the thermosetting plastics . |
| 11 | In societies where the organization of social and economic life is based much more closely on kinship than it is for most people in contemporary Britain , women 's involvement in exchanging goods and services with female relatives plays an important role in maintaining the solidarity of the kin group . |
| 12 | This preliminary chat should be much higher on the agenda than it is in many salons . ’ |
| 13 | In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries . |
| 14 | It does not provide a resolution of the conflict in either psychological or social terms , but because of the aesthetic coherence of the novel , the problem itself is stated more forcefully than it is in either of the two previous works . |
| 15 | As we shall see in Chapter 3 , this conception of measurement , although originally proposed as an account of scientific measurement in general , bears only a superficial relationship to much of measurement in science which is an activity much more integral to substantive theories than it is in most social research . |
| 16 | than it is in another , pro rata |
| 17 | The fantasy relation between reader and text , in the case of a man reading Playboy , is more like the relation between consumer and a realist novel than it is like that between reader and the text of Kafka . |
| 18 | More trouble than it 's worth those |
| 19 | It was not the only type of landscape that existed in this region any more than it was over much of England . |
| 20 | But yes , erm it , it 's partly sediment brought down from inland , it 's also the fact that you have offshore of Rye the area of Winchelsea Beach and so-called Rye Harbour which is somewhat detached from the town of Rye , and there 's been an enormous accumulation of shingle there , so that the Castle , which was built in , that 's Camber Castle which was built in the reign of Henry the Eighth , since that time the shoreline at Winchelsea Beach , as a result of the accumulation of shingle , has moved in excess of one point five kilometres seaward of that point , and so obviously erm Rye is now much further inland than it was at that time . |
| 21 | In general one might say that Law has become marginally less distinct from other subjects than it was in that quite a few people are doing cross disciplinary research , e.g. in law and economics and law and society . |
| 22 | Although the presentation of information on the instruments or cathode ray tubes is infinitely better than it was in those old aircraft , the basic type of ‘ director ’ information is little different from what we had on the old zero-reader . |
| 23 | In the short period of Post-glacial time the ice sheets have not completely melted with the result that present sea level is probably lower than it was in some of the interglacial periods . |