Example sentences of "than is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I often say that nowhere in our empire — not even in the slums of Calcutta or Bombay — is there worse poverty than is to be found in the shadow of the mother of Parliaments . ’ |
| 2 | The attainment of the happy state of Utopia requires vastly more personal discipline and co-operation between peoples than is to be found in this late twentieth-century . |
| 3 | Delamont and Galton ( 1987 ) think that arts teachers may be attempting to overcome the low esteem in which their work is held by other teachers by adopting even more rigorous practices of pupil work assignment and evaluation than is to be observed in the practices of teachers in other areas of study thereby establishing their academic credibility . |
| 4 | He argued that ‘ experience is teaching us that medicine can keep some elderly people alive for longer than is of any benefit to them . ’ |
| 5 | for the same reason , it might be useful to provide a fuller account of rural development policy than is at present available in the WIIC 's planning documents or the various reports of the HIDB . |
| 6 | The desert has ways of showing , though , that exploitation is even more difficult than is at first apparent . |
| 7 | This would entail a view of nature as organic and ecological , rather than mechanistic ; an interpretation of lower forms of organisation in terms of higher ones , as well as vice versa ; an acknowledgment of sentience much further down the organisational ladder than is at present commonly imagined ; a biocentric ethic ; and a holistic approach to knowledge . |
| 8 | The rifts of the The Fairy Melusina are heavily overloaded with ore ; during the Pre-Raphaelite Period it was admired by certain critics , including Swinburne , who called it , ‘ a quiet , muscular serpent of a tale , with more vigour and venom than is at all usual in the efforts of the female pen , but without narrative thrust ; rather , as was Coleridge 's Serpent who figured the Imagination , with its tail stuffed in its own mouth . ’ |
| 9 | The effect of innovations such as TVEI and CPVE is likely to be more far-reaching than is at present possible to envisage . |
| 10 | There are many other examples where , readers may assume that much more can be done than is in fact the case . |
| 11 | Since men seldom underestimate their sexual prowess in discussion with one another , and since girlie magazines indulge in wild flights of sexual fantasy , he had gained the impression that a " natural " rate of sexual activity was far higher than is in fact the case . |
| 12 | As for his previous career , I do n't know any more than is in the book you saw , Crockford . |
| 13 | First , sub-divisions would only serve to create the appearance of a more precisely demarcated critical field than is in fact the case . |