Example sentences of "than [pron] [is] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can now speak from experience and say that it 's much easier to spend a day at the office than it is to spend a day at home , and you have the benefit of spending ‘ quality time ’ with your baby at evenings and weekends . |
| 2 | We are used to thinking of ‘ femininity ’ as being something to do with women , when in fact it also represents a set of values or behaviour which are generally regarded with disapproval : to call a man ‘ effeminate ’ is generally to insult him ( rather more , perhaps , than it is to call a woman ‘ masculine ’ ) . |
| 3 | With some models , it is easier to produce a reasonable looking roll than it is to perform a truly round loop . |
| 4 | Because the majority of tiles are simply hooked on to the battens , it is easier to replace a slipped or broken tile with a new unit than it is to replace a nail-fixed tile . |
| 5 | It is far easier to characterize a madrigal by Morley than it is to sing a song by Byrd , partly because singers respond more intuitively and quickly to Morley 's text-illustrative music than to Byrd 's learned ( but still rhetorical ) polyphonic word-setting , partly because a Morley text will often be a chain of discrete moments where a Byrd text is more complex in syntax and in the connection of its ideas . |
| 6 | He revealed figures showing it is almost twice as expensive to house a family in bed and breakfast accommodation than it is to build a family home . |
| 7 | They 're very poor people , they may work in industries with hundreds and hundreds of small outlets , whether they 're workshops in people 's homes or hairdressing shops , and it 's much harder to organise that kind of person than it is to organise a factory worker in a big factory . |