Example sentences of "than it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proposing ideas unfortunately provokes difficulties or objections more often than it wins support . |
| 2 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 3 | The stitching takes a long time and hurts Stig a lot more than it hurts the rest of us . |
| 4 | Gushing statements to the young person about how this is for their own good , or ‘ this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you ’ ( attitudes which are still prevalent ) are quite unhelpful , virtually damaging in fact . |
| 5 | Simon by then had heavily said , ‘ This hurts me more than it hurts you ’ to Pippa , and when the chaos was over Thomas began to laugh , for he had seen that the lash of the crop literally had curled round onto Simon 's back between each stroke , probably quite stingingly , though the man had been too excited to notice it . |
| 6 | The emigrants are predominantly young and skilled : Hong Kong is now losing more graduates each year than it produces . |
| 7 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |
| 8 | The heart of the economic matter is whether the government will insist on collecting more money than it spends , so that it can reduce the mountain of public debt that has piled up since 1980 ( see chart 1 ) . |
| 9 | But it can also be held to mean no more than it creates a presumption that , if there is a conflict between community and domestic law , any ambiguity in that domestic law will be resolved to give effect to our community obligations . |
| 10 | If you have a piece of pottery that you suspect is older or younger than it purports to be , you can have it tested by thermoluminescence for £80 . |
| 11 | Literature does not copy language any more than it copies reality . |
| 12 | Director Malcolm Sutherland , who had a major success with his adaptation of The Wasp Factory is plainly drawn to the wayward or the warped , but this play promises more than it delivers . |
| 13 | Fortunately , the electorate is far more observant and astute than it thinks . |
| 14 | the prison system has a tendency to create more problems than it receives and has an equal tendency to fail inmates because , out of its survival fear , it tends to respond to corporate threats , real or imaginary , rather than the real problems of inmates . |
| 15 | The fact that there is a surplus means that the public sector is spending less than it receives in taxes , etc . |
| 16 | The drug industry points out that either course could harm more people than it helps , particularly if thousands are benefiting from the treatment . |
| 17 | What is worse still , they start from a wholly inadequate skill base which hinders more than it helps by carving up approaches which should be integrated into arbitrary professional divisions called ‘ occupational therapy ’ , ‘ physiotherapy ’ and so on . |
| 18 | The criminal justice system , of course , now recognises this even more than it recognises our need for autonomy : monetary penalties are by far the most common form of penalty that it uses in its attempt to control crime . |
| 19 | In fact , English spelling abandons this principle more often than it keeps it . |
| 20 | It is rather Britain that has chosen the Italian road and opted for a one-party state that may soon have more difficulty in government than it imagines . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , modern nomenclature loses more than it gains . |
| 22 | Its part is written a perfect fifth higher than it plays and as long as its notes are on the stave it sounds well . |
| 23 | ‘ It suits me better than it suits him . ’ |
| 24 | Iago can take a stand with every appearance of confidence : Yet from that firm-sounding position he lapses into uncertainty — ‘ I speak not yet of proof ’ ( ironically true ! ) — but an uncertainty that suggests far more than it states , with its rash of words for perception and deception ( ‘ look ’ , ‘ observe ’ , ‘ wear your eye thus ’ , ‘ not … secure ’ , ‘ abused ’ , ‘ look ’ , ‘ know ’ , ‘ see … pranks ’ , ‘ show ’ , ‘ conscience ’ , ‘ keep't unknown ’ ) . |
| 25 | Admittedly , this last complaint , made at the very start of the chapter , is harsher than it sounds . |
| 26 | Reviews from the West Yorkshire Playhouse where the show was first seen last year suggest that it might be funnier than it sounds . |
| 27 | ASKING PIGS AND CHICKENS HOW THEY PREFER TO LIVE IS LESS FANTASTIC THAN IT SOUNDS . |
| 28 | A personnel specification is far easier to draw up than it sounds . |
| 29 | This may sound a silly question , since this book assumes that its readers are looking for a place to live in the British Isles , but it is more sensible than it sounds . |
| 30 | This is a good deal more difficult than it sounds , as small pieces of fluff and hairs always seem to appear from thin air by the million and float down on to the glass ! |