Example sentences of "than [pron] is [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This woman inhabits several time spans at once : she is no less at home with the whirling world of angels and demons than she is with the cordless phone and the digital clock . |
| 2 | ‘ Even then , ’ says one of the filmmakers , ‘ Breathless was dramatically different than she is in the final script . |
| 3 | There is not the freedom of movement there is with the network system but there is far less deadweight of support staff than there is with the pyramid or layer system . |
| 4 | There is no question of any political party policy for AIB , to be implemented by a minister , any more than there is for the judiciary . |
| 5 | There is no more evidence for the use of pattern books as regulators of design than there is for the existence of central workshops servicing definable territories . |
| 6 | This is not a consideration which applies to other factors of production : there is far less concern about the proportion of a country 's capital stock which is lying idle than there is about the proportion of the labour force which is unemployed . |
| 7 | However , there is even less agreement among linguists about how to apply semantics than there is about the use of syntax . |
| 8 | Since ESS 's arise from a dynamics , there is no assumption of rationality any more than there is in the case of kin selection . |
| 9 | The implication of this is that there is more scope for innovation and change in Europe than there is in the UK . |
| 10 | Although there is a risk from the mood-altering properties of these substances , there is a greater risk of return to addictive use of drugs from unrelieved pain than there is from the strictly temporary appropriate use of these mood-altering chemicals . |
| 11 | Labour 's Peter Mandelson dismissed the remarks and added : ‘ It is impossible to imagine a housing market more depressed than it is under the present Tory government . |
| 12 | At one side of the galaxy the gas is travelling at 700 km per second faster than it is on the other side . |
| 13 | ‘ Staff morale is higher than it is on the NHS . |
| 14 | Barbed wire might well become more common than it is at the moment . |
| 15 | Further , discomfort is much more prevalent at the base of an organization than it is at the top , both physically and psychologically . |
| 16 | The result is bound to be that it will be far harder to acquire convictions in these cases than it is at the moment . |
| 17 | And irrationality is , 1 would argue , more firmly at the centre of Western , Christian , culture than it is at the centre of Islam . |
| 18 | It should complement the Bishop 's Park which by then , it is hoped , will be kept in a better state than it is at the moment . |
| 19 | But the major problem is that the sites which we have at the present moment are not controlled , and if we could get proper sites , properly managed , I think you would find that the whole erm picture of a gipsy site in an area would be much better received by the public than it is at the present . |
| 20 | Because the proportion in such care rises with increasing age , the survey is more representative of those in the late 60s and early 70s than it is of the over-75s . |
| 21 | Indeed the detailed , cautious , inconclusive report of the commission is probably now of more interest to outsiders like me than it is to the Kenyans . |
| 22 | What this all adds up to is that the coding of give/take relationship in fields quite remote from private domestic affairs is much closer to what the members of modern capitalist societies assume to be appropriate only for the restricted context of the domestic household than it is to the coding of power relationships within the wider context of the market economy which I was discussing earlier . |
| 23 | Indeed , it remains a possibility that the mosaics of Gaul influenced the development of pavements in Britain : this is even more applicable to the pavements with type C and B arrangements than it is to the Orpheus mosaics and their associated geometric panels . |
| 24 | It turns out that for these kinds of DNA the rate of change in evolution is much higher than it is for the more constrained , ‘ coding ’ , regions . |
| 25 | It is easier for us to do this than it is for the English or Americans . ’ |
| 26 | , I mean it 's a lot easier to think of these things than it is for the other one , er , you would say , that was actually lazy bastard , but we did n't want to offend anybody , er , useless git , |
| 27 | People often say that a certain noise gets louder at night , even though its measured level does not alter ; this is because , at night , the level of the background noise is generally lower than it is during the day , During the recession , people near once noisy factories started to appreciate the quiet . |
| 28 | There was much sense in the American wish to see the Japanese economy functioning efficiently again , ‘ But in Canberra , Nanking , and Manila their conversion to innocence requires to be demonstrated more convincingly than it is by the optimistic hand-outs from General MacArthur 's headquarters . ’ |
| 29 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 30 | The concentration of salts in the blood of fresh-water fish is much higher than it is in the water surrounding them . |