Example sentences of "than it [vb -s] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most surveys show that a basket of food still costs a bit less at a supermarket than it does at an independent grocer 's ; but The Economist did not find that this week . |
| 2 | As Mr Cameron puts it , ‘ At the very time when most people want and need mobility — during the morning and evening peak periods — the system actually carries fewer of them than it does at various off-peak times . ’ |
| 3 | First , the dollar is still ‘ fundamentally undervalued ’ , and by quite a margin — that is , a dollar buys much less abroad than it does at home . |
| 4 | Hydro-electric power , though renewable , has a finite limit to its development potential unlike some of the other renewables and will never contribute a great deal more to world energy supply than it does at present . |
| 5 | Furthermore there will be other scholarship boys beside myself , and hopefully my intelligence will provoke less spite than it does at Marshside Junior . |
| 6 | This is a more generous protest even than it seems at first sight , for Jacob 's possessions include Esau 's birthright , and Isaac 's blessing that had been meant for him . |
| 7 | The debate about using readmission to measure quality of care is obviously much more complex than it seems at first sight . |
| 8 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 9 | Why tolerate the misery of unemployed people when , if given jobs on works of improvement , it would make a Britain with better services than it has at present ? |
| 10 | But the horizon no longer has any black skies , and it looks more forgiving than it has at any point until now . |
| 11 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |