Example sentences of "than is [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Promoted nationally by ministerial circular in 1955 , approved belts now cover nearly 11 per cent of England , an area similar to that devoted to urban development , and greater than is covered by either National Parks or Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty . |
| 2 | As the foregoing brief chronology has demonstrated , which Councils have been recognized as ecumenical is far more arbitrary than is acknowledged by the bland words of the current Code . |
| 3 | The third way in which reliability might be breached is when , by judicious presentational techniques , a graph gives a more , or less , flattering view than is warranted by the underlying data . |
| 4 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 5 | ‘ The respondents were charged more than is warranted by the statute . |
| 6 | Care must be taken not to read more than is said into reports from others , particularly since the Regulations exclude access to the original report but a teacher 's use of it may be on the record . |
| 7 | The early structuralists analyse relations between larger elements of meaning than is entertained in structural linguistics . |
| 8 | ‘ In the life of any organisation , a centenary is a very considerable period of time , a good deal longer than is given to most of us . |
| 9 | If a profit is equivalent to surplus labour , then the capitalist , in keeping a larger share of the surplus than is given to the workers , is in effect ‘ stealing ’ from them , although what amounts to theft is written into an agreement and therefore not recognised as such . |
| 10 | It treats with scepticism the timber industry 's claims that developing countries receive valuable foreign earnings from their timber exports , and points out that European governments receive far more in taxes from the sale of tropical timber products than is given to developing countries in aid for forestry projects . |
| 11 | Thus , we would suggest that these second types of explanation for the differences in the rate of crime between men and women — that female crime exists to a much greater extent than is indicated by the statistics but is just less often recorded — can not explain the enormous sex differences in recorded rates of crime . |
| 12 | The question which had to be decided was ‘ whether we in England gain more through stimulating and rewarding the energy of the vigorous few by our voluntary system … than is lost through our failure to raise the general average of trained and disciplined efficiency by means of compulsory attendance for all ’ . |
| 13 | The main impact of blocking on the speed of skip-sequential processing is usually counter-productive , although it often achieves more in space-saving and rapid data transfer than is lost in increased block activity . |
| 14 | Sexual orientation towards the same or different gender is similarly something which a person learns rather than is born with . |
| 15 | On the one hand , tenure in top positions is normally limited through a more explicit contractual term of office than is employed in the private sector , and self-perpetuating oligarchies can not form . |
| 16 | Fred Gillett of the American science team says that despite the sun 's heat falling on IRAS , the satellite 's insulation is working so well that there is ‘ less heat going into the system than is radiated by the tip of my little finger ’ . |
| 17 | You actually see far more than is registered in your conscious mind — and this is probably a good thing . |
| 18 | To procure a steeper cut-off than is exhibited by the frequency responses of the simple C-R or L-R low and high-pass filters , further reactive components must be added to the network . |
| 19 | There is some evidence that the history of policing in England and Wales contains much more resort to the stick and fist than is recognized in the orthodox accounts . |
| 20 | If the obligor or feoffor pay a lesser sum either before the day or at another place than is limited by the condition , and the obligee or feoffee receiveth it , this is a good satisfaction . ’ |
| 21 | In short , the complexity of thought may be less than is assumed by AI-workers — and , moreover , may be of a very different type . |
| 22 | But green campaigns directed at the handling of solid waste sometimes go much further than is justified by the need to protect health , or even to prevent litter or damage to the landscape . |
| 23 | By exaggerating operating difficulties or temporary adverse market conditions , for instance , managers can shape board decision making , providing some leverage against the imposition of rigorous profit-maximising targets , or may attract funds for divisional growth to a greater extent than is justified by the profit potential . |
| 24 | The Scandinavians in general have a much more open view of sex and the problems associated with it and have a less punitive approach than is seen in other countries . |
| 25 | The data are based on a different population than is seen in British clinics but it provides quantitation of the degree of obesity in practice . |
| 26 | The premolar enlargement is greater than is seen in any other hominoid , living or fossil , except for the Moroto palate , which on this basis is also included in the Afropithecini . |
| 27 | Much more vigorous action than is provided for in the Bill is needed . |
| 28 | Whilst the potential here looks considerable , there is just a slight concern that initial reaction has been that medical audit requires a rather more in-depth review of each case than is provided by routine data collection approach . |
| 29 | We also need to consider the local and wider community and its various institutions — not least , the powerful influence of television , which for some children represents more hours of information intake than is provided by teachers during eleven years of compulsory education . |
| 30 | A wider coverage of contemporary — and specialized — vocabulary than is provided by any other learner 's dictionary . |