Example sentences of "than it [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Wirral had no more reason to have such structures than it had for setting up multi-professional committees to discuss the dangers of residents keeping snakes as pets in council-owned properties . |
| 2 | The drought had not yet taken a stranglehold , although the landscape looked parched and drier than it had for years . |
| 3 | For Michael Codron , it marked the start of an outstanding production career — which had seemed to bode so ill for him during the run of The Wit To Woo , a play that had no happier associations for him than it had for Ken . |
| 4 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 5 | Like the reading of Samuel Smiles or the practice of other forms of ‘ self-help ’ and ‘ self-improvement ’ it replaced bourgeois success more often than it prepared for it . |
| 6 | So ESA is having to cough up rather more than it bargained for to insure the European communications satellite that , if all goes to plan , Ariane will place in orbit on its next launch in June . |
| 7 | But wherever she works , a woman-centred psychologist 's sex does not guarantee her feminism , any more than it does for an egalitarian feminist psychologist . |
| 8 | We may thus argue that /a/ functions for women as a network marker to a greater extent than it does for men ; by this we mean that there is for them a higher correlation between choice of variant and network structure , a tendency to select relatively backed variants being associated with higher levels of integration into the community . |
| 9 | ‘ And what happens if it lasts longer for one of us than it does for the other ? ’ |
| 10 | It is now clear that the presence of the wall causes the fluid viscosity to enter in a much more important way into the dynamics of turbulent motion than it does for free flows . |
| 11 | As an example , property insurance is cheaper than liability insurance , so that it makes more sense , for instance , for a site-owner to insure against the fire risk of a fire caused by an installer , under fire insurance , than it does for the installer to insure against liability for causing the same risk , under a public liability or contractor 's all risks policy . |
| 12 | that er normally lasts longer from Birmingham than it does for for here . |
| 13 | This , the DoI press office ruefully admits , is a better turn out than it normally-gets for a major announcement on government policy by a senior minister . |
| 14 | The basic idea can be captured in minutes and the total concept fully realised in , at most , a couple of hours , which is a lot faster than it takes for the same degree of finish to be achieved in any other medium . |
| 15 | This is only true if the image is projected for less time than it takes for the eye to move . |
| 16 | This is only true if the image is projected for less time than it takes for the eye to move . |
| 17 | The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat . |
| 18 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 19 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 20 | Time had a different significance for him and most of his contemporaries than it has for us . |
| 21 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
| 22 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 23 | The Pill has probably been even more liberating for men than it has for women , as men have to worry even less about contraception than they did before . |
| 24 | Unlike many other organisations , the Church usually gets much more than it pays for , thanks to the generosity of those who provide for its music . |
| 25 | For the top and intermediate Party leadership , Hitler 's image stood therefore in far closer relationship to reality than it did for the broad mass of the population . |
| 26 | He has a dynamic personality and musical discrimination , and without exception the orchestra played much better for him than it did for the ballet conductor , Viktor Fedotov . |
| 27 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |