Example sentences of "than it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This used to be a lot easier to do than it is now : for one thing , working in the profession means that you have to belong to the actors ' union , Equity . |
| 5 | Why this need to nudge the world into being other than it is ? he wrote . |
| 6 | In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries . |
| 7 | London is different to me than it is to you . |
| 8 | Over the next decade and beyond land use and access will become an even more central issue than it is now . |
| 9 | It is far easier to prevent behaviour problems from developing than it is to correct them once they have become entrenched habits . |
| 10 | John Bayley , after the remark quoted above , goes on to complain about ‘ the almost purely technical nature of this modern criticism , even more unsuited to how we actually respond to Dostoevsky than it is to most authors . ’ |
| 11 | However that may be , there are reasons for thinking that the abandonment of England , and of any hopes for her , was not much less momentous for Pound than it is for his English readers . |
| 12 | At the beginning of the year , however , the trend argument was much more plausible than it is today . |
| 13 | It now seems easier for Scots to get into a Great Britain senior team than it is to get into the Commonwealth Games team . |
| 14 | No sooner , it seems , has one prospective long-term partner been secured than it is ditched . |
| 15 | In March last year , moroever , the German currency was weaker than it is now . |
| 16 | Research and development should be taking a bigger priority in our public expenditure and within the private sector than it is even now . ’ |
| 17 | Bryan Gould , Labour 's trade and industry spokesman , has said that the industry may be renationalised at a lower price than it is sold for . |
| 18 | If a country has a current account deficit , then collectively it is spending more on things produced abroad than it is earning from abroad . |
| 19 | All this , I say , giving my gloss , can be read — and more particularly seen and heard , since Heseltine 's manner and presence carry their own conviction — as the utterance of a man demonstrating that he has been in the wilderness longer than it is in anyone 's interest . |
| 20 | A source close to Saatchi insists that there is ‘ absolutely no intention of dispersing the collection ’ and is equally adamant that ‘ the collection will be greater in five or 10 years time than it is now . ’ |
| 21 | A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down . |
| 22 | It may be hard to accept , but the argument goes that it is easier for a creative and original performer to learn how to play his instrument than it is for a consummate player to learn creativity . |
| 23 | At that time it was very much more of a family firm than it is now . |
| 24 | Their pre-school life is often more sheltered than it is for white children . |
| 25 | Cat-equipped two-litre 16-valve engine sounds even more potent than it is but gives good economy . |
| 26 | Because the majority of tiles are simply hooked on to the battens , it is easier to replace a slipped or broken tile with a new unit than it is to replace a nail-fixed tile . |
| 27 | This preliminary chat should be much higher on the agenda than it is in many salons . ’ |
| 28 | The story of the Polgars is therefore much more one of educational techniques , a unique and deliberate experiment in environmental conditioning , than it is of chess . |
| 29 | ‘ In my opinion the period from three to six is the most important and should be utilised much better than it is today . |
| 30 | Freedom of choice is no longer on the agenda , especially now that American Jews have discovered that it is easier to raise money for absorbing Soviet Jews in Israel than it is for resettling them in the US . |