Example sentences of "than it [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It plays with such ideas , to a Shavian pitch of exaggeration : but it is not a novel of ideas , any more than it is a heartless game . |
| 2 | The report that Eliot was eventually to say of The Waste Land that ‘ to me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life ’ is no more a licence to treat the poem as totally and unreservedly autobiographical than it is a conclusive estimate of its significance . |
| 3 | It may be the case — I hope it is — that Borg has always been a much happier man than he has seemed , and that his resumption of his old trade is more a matter of idle curiosity about himself than it is a neurotic search for lost identity . |
| 4 | It 's also a lot harder to be a rhythm player than it is a solo player , because anyone can make their fingers move really fast and play shitty solos . |
| 5 | There 's a theory being nurtured in certain quarters that Microsoft Corp Windows NT is less a strategic product than it is a dike against Unix and that Microsoft is trying to freeze the marketplace long enough to bring on Cairo , the Taligent Inc/Sun Microsystems Inc Project Distributed Objects Everywhere-like object-oriented environment it 's working on . |
| 6 | ‘ Truth to material ’ , like any other passionately held belief , can inspire good work , but it is no more a necessary than it is a sufficient condition , and Greek art is none the worse for being innocent of the notion . |
| 7 | Jenny Bianco , social services chairwoman , rejected the accusation : ‘ If you get a good service while paying less than it is a much better deal and more realistic than cutting services to save money . ’ |
| 8 | That was more of a fire engine book than it is a window cleaning book is n't it ? |
| 9 | The depiction of people and animals is far less common in the East than it is the West , and , despite the fact that vegetal and architectural forms are the heart of most motifs and designs , the oriental textile artist rarely portrays landscapes or figurative groups . |
| 10 | It is surely no more the function of the judiciary to tell the GLC where the public interest lay in its spending of public money than it is the function of the judiciary to make similar judgments about spending by the Departments of the central government . |
| 11 | That 's I mean that 's maybe more the fault of society than it is the fault of the of the man that 's involved . |
| 12 | Well it 's easier to recruit at the lower level than it is the upper |
| 13 | Rather than it 's a wi with more children was n't there this time ? |
| 14 | In this situation , research into the police could well become increasingly difficult and even less welcome than it was a decade ago . |
| 15 | ‘ The air is 15 per cent cleaner than it was a decade ago . |
| 16 | It is less ritualized than it was a hundred years ago , but it serves the same purpose of recognizing the event . |
| 17 | It is now much thicker and rumpier , and larger than it was a century ago . |
| 18 | It is a great deal more professional than it was a few years ago comparable with the standards of other types of consultancies and partnership firms , and is attracting an altogether higher quality of person than was previously the case . |
| 19 | ‘ The economy probably is better than it was a year ago , the computer retail business is strong and the general consumer electronics business at the present time seems to be running ahead of last year , ’ Roach said . |
| 20 | The state rightly claims that its unitary tax is far less onerous than it was a decade ago , and hints that it may soon limit unitary-tax treatment to a multinational company 's American profits . |
| 21 | The Greek merchant fleet is much smaller than it was a dozen years ago . |
| 22 | To this extent , we may consider society today to be healthier than it was a few decades ago . |
| 23 | As newspapers and television are always telling us , divorce is more common than it was a generation ago . |
| 24 | But it 's not all doom and gloom — the number of vacancies is higher than it was a year ago . ’ |
| 25 | Unemployment is rising in every European country except Spain , where it is nearly twice as high as it is here , and in every European Free Trade Association country , and in every G7 country it is higher than it was a year ago . |
| 26 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman is aware of the fact that unemployment has been rising in most European Community countries and that it is higher than it was a year ago in every EFTA and G7 country . |
| 27 | In fact , unemployment is rising in every member state of the European Community except Spain — where it is already nearly double our level — and in every member country of the European Free Trade Association , and it is higher today than it was a year ago in every G7 country . |
| 28 | In every EFTA and G7 country , unemployment is higher than it was a year ago . |
| 29 | Share My Lettuce was much more of a commercial success than it was a critical triumph . |
| 30 | Drawing on the results of 11 surveys , The Boxing Debate concludes there is no evidence to suggest boxing is any safer today than it was a decade ago when the BMA first called for a ban . |