Example sentences of "than it [verb] " 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 | We told the truth , the country deserved better than it got , and Labour would keep striving to create a country better in spirit and soul , he said , appealing for the party to retain in defeat the unity and vitality it showed in the campaign . |
| 11 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 12 | Professor Hurstfield has however inferred from the preamble that the government wanted something much more far-reaching than it got : nothing less than unlimited authority to legislate by proclamation . |
| 13 | Up front , United were never a force ; coming up one of their best efforts , which deserved more than it got . |
| 14 | What a turnaround for a Government which only a couple of years ago actually raised more money than it spent and was dedicated to not borrowing . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The ICAA has also organised many exhibitions , bringing Christian art to a far wider audience than it experienced previously . |
| 17 | Literature does not copy language any more than it copies reality . |
| 18 | Cash was flowing out quicker than it came in during 1930 and this led to the idea that a new racer could be built to earn the ‘ big money ’ at the National Air Races , where the winner had just taken $15,000 . |
| 19 | The Government claims National Health Service dentists overspent their budget last year by treating more patients than it 'd estimated . |
| 20 | His teaching was a challenge to Christians , more radical than it seemed : ‘ The state is there for man , not the other way round , the socialist order is there for man , not the other way round . ’ |
| 21 | The Arctic Ocean from this distance , about a metre from eyes to surface , is even more wonderful than it seemed in Tromsø . |
| 22 | And yet Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi argue pretty persuasively that the first invasion was more reasonable than it seemed , and that the second was caused by the first . |
| 23 | It turned out they had downclimbed , as it was easier than it seemed from above , but we did n't know that until later . |
| 24 | The machinery of employer reaction may have been rustier than it seemed to be . |
| 25 | As the Poets ' Garden , a decoration for the bedroom of the " poet Gauguin " was more than it seemed . |
| 26 | The recession , which had proved deeper and longer than predicted , made Bush 's own re-election less certain than it seemed at mid-year . |
| 27 | Even in Queen 's County , in the Great Heath of Maryborough , still technically in Leinster , they saw appalling signs of starvation — though it moved John far more than it seemed to move MacMinimum . |
| 28 | NO SOONER had the new organisation ‘ After Dark Railtours ’ sent off their advertisement for publication than it became necessary to cancel the operation . |
| 29 | Researchers working in the 1950s perhaps could be forgiven for not recognizing the importance of ethnicity in family relations , since Britain was a more monolithic society in ethnic terms than it became subsequently . |
| 30 | Perhaps the mightiest indoor rally ever held in Britain , Mosley had no sooner begun to speak than it became clear that organised Red gangs , each hundreds strong , were occupying positions in every part of the huge arena … with the sole intention of preventing the speech being heard . |