Example sentences of "than it [be] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I take the view myself that when one has a person in advancing years , in some respects an impairment of movement may perhaps be more serious than it is with a younger person . |
| 2 | But also , look as those er , those short answers , now it 's important that you answer the short answer questions well alright , because it 's , it 's a lot easier to get good marks on a short answer question , providing you do it well , than it is on a long answer question . |
| 3 | Yes , I , I think really that 's why it 's a lot easier to read the time on an analogue display than it is on a digital display . |
| 4 | It is more difficult to trace the spatial patterning of central-government spending than it is at a local level . |
| 5 | The assumption is that it is much more difficult to assess the work of a public manager than it is of a private sector counterpart . |
| 6 | I must check those feelings which are the expression of physical instinct craving for satisfaction , but God knows celibacy is as painful to women ( even from the physical standpoint ) as it is to men — could not be more painful than it is to a woman . |
| 7 | It may be hard to accept , but the argument goes that it is easier for a creative and original performer to learn how to play his instrument than it is for a consummate player to learn creativity . |
| 8 | In fact social life in the evenings will be easier in every way for him to find than it is for a widow , who can not go out alone at night without some feeling of apprehension , and who would generally anyway feel out of place sitting on her own in a saloon bar . |
| 9 | ‘ No more unlikely , surely , for a girl from Darlington than it is for a boy from the East End of London ? ’ |
| 10 | I mean , we do n't stand still at this because what will seem a very good service this year will look like a lousy service in five years ' time so let's not pretend the fact that we have n't achieved everything we 've achieved this year in some previous years means that we have n't made any improvements because I think one of the key areas where in fact er improvements have been made in previous years , and to a certain extent , one could say reading this I was worried by an apparent admission of very much reference or very much expenditure on them in the provision of day centres , because I think that a key element in care in the community and the fact that today so successfully this year has been the fact that a major number of th and I do n't think there 's any disagreement over this , a number of day centres , very efficient and very effective day centres , were developed , funded , provided mainly in the conurbation areas and I think Mr is right to highlight the fact that , as so often happens in these instances , it 's people who live in conurbations who get the best deal because it 's , it 's more economical , it 's easier to provide a centre for a large number of people than it is for a small number of people . |
| 11 | Er it is er significantly further er via a southern bypass and an inner relief road than it is via a western relief road . |
| 12 | Precipitation is conducted to the nearest water course much more quickly in an urban area than it is in a natural drainage basin , so the building of a new town or the extension of an existing town can have a considerable effect on the rate at which the water level of a river rises after a storm . |
| 13 | Difficult to do when it 's in a real life situation believe me it 's harder to do in a real life situation than it is in a situation we 've got |
| 14 | It is true , too , that it is easier to harvest a large netful of bream from a river than it is from a stillwater . |
| 15 | In many ways the consulting arm of GROVE PROJECTS is stronger as a specialist engineering and surveying consultancy than it was as a multi-discipline practice . |
| 16 | These days line is , in some cases , less than half the diameter than it was for a given breaking strain . |