Example sentences of "than it [be] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is more difficult to trace the spatial patterning of central-government spending than it is at a local level . |
| 2 | Barbed wire might well become more common than it is at the moment . |
| 3 | Further , discomfort is much more prevalent at the base of an organization than it is at the top , both physically and psychologically . |
| 4 | The result is bound to be that it will be far harder to acquire convictions in these cases than it is at the moment . |
| 5 | And irrationality is , 1 would argue , more firmly at the centre of Western , Christian , culture than it is at the centre of Islam . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This still means that the price of a packet of 20 cigarettes is now 50% higher than it was at the start of 1991 . |
| 9 | We experienced the operation of a principle widely applicable and perhaps more generally recognised now than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 10 | Teacher education is a smaller scale enterprise than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 11 | Yet at the same time — here is the Red Queen effect again — there is no general reason for expecting either side in the arms race to be any more successful at doing its job than it was at the beginning of the arms race . |
| 12 | The mathematics curriculum is much broader now than it was at the time of the 11+ . |
| 13 | In spite of the recent very regrettable rises in unemployment , in his constituency and in Sheffield as a whole unemployment remains a quarter lower than it was at the last election and a third below its peak in 1986 . |
| 14 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that in many parts of the Yorkshire and Humberside region unemployment is significantly lower than it was at the time of the previous election , and that what the regional CBI fears above all else is the havoc that would be caused by a Labour Government , with their commitment to a statutory minimum wage , which would wipe out so many jobs , and to the European Community social chapter , which would make British industry uncompetitive in world terms ? |
| 15 | UK consumption is around a third lower than it was at the beginning of this century . |
| 16 | Moreover , capacity utilization was considerably lower when the previous upswing had begun than it was at the start of the mini-boom of 1972–3 . |