Example sentences of "it than " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might appear that the whole life of the later novel is in its sting , but there is more to it than sting . |
| 2 | However , there was more to it than that . |
| 3 | But there seems more to it than that ! |
| 4 | Some of them may be less careful with it than others so we need machines that can take a battering . |
| 5 | I would often rather read it than more conventional forms of literary scholarship . |
| 6 | Donald Davie , in a dispirited essay called ‘ Criticism and the Academy ’ , ruefully acknowledges that the belletrist criticism of men of letters such as Edmund Wilson and Cyril Connolly ( unequal figures , these , one has to remark ) might have more to be said for it than he , as a lifelong academic , would be happy to acknowledge : |
| 7 | Quite independent of Pound , most admiring commentators have read the poem more nearly as Pound read it than as Eliot intended . |
| 8 | Because Pound the critic seems to be always in his shirt-sleeves sparing a few distraught hours or minutes from the more serious business of writing poems or translating them , his criticism is dispersed , though there is much more of it than we are likely to remember . |
| 9 | But there is more to it than that . |
| 10 | She is , admittedly , pregnant at the time , but the problem with this familiar literary symbol is that it has rather more inside it than the play does . |
| 11 | There is more to it than tactics |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps in Bearsden or Newton Mearns , ’ he said , struggling to pronounce the names of two expensive Glasgow suburbs and yet making a better job of it than BBC newsreaders . |
| 13 | ‘ I think a lot more about it than people realise , ’ he says . |
| 14 | But there was more to it than that as Swansea soared from Fourth Division to First with only a season 's rest . |
| 15 | The third National Government , after the resignation of the Liberal ministers , was hardly a coalition — although again Marquand shows that the non-Conservatives retained more influence upon it than their numbers alone would suggest . |
| 16 | Immigration to Britain , a country of net emigration ( which means that more people emigrate from it than immigrate to it ) did not in itself throw up social problems but it served to highlight social deprivation . |
| 17 | Among young people , women seem to be more prone to it than men , while research shows that sufferers are generally of slim build and underweight . |
| 18 | But older men and women may be affected too , and evidence has shown that some races are more likely to have it than others . |
| 19 | There was more to it than that . |
| 20 | Some occupations are a better preparation for it than others , and journalism , fortunately , is a job that gets you used to taking what comes . |
| 21 | To take stock , to recharge his batteries , and there is no place on earth he would rather do it than in the Highlands of Scotland . |
| 22 | The architect Richard MacCormac said , ‘ I believe there is a danger that classicism is being used as a cure-all architectural pill , when architecture has got a lot more to it than just putting in columns and capitals . |
| 23 | The court , the judge said , had more material before it than did Mr Justice Henry . |
| 24 | They had known the effects of hyper-inflation and ‘ were more fearful of it than anything else ’ . |
| 25 | They had known the effects of hyper-inflation and ‘ were more fearful of it than anything else ’ . |
| 26 | Without sounding too clichéd about it , there should be more to it than that . |
| 27 | In 1956 , of course , the Conservative party was heading for one of the few post-war political events unequivocally more damaging to it than the current poll-tax furore — the Suez crisis . |
| 28 | Mr Reichardt 's admirers say that if any American banker knows how to lend to property developers it is he — he was once one himself — and where better to do it than California ? |
| 29 | How often I have watched , nay studied it , and wasted more honest words upon it than I can [ on ] most men ! … |
| 30 | This idea or nominal essence will vary from person to person ; goldsmiths know more properties of gold , and so have a different idea of it than does a child . |